A SUN SHADE FOR THE OUTSIDE OF WINDOWS, ON A PRINCIPLE ENTIRELY NEW, AND WHICH MAY BE VERY USEFUL TO HIS MAJESTIE'S SUBJECTS
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DAWES, of Dean Street, Soho, Upholder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by lis
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Sixteenth day of July, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, did give unto me,
the said Thomas Dawes, His especial licence that I, the said Thomas Dawes,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A SUN SHADE FOR THE OUTSIDE OF WINDOWS, ON A
PRINCIPLE ENTIRELY NEW, AND WHICH MAY BE VERY USEFUL TO HIS MAJESTIE'S
SUBJECTS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Thomas Dawes, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month next after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the said proviso, I, the said Thomas
Dawes, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Sun Shade for the

page_text: Outside of Windows is made with the top of wood, either circular, oval,
square, or of any other shape, with box, brass, or any other kind of holes,
pulleys or rollers, staples, eyes, or any other thing that will guide the line,
tape, thread, or any other kind of string; they are covered with duck, canvass,
ticking, or any other thing painted or not painted, with a curtain of duck,
canvass, silk, stuff, or any other material, with an iron, brass, or any other
metal or wood rod at bottom, with rings, ows, or any other thing for the rods
and lines to pass through, and are made as described in the Plan thereof
herein drawn and hereafter mentioned (that is to say):-
For one, a direct circle, mark out the size of the circle on a board, and lay
down the wood, two inches and an half wide and one inch thick, to that
circle. Then cut out another circle one inch and an half wide and one inch
thick, and glue and nail it on the first, breaking the joints to strengthen it.
Then fix the box holes, four or five, or as many as it may require, round the
circle, and at the corner where the lines come one box hole, staple, pulley, or
roller large enough for all the lines to pass through, with a row of dows from
every box hole down the curtain to the rod at the bottom, which is made
circular to clear the facie, directed by an eye made at each end passing up and
down a straight rod of wood, brass, or iron, or any other thing, so that the
curtain goes up and down easy; and confined by rings which are sewed on
each edge of the curtain three inches apart, which, as the circular rod raises,
confines the curtain to small pleats so as to come under the facie which is
fixt in front, made of wood, tin, or any other thing bent to the circle, about
eight inches deep, the top hanging over it about three quarters of an inch, the
facie being fixed in a rabbit prepared in the first making of the top. The top
is made about one inch and an half higher at the back than the front for a
descent for rain or wet to run off, and is covered with duck, canvass, or any
other thing, painted or not painted. The straight rods on each side are fixt at
top by a center-bit hole the size of the rod, and at the bottom by an iron
plate made to project just enough to clear the circular rod from rubbing as it
goes up and down, which iron plate is fixt to the frame that supports the blind,
being wood, and two inches wide and one inch and a quarter thick, with a rail
framed into it just the height of the bar of the top of the bottom sash, the
two sides coming down about nine inches below the stick that guides the rod
and curtain, and are fastened by screws to the sides of the frame of the
window. The top part is fastened by two pins raising one inch and an half, or
as much as makes them an equal height with the center of the top, which are
put through two screw eyes, staples, or anything to keep them steady at the
top; when all is fixt, the curtain is let down and drawn up at pleasure. They

page_text: may be made of different sizes, and if oval, square, or of any other shape, in
all other respects after the manner-herein described, as-to-the-one, a direct
circle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Dawes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.