CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SASHES AND FRAMES
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Jonx
WHITING, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Architect, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Ninth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-seven, in the seventh year of His reign, did, for Himself, is heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Whiting, His especial
licence that I, the said John Whiting, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Whiting, my exors, adors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SASHES AND
FRAMES; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said John Whiting, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto bad, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Whiting, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention of a
window sash and frame is fully described, explained, and set forth in Drawing
and description, that is to say :-
Fig. 1 is a plan or horizontal section of the said stiles and sash frame.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the meeting bars of the sashes. A, the sash
frame. B, B, grooves for the weights. C, C, C, filletts screwed to the frame
A. D, D, grooves in the filletts C, C, C, for the cords or lines to work in,
which said cords or lines run on a wheel or pulley fixed near the top of the
sash frame A. E, E, sash stiles. F, F, metal filletts fixed in sash stiles E, E,
with eyes or tubes wherein the cords or lines are fixed, and slide between
the filletts C, C, C. G, G, Fig. 2, meeting bars of the sashes. H, H,
metal filletts or squares fixed on meeting bars G, G, to hold the sashes
together when closed, and to keep out the external air.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Whiting, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
NOTCUTT, Extra.
JOHN (L.B.) WHITING.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1827, the aforesaid John Whiting came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand