A CERTAIN NEW APPARATUS TO ACT AS A UNIVERSAL LOCK OR BOLT FOR FASTENING DOORS OR OPENINGS. OF. ALL KINDS WHATSOEVER, AND WHICH APPARATUS; IS SO. CONSTRUCTED AS TO RENDER IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY PERSON EITHER TO PICK OR OPEN THE SAME, UNLESS THEY HAVE THE KEY THEREUNTO BELONG- ING, THE WHOLE OF WHICH BRING UPON A PRINCIPLE NEW AND ADVANTAGEOUS
Year: 1779

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HENRYS SPECIFICATION.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SOLOMON
HENRY, of Swithin's Lane, in the City of. London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King, George the Third did, by His.
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-
eighth day of May, in the nineteenth year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said Solomon Henry, His especial licence that I, the said Solomon Henry,
during the term of years, therein expressed, should, and lawfully might make,.
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN NEW APPARATUS TO ACT AS A UNIVERSAL
LOCK OR BOLT FOR FASTENING DOORS OR OPENINGS. OF. ALL KINDS WHATSOEVER, AND
WHICH APPARATUS; IS SO. CONSTRUCTED AS TO RENDER IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY PERSON
EITHER TO PICK OR OPEN THE SAME, UNLESS THEY HAVE THE KEY THEREUNTO BELONG-
ING, THE WHOLE OF WHICH BRING UPON A PRINCIPLE NEW AND ADVANTAGEOUS;"
in which, said Letters Patent; there is contained a proviso, obliging me the
said Solomon Henry, 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 Majesty's High. Court of Chancery within four calendar
months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Solomon Henry, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Certain
New Apparatus. to act as a Universal Lock or Bolt for Fastening Doors or
Openings of all Kinds, whatsoever, and which Apparatus is so contrived as
to render it impossible for any Person either to Pick or Open the same, unless
they have, the Key thereunto belonging (the Whole of which being on a

page_text: Principle New and Advantageous), and far more secure than any hitherto
made, is described in the following manner, that is to say :-
An improvement in the wards which are so contrived as to render abortive
every attempt to pick or open them, without the key thereunto belonging
as above mentioned. The bolts in all other locks and bolts are not sufficiently
guarded; the wards being open, plain, and regular, may be discovered and easily
passed with falsekeys, but the wards of these locks and bolts (upper and under)
cover each other and thereby and by means of an irregular ratchet serpentine
ward (as Figure marked No..5) B and F in the margin) prevent picklock keys
or other instruments from passing of them, and no direction of them whatever
can be taken by smoaking a blank, as is the case with all other locks and
bolts, and they differ totally from the wards in all other locks and bolts in
their beginnings and terminations, as Figure marked letter F, No. 5.
There is also a pipe, so contrived, that by having a piece of leather or other
substance fixed in it, if any person should put in a smoak blank it would be
defaced, so that the taking a direction of the wards will be from that reason
impossible. They are opened and shut by keys, the bits of which turning into
their shank, as Figures marked No. 8 and 10, by means of a slider or spring)
pass them into the pipe into locks of any form as Figures a, a, a, a, a, a,
No. 9, and which render ineffectual any picklock or other keys or instru-
ments, at the same time that they are more portable and lay in a smaller com-
pass than any yet contrived. Should an attempt be made to pick these locks.
or bolts, such attempt may easily be discovered from a ball, which is put in at
the pipe of the lock or bolt, and which when a picklock key or other instru-
ment for opening of locks or bolts is applied, immediately falls back into a
receiver, appropriated for that purpose, and fixed upon the back or at the
bottom of the locks or bolts as Figure marked No. 4 (a) No. 7 (c).
These locks are also so formed as to be fitted to the middle of any door,
and will shoot as many bolts from the center as may be wanted, up, down,
and across the door, and thereby will render greater security than other locks
heretofore made could, as more fully appears by the several plans in the
margin hereof. Locks and bolts upon this construction may be made of the
mortice kind, and of all other sorts of every shape and size, and to suit
bureaus, writing-desks, drawers, tills, iron chests, cupboards, warehouse doors,
cabinets, and all other doors and openings of all kinds whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I, the said Solomon Henry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of September, One thousand
seven hundred and seventy-nine.
GARA
SOLO. HENNI..(L.B.).

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of
September, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Solomon Henry came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of their late
Majestys King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year last above