AN IMPROVED METHOD OF READILY AND EFFECTUALLY SECURING TO SLIDING WINDOW SASHES PLATTED LINE OR OTHER MATERIAL, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Forster Meakin, of No. 84, Baker Street,
Portman Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF READILY AND EFFECTUALLY SECURING TO SLIDING
WINDOW SASHES PLATTED LINE OR OTHER MATERIAL, AND IN APPARATUS
THEREFOR."
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Sealed the 10th December 1872, and dated the 30th July 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Forster Meakin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th July 1872.
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I, JOHN FORSTER MEAKIN, of No. 84, Baker Street, Portman Square,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF READILY AND EFFECTUALLY SECURING
TO SLIDING WINDOW SASHES PLATTED LINE OR OTHER MATERIAL, AND IN
APPARATUS THEREFOR," to be as follows:-

page_text: be used, with a flange or tongue formed on same about half an inch wide
and with a small oval shaped slot hole near one end, see Fig. A on
Drawing. The tube is pierced from side to side in three or four places
in its length with small holes for pins, say of iron wire for strength.
The line being drawn into the tube, a finely pointed tool thrust into the
said holes will separate the fibre of the line without injuring it, and the
pins being inserted and cut level with the outside of the tube, the line
will be perfectly fixed; there being no room for it to expand or escape, it
will break anywhere rather than in the tube.
A metal pin, Fig. B, is made of an oval and tapered shape to fit the
slot hole in Fig. A, about one and three quarters of an inch long with an
oval shaped head made so as to be easily removed with the fingers.
The sash having been fitted while on the bench with its tube &
flange low enough down to allow room for the sash pulley, as shewn in
Figs. C and E, and a hole made in the side rail exactly opposite the slot
hole in the flange, it follows that when the requisite length of line is
attached to the weight and the tube fitted with the other end of the line
dropped into the groove prepared for it, see Fig. C, and the pin Fig. B
passed through the flange to cause a failure, cither the wood must give
way or the pin, or the line must break; but by using the best quality
patent thread line, known as No. 154, it will be found to bear a strain
far beyond the weight of any sash yet made, and the pin is less likely to
break than the line.
Fig. C also shews an end view of a sash fitted with its tube and line,
the top grooved for the sash pulley, Fig: D being a ground plan thereof
shewing its application to a two inch sash, and the dotted lines repre-
senting a two and a half inch sash.
Fig. E shews a front view of a sash with the tubular sash line holder
in section; the line by this plan is very close to the pulley stile, and the
oval headed pin comes so close to the bead as to be quite unobjection-
able.
By this arrangement one workman may put a new line into a sash in
a few minutes without distributing the beads or removing the sash, thus
avoiding the expense of the usual brass cups and screws or the annoyance
of rebrading & painting such beads as are fixed only with brads and can
seldom be removed without some injury.

page_text: Tubes may be made of diameters to suit various sizes of line or of
various shapes to suit other materials, such as chain, wire rope or band,
leather band, or the steel ribbon covered with copper wire, for each of
which this plan is applicable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Forster Meakin in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th December 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John
FORSTER MEAKIN, of No. 84, Baker Street, Portman Square, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said John Forster Meakin, Her special licence that
I the said John Forster Meakin, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Forster Meakin, 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 " AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF READILY AND EFFECTUALLY SECURING TO SLIDING WINDOW SASHES PLATTED
LINE OR OTHER MATERIAL, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Forster Meakin, 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.
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page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
Instead of the plan generally adopted I prepare a metal tube about
six or seven inches long, of an inner diameter suitable to the line
intended to be used, with a flange or tongue formed on same about half 5
an inch wide and with a small oval shaped slot hole see one end, see
Fig. A on Drawing. The tube is pierced from side to side in three or
four places in its length with small holes for pins, say of iron wire for
strength. The line being drawn into the tube, a finely pointed tool
thrust into the said holes will separate the fibre of the line without
injuring it, and the pins being inserted and cut level with the outside of
the tube, the line will be perfectly fixed; there being no room for it to
expand or escape, it will break anywhere rather than in the tube.
A metal pin, Fig. B, is made of an oval and tapered shape to fit the
slot hole in Fig. A, about one and three quarters of an inch long with an
oval shaped head made so as to be easily removed with the fingers.
The sash having been fitted while on the bench with its tube and
flange low enough down to allow room for the sash pulley, as shewn in
Figs. C and E, and a hole made in the side rail exactly opposite the slot
hole in the flange, it follows that when the requisite length of line is
attached to the weight and the tube fitted with the other end of the line
dropped into the groove prepared for it, see Fig. C, and the pin Fig. B
passed through the flange to cause a failure, either the wood must give
way or the pin or the line must break, but by using the best quality
patent thread line, known as No. 154, it will be found to bear a strain far
beyond the weight of any sash yet and the pin is less likely to break
than the line.
Fig. 6 also shews an end view of a sash fitted with its tube and line,
the top grooved for the sash pulley, Fig. D being a ground plan thercof
shewing its application to a two inch sash, and the dotted lines repre-
senting a two and a half inch sash.
Fig. 8 shews a front view of a sash with the tubular sash line holder
in section; the line by this plan is very close to the pulley stile, and the
oval headed pin comes so close to the bead as to be quite unobjection-
able.
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By this arrangement one workman may put a new line into a sash in
a few minutes without disturbing the beads or removing the sash, thus

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avoiding the expense of the usual brass cups and screws
annoyance of rebrading and painting such beads and can seldom be
removed without some injury.
Tubes may be made of diameters to suit various sizes of line, or of
various shapes to suit other materials, such as chain, wire rope or band,
leather bands, or the steel ribbon covered with copper wire, for each of
which this plan is applicable.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Forster Meakin, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
J. F. MEAKIN. (L.S.)