CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FOLDING SHUTTERS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Goddard, of No. 11, Spring Place, St.
Peter's Road, Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex, Builder,
for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FOLDING SHUTTERS."
Sealed the 5th June 1866, and dated the 11th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Goddard at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th December 1865.
I, JOHN GODDARD, of No. 11, Spring Place, St. Peter's Road,
Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex, Builder, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF FOLDING SHUTTERS," to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists of improvements in folding shutters for window or
other openings by forming them of flaps placed horizontally of suitable
width and thickness, either of wood, iron, steel, or other suitable material,
and connecting them together by means of loose hinges probably of the
kind known as back flap hinges, but any other suitable hinges may be
used, and by attaching or inserting a spring or a series of springs (as the
length of the flaps may require) to the edges or sides of the flaps, to cause
them to fold on to each other as they enter a receptacle prepared for them
below the opening, to be closed by the flaps. The shutters for small.

page_text: openings, and openings up to about 50 feet area, or of any size I consider
desirable, I would prefer to hang in the ordinary way of hanging sashes,
by lines, weights, and pulleys, but the shutters for large openings I would
prefer to raise and lower by means of a suitable winding apparatus. The
joints of the flaps may be of any section suitable for excluding light, or
where greater security is desired, grooved and tongue-jointed, the tongues
for which purpose may be made of iron, steel, or other suitable material, or
either or both sides of the flaps may be lined with the same or other suitable
material. The face of the flaps may be of a plane surface or pannelled or
moulded to any design preferred consistent with the method of folding on
to each other. The frames for the shutters, weights, pullies, and other
parts may be attached to or form part of the window or other frames
(as the case may require). A thumbscrew, flush bolt, or other suitable
fastening may be used to keep the shutters in their position when either
up or down.
SPECIFICATION in. pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Goddard in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GODDARD, of No. 11, Spring Place, St. Peter's Road, Hammersmith, in
the County of Middlesex, Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said John Goddard, Her special licence that I, the
said John Goddard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Goddard, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FOLDING SHUTTERS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Goddard,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Goddard, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):
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My Invention consists of improvements in folding shutters for window
or other openings as set forth in the Provisional Specification, and more
fully described by the annexed
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a section of a window with frame for sashes and shutters
I combined with receptacle below the cill of frame to receive the shutters,
shewing the position the shutters assume when they are partly up and
partly down; Figure 2 is an elevation of the same, shewing the shutters
partly raised; Figure 3, a plan of the window; Figure 4, a section of the
shutters shewing the method I prefer of jointing the flaps forming a V-joint
on each face, the dotted lines at C, C, C, C, shew the hinges and likewise the
screws to attach the hinges to the flaps. (A) shewing the springs after
having been bent to assume and tempered to retain the form shewn at
Figure 5. (B, B,) Figure 4, is a socket or two strips of zinc or other hard
material to keep the springs from wearing the wood. (A) at Figures 1,
6, and 7 shew a wheel attached to the pulley stiles on each side of the
window in the manner shewn at Figure 7, (the screws to act as an axle
for the wheel to revolve on,) to cause the flaps to enter the groove in the
upper part of the frame. (B), Figure 7, is a part section of the pulley stiles.
(a, a,) Figure 8, shews a part of the face of two flaps. (B, B,) are clamps
of hard wood fixed to the ends of the flaps to keep them straight on the
face, and also to fix the hinges C, C, to. The capping (B), Figures 1 and 2,
may be fixed to the top of the shutters as shewn, or hang as a flap to the
window back (as is usual to hanging shutters).
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner it is to be performed, I do not confine myself to the exact details
herein described, as they are susceptible of considerable modification without
injuring their efficiency; but that which I claim and desire to have secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improve-

page_text: ments in the manufacture of shutters by forming them of flaps of any
suit-
able width and thickness, and of any suitable material, and by attaching
or inserting a spring or a series of springs to cause the sail flaps to fold on
to each other as they enter the receptacle prepared for them below the
opening to be closed by the said flaps as herein described and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Goddard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
JOHN GODDARD. (L.S.)