IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLIND FURNITURE
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Edwards, of No. 77, Aldermanbury, London,
and Thomas Newey, of No. 70, Navigation Street, Birmingham, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLIND FURNITURE."
led tho 11th January 1859, and dated the 13th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Edwards and
Thomas Newey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Potition, on the 13th July 1858.
We, JOHN EDWARDS, of No. 77, Aldermanbury, London, and THOMAS
NEWEY, of No. 70, Navigation Street, Birmingham, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLIND
FURNITURE," to be as follows:-
First, our Invention relates to an improved method of attatching the blind
cord to the lath of the blind; we make a hollow acorn, or any other 'suitable
article, which is made to be taken in two pieces by means of a screw or
other suitable method; into the cup end of the acorn a shank is inserted,
whereby to fix it into the lath of the blind, and a hole is made in the other
end of the acorn, the cord is passed through this hole, and a knot tied, which
is then drawn into the acorn, and the acorn is then screwed together,
and is ready to be fixed to the blind.
Secondly, our Invention relates to an improved method of preventing the
slipping of the drawing cord of Venetian blinds; we make an escutchion with

page_text: a shank in the inside; to this shank the drawing cord is fixed, and then drawn
into its place, and the knot is thereby hid from view, and an ornamental
finish given to the blind.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Edwards and Thomas Newey in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JOHN
EDWARDS, of 77, Aldermanbury, London, and THOMAS NEWEY, of 70, Naviga-
tion Street, Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Edwards and Thomas Newey, Her special licence that we, the said
John Edwards and Thomas Newey, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said John Edwards and Thomas Newey, my execu-
tors, 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 MANUFACTURE OF BLIND FUR-
NITURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Edwards
and Thomas Newey, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or one of our, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Edwards, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our Invention relates to an improved method of fastening the tassel cord
to blinds; we take a hollow acorn, or other suitable design, made of wood,
bone, or any other material, which acorn or other design is made to unfasten
in the middle by means of a screw or other method; this hollow acorn or other
design has a hole made in one end, to allow the tassel cord to be passed

page_text: through, and a screw or other fastening is fixed into the other end, whereby
to fix it to the blind; the tassel cord is passed through the hole from the out-
side, and a knot tied in the end, which knot is then drawn inside; the acorn or
other design is then put together, the tassel cord suspending from it, and is
ready to be fastened to the blind; we do not claim the inventing a hollow
acorn or other suitable design, but we claim the application of such hollow
acorn or other suitable design made as described to the fastening of the tassel
cord to blinds; also we claim the fixing of a screw or other suitable fastening
as described into one end of such hollow acorn or other suitable design, by
which it is made ready to be fixed to the blind without the aid of tools.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwards, on behalf of myself
and tho said Thomas Newey, have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this
day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine.
JOHN EDWARDS. (L.S.)