IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SAPES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Shaw, of Attercliffe, near Sheffield, in the
County of York, Pawnbroker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WINDOW SAPES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY."
Sealed the 1st August 1865, and dated the 6th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Shaw at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th February
1865.
I, ROBERT SHAW, of Attercliffe, near Sheffield, in the County of York,
Pawnbroker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SAPES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY," to be
as follows:-
This Invention relates more especially to the shop windows of jewellers,
pawnbrokers, and others exposing valuable property for sale, and consists in
fixing to the inside of the window frame a framework of iron or steel, or iron
and steel, having grooves in the sides, and a recess at the top or bottom, and
having a sliding door which can be below the floor, or above the ceiling, or
at the side when the window is not required to be secured, but is brought
into the grooves and recess when the window has to be made fast and
secure.
In one arrangement I fix two or more iron racks on the door, and work
them and the door up and down or to and fro by pinions turned by a worm
and worm wheel and handle, and in some cases the door may be moved by
weights and chains, but in all cases I use bolts to keep the door fast when it
has been placed in its right position.

page_text: The aforesaid safety door prevents the entrance from the outside, and when
another similar door is placed in a recess and grooves in the inside of the
window and made fast, the contents of the window are secured from the inside
of the shop.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Shaw in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the
4th August 1865.
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TO ALL TO WHOM. THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
SHAW, of Attercliffe, near Sheffield, in the County of York, Pawnbroker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen. Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of February, in the year. of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of .Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Shaw, Her special license that I, the said Robert Shaw,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Robert Shaw, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WINDOW SAFES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Shaw, 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 Robert Shaw, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):―
This Invention relates more especially to the shop windows of jewellers, pawn-
brokers, and others exposing valuable property for sale, and consists in fixing
to the inside of the window frame a framework of iron or steel, or iron and
steel, with grooves in the sides, and one or two recesses at the top or bottom,
and having one or two sliding doors which can be below the floor or above

page_text: the ceiling, or at the side or sides when the window is not required to be
secured, but brought into the grooves and recess or recesses when the window
has to be made fast and secure.
In one arrangement I fix racks on the doors, and work them up and down
by pinions turned by a worm and worm wheel and handle, and for each door
I use bolts to keep it fast when it has been placed in its right position. With
one safety door the entrance from the outside is prevented, and when another
similar door is placed further back in the inside of the window and both doors
made fast the contents of the window are secured.
These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side
view of a metal framework having two sliding doors and one mode of working
them, and Fig. 2 an end view with one of the sides removed.
The framework has two sides or frames a, b, in which work two doors
c, d, the door c being just inside the window, and the door d some distance
behind it, according to the size required. To the doors are fixed racks e
gearing into pinions f on the shaft g, carrying the worm wheel h gearing into
the worm i on the shaft k, having a bevil wheel gearing into the bevil
wheel m on the shaft n, to which is fixed the handle o, and as the handle is
turned one way or the other the doors are raised or lowered as required.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I desire it to be
understood that in window safes for the protection of property I claim the
metal framework with one or two sliding doors, and mode of raising them up
and down, as all such improvements are herein described and illustrated in
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Shaw, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named Robert
Shaw, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.
ROBERT SHAW. (L.S.)