IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MECHANISM USED FOR WORKING VENETIAN BLINDS AND ARTICLES OF SUCH LIKE CHARACTER
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hatton, of Southport, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MECHANISM
USED FOR WORKING VENETIAN BLINDS AND ARTICLES OF SUCH LIKE
CHARACTER."
Sealed the 24th March 1871, and dated the 2nd November-1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hatton at the
. Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd November 1870.
I, GEORGE HATTON, of Southport, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MECHANISM USED FOR WORKING VENETIAN BLINDS AND ARTICLES OF SUCH
LIKE CHARACTER," to be as follows :—
This mechanism consists in an improved stop action for biting the cord
working Venetian and articles having the same kind of arrangements.
applied thereto..
The said improved action is made in the form of a clip which works.
in a centre with a sharp edge to bite the cord,, the said clip being

page_text: secured in a strap or frame which is fixed in the top bar from which the
blind is suspended and through this frame and over the top of the clip
the cords for raising and lowering the blind pass. The clip may be
made in more parts than one if desired. Attached to the back of the
clip there is a cord which passed through an orifice in the top bar used 5
for suspending the Venetian blind. By acting on the cord the action
will take place.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Hatton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd May 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HATTON, of Southport, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Hatton, Her special licence.
that I, the said George Hatton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Hatton, 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
THE MECHANISM USED FOR WORKING VENETIAN BLINDS AND ARTICLES OF SUCH
LIKE CHARACTER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
George Hatton, 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.
1
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hatton, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: Mechanism used for Working Venetian Blinds and Articles of such like
Character" consisting in the arrangements of stop-action clips, herein-
before described and illustrated by the Drawings accompanying these
Presents, it being understood that I do, not limit myself to the use of,
nor do I claim the mere constituent details of such arrangements per sc
and without regard to their disposition in such arrangements of
mechanism as have been herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hatton, have hereunto set
my hand, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one..
Witness,
BENJAMIN BOOTHROYD,
Talbot Street,
Southport.,
GEORGE HATTON. (L.S.)