Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 18th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 20th Dec., 1887
I ARTHUR WELLS of 8 Wightman Road Hornsey in the County of Middlesex
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A hinged revolving wood shutter the hinges being made and connected with steel
iron Brass or copper wire bent to suit any kind of wood-shutter-lath, fitted together,
each length of wire being connected by a steel iron Brass or copper pin and let into
wood laths and securely fastened with screws the top edge of wire acting as counter-
sink for the head of screw.

page_text: Wood Shutters.
L, ARTHUR WELLS, of 8 Wightman Road, Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
According to this invention I construct a revolving wood shutter with its hinges
made of bent wire let into the wood laths and securely fastened with screws the heads
of the screws being made to overlap the wires (which act as countersinks) and thereby
retain the wires in the recesses in the laths.
The drawings annexed shew examples of revolving wood shutters constructed as
above described.
Figure 1 shews a back view of one of the chains of links which form the hinges of
the shutter.
Figure 2 is a section through these hinge joints.
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views of a construction in which a modified way of
forming the hinges from wire is adopted.
Each wooden lath A has a recess B cut across wherever it is to be secured to one
or other of the chain links of the chains by which the several laths of the shutter are
to be jointed together.
Into the recess B is inserted a wire link C. In Figure 1 each link is shown to be
formed in two parts each composed of a wire bent to the form shown at Figures 5
and 6. D D are wood screws by which the two parts of the link are held-they
overlap and come between the wires and press them away from one another against
the side edges of the recess cut across the lath.
EE are pins which connect the ends of adjoining links-they are embraced by the
circular bends or loops formed at the ends of the links, and are formed with a head at
each end which prevents them from slipping out from the bends.
In Figure 3 each link is composed of one piece of wire bent to the form shewn and
it is retained within the recess in the lath by the heads of wood screws just in the
same way as the two parts of the hinge are retained in Figures 1 and 2.
I do not restrict myself to forming the hinges of wire they might be otherwise
formed so long as the two sides of the portion of the hinge which lies within the
recess B are capable of being forced apart by the heads of the screws D against the
sides of the recess and thereby fixed securely to the lath-nor do I restrict myself to
the use of hinges constructed in the two forms shewn in the drawing as they might

page_text: be of other forms and be similarly let into recesses in the laths and be retained therein
by their being overlapped by the heads of screws screwed into the laths.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. A revolving wood shutter composed of laths jointed together by hinges let into
recesses in the laths and so made that their side edges may be forced apart and made
to bear against the sides of the recesses by the heads of screws which also overlap
them substantially as described.
2. A revolving wood shutter composed of laths jointed together by hinges formed
of wire let into recessos in the laths and retained therein by their being overlapped
by the heads of screws screwed into the laths.
3. The construction of revolving wood shutters substantially as herein before
described and illustrated at Figures 1 and 2.
4. The construction of revolving wood shutters substantially as herein before
described and illustrated at Figures 3 and 4.
Dated this 14th day of November 1887.