Ar IMPROVED CURTAIN OR SCREEN FOR SEPARATING THE STAGE FROM THE AUDIENCE PART IN THEATRES AND MUSIC HALLS IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE SPREADING OF FIRE, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER BUILDINGS WHERE IT IS DESIRED TO PREVENT THE SPREADING OF FIRE FROM ONE PART OF THE BUILDING TO ANOTHER PART
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Adam Young, of Eagle Street, Red Lion,
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Surveyor, for the Invention of "Ar
IMPROVED CURTAIN OR SCREEN FOR SEPARATING THE STAGE FROM THE AUDIENCE
PART IN THEATRES AND MUSIC HALLS IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE SPREADING
OF FIRE, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER BUILDINGS WHERE IT IS DESIRED TO
PREVENT THE SPREADING OF FIRE FROM ONE PART OF THE BUILDING TO ANOTHER
PART."
Sealed the 5th May 1868, and dated the 12th December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Adam Young at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th December 1867.
I, GEORGE ADAM YOUNG, of Eagle Street, Red Lion Square, in the County
of Middlesex, Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED CURTAIN OR SCREEN FOR SEPARATING THE STAGE FROM THE
AUDIENCE PART IN THEATRES AND MUSIC HALLS IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE.
SPREADING OF FIRE, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER BUILDINGS WHERE IT IS DESIRED
TO PREVENT THE SPREADING OF FIRE FROM ONE PART OF THE BUILDING TO ANOTHER.
PART," to be as follows:-
.My. Invention consists in constructing a curtain or screen of wire gauze.
with fine meshes, which is by preference fitted on a roller so as to be. rolled.

page_text: up and unrolled as ordinary blinds or stage curtains. Or in some cases in
place of rolling the curtain or screen on a roller I make the same in sections
arranged to slide up and down against each other by means of lines and
pulleys with or without balance weights. Or the curtain or screen may be
constructed in strips hinged together, and made to fold up backwards and
forwards. Or again such curtains or screens may be strained over a stiff
framework similar to doors arranged either to swing upon hinges or to slide
nnon rollers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Adam Young in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st June 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ADAM YOUNG, of Eagle Street, Red. Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Adam Young, Her special licence that I, the said George
Adam Young, ny executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said George Adam Young, 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 CURTAIN
OR SCREEN FOR SEPARATING THE STAGE FROM THE AUDIENCE PART IN THEATRES
AND MUSIC HALLS IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE SPREADING OF FIRE, ALSO APPLICABLE
TO OTHER BUILDINGS. WHERE IT IS DESIRED TO PREVENT THE SPREADING OF FIRE
FROM ONE PART OF THE. BUILDING TO ANOTHER, PART," upon, the condition
(amongst others) that me, the said George Adam: Young, my executors or
administrators, by. an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one.
of their hands and seals, should particularly, describe andı ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what. manner, the, same was to be per-
formed, 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
Detent

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Adam Young, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing a curtain or screen of wire gauze
with fine meshes, which is by preference fitted on a roller so as to be rolled
up and unrolled as ordinary blinds or stage curtains. Or in some cases in
place of rolling the curtain or screen on a roller I make the same in sections
arranged to slide up and down against each other by means of lines and pulleys
with or without balance weights. Or such curtain or screen may be constructed
in strips hinged together, and made to fold up backwards and forwards. Or
again such curtains or screens may be strained over a stiff framework similar
to doors arranged either to swing upon hinges or to slide upon rollers. Two
or more such before-described improved curtains or screens may, if required,
for greater safety be arranged one behind the other with spaces inter-
vening.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I am aware that
wire gauze screens have been employed in front of fire-places to act as a fire-
guard, and I therefore in no way claim such application; but what I claim is,
the use of a wire gauze curtain or curtains or screens for separating the stage
from the auditorium in theatres and music halls, and for separating one part of
any building from another part, to prevent the spreading of fire, substantially
as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Adam Young, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.