AN IMPROVED SASH FASTENER
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Ward, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brass Founder, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SASH
FASTENER."
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Sealed the 21st September 1875, and dated the 24th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Ward at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th March 1875.
I, Arthur WaRD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass
Founder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED SASH FASTENER," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to produce a sash fastener which shall
be simple in its construction, and at the same time be capable of more
securely locking or securing the two sashes of the window to which it
may be applied than can be done by the ordinary spring fastening in
common use.
My improved fastening consists substantially of the following arrange-.
ment of parts: A back plate is screwed to or otherwise permanently

page_text: attached to one of the sashes desired to be secured. One end of a
moveable arm is fitted to the said back plate by a pin in such manner
that the said pin may form an axis upon which the said arm may rotate,
the other or free end being provided with a worm upon which is caused
to screw a projection or knob, by means of which the two sashes are
held securely together, as herein-after explained.
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The front plate of my improved fastening is fitted with a metal
upright which has, by preference, an angular inclination towards the
before-named back plate, and in this metal upright is cut a slot which is
for the reception therein of the moveable arm of the back plate when
desired, the securing of the two sashes being then completely effected by
the projection or knob at the extremity of the free end of the arm before
spoken of, being screwed down upon the outer surface of the said metal
upright. A most secure fastening is thus afforded, the two sashes are
held together in close proximity, and thus all shaking or rattling of the
said sashes is prevented and the fastening cannot be interfered with from
the outside of the window by a knife or other means without the
necessity of first breaking the glass.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Arthur Ward in the Great Seal Patent Office on g
the 22nd September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
WARD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her a
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Ward, Her special
licence that I, the said Arthur Ward, my executors, administrators, a
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur Ward, 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,

page_text: within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED SASH FASTENER,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Ward, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
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 Arthur Ward, 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 :-
The object of this Invention is to produce a sash fastener which shall
be simple in its construction, and at the same time be capable of more
securely locking or securing the two sashes of the window to which it
may be applied than can be done by the ordinary spring fastening in
common use.
My improved fastening consists substantially of the following arrange-
ments of parts:-A back plate is screwed to or otherwise permanently
attached to one of the sashes desired to be secured. One end of a move-
able arm is fitted to the said back plate by a pin in such manner that
the said pin may form an axis upon which the said arm may rotate, the
other or free end being provided with a worm upon which is caused to
screw a projection or knob by means of which the two sashes are held
securely together, as herein-after explained.
The front plate of my improved fastening is fitted with a metal
upright which has by preference an angular inclination towards the
before-named back plate, and in this metal upright is cut a slot which is
for the reception therein of the moveable arm of the back plate when
desired, the securing of the two sashes being then completely effected by
the projection or knob at the extremity of the free end of the arm before
spoken of being screwed down upon the outer surface of the said metal
upright. A most secure fastening is thus afforded, the two sashes are
held together in close proximity, and thus all shaking or rattling of the
said sashes is prevented, and the fastening cannot be interfered with

page_text: from the outside of the window by a knife or other means without the
necessity of first breaking the glass.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature and
object of my said Invention, I declare that what I claim and desire to
be secured by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, the
improved sash fastener, substantially as herein-before described, or any
mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Ward, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of September, in the year
of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
ARTHUR WARD. (L.S.)
THOMAS KENDRICK.