A WINDOW SHUTTER
Year: 1818

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WHITING, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of December,
in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John,
Whiting, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said John Whiting, my exors, aditors, and
assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A WINDOW SHUTTER;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said John Whiting,.
shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing.
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Whiting, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is 'to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in the following description thereof (that is to say), I, the
said John Whiting, do 'hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention
of a shutter or blind to roll or fold on an axle fixed in an horizontal direction
at the top or bottom of a window, door; or aperture is fully described,
explained, and sett forth in the Drawing and description annexed :-
Figure 1 is a plan. A is the thickness of the said shutter or blind; B, the
perpendicular grove for the shutter or blind to run or move up and down in;
C is the sash frame; D, the wall.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the said shutter or blind. a, a, a, a, are slips of
wood rebated or groved together, and fixed to each other by means of hinges
of iron or any other substance fixed on the face or on the ends, or on both face
and ends, of the said slips. The slips are in most cases made of wood, but
may be of iron, copper, brass, tin, or any other, fit material or substance.
Figure 3 is a section of the said shutter or blind. B, B, B, the slips, or
part of the said shutter or blind; C is the perpendicular grove for the
shutter or blind to move or slide up and down in, which grove is usually
made of wood, but may be made of iron or any other fitt material; and
although the shutters or blinds mostly move in groves, yet they may move on
tongues of wood or iron, or any other fit material. These groves or tongues
may be fixed to the window frame, or to the brick; stone, or wood jambs of the
window or door opening. D is the axle, on which the shutter or blind roll;
E; the wheel fixed to the axle. D; F, the cord, rope; chain, or strap, fixed to the
wheel E; G the barrel or windlass on which the cord, rope, chain, or strap wind
or unwind when the crank His turned to open or close the shutter or blind.
Figure 4 is a section which represents and a part of the said shutter or blind,
and; a method of hinging the slips together, which form the said shutter or
blind, for the purpose of making them open or shut, as Venetian blinds do, to
give air or light to the room; if required.
And I do also further declare that in my said Invention I claim no exclusive
right to the machinery used for rolling or unrolling, or raising or lowering my
new invented shutter or blind, as that object may be effected by any of the
usual combinations of the machine powers, or the weight of the shutter or
blind may,
be kept in equilibrium at any part of their ascent or decent, by.
means of a counterbalance, weight acting over a spiril or otherwise, according
to the situation of the place or the intention of the maker; my Invention
simply consisting in a window shutter or blind composed of horizontal slips of

page_text: wood or any other suitable material connected together by any kind of joints
that will admit of their opening and shutting as Venetian blinds, and folding or
rolling on an horizontal axis placed at the top or bottom of the window for
that purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Whiting, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninetcen.