Improvements in the Mounting of and Fittings for Dressing and Cheval Looking Glasses, Ventilating Windows, Louvre Boards, and other similarly Balanced Appliances, and for Rollers for Blinds, Charts, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1888
Specification Accepted, 31st Dec., 1888
Improvements in the Mounting of and Fittings for Dressing and
Cheval Looking Glasses, Ventilating Windows, Louvre Boards,
and other similarly Balanced Appliances, and for Rollers for
Blinds, Charts, and the like.
I, EDWIN HAINES of Paddock Wood in the County of Kent Retired Farmer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same 13 to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
According to this invention I fix to the dressing or cheval looking glass, ventilating
window, louvre board, or other similarly balanced appliance on each side of the
fulcrum, a ring or washer, and provide the standard or posts with fittings having a
mainly rectangular projection, or lug taking its place within the ring and a cam
part or box below the ring, and having a hole for a screwed or other pivot to pass
freely through into the frame or sash of the swing looking glass, the centre of the
pivot being slightly below that of the ring. The hole for the pivot is somewhat
oval the longer axis being vertical. One lower corner of the aforesaid lug within
the ning takes a bearing against the inside of the ring while the lower outer part
of the ring bears against the cam a little beyond the vertical centre line, the glass
thus resting at two points is steadied sufficiently to keep in place, but can never-
theless be shifted with ease, the places of support shifting in the process of shifting
the glass round. The invention is also applicable to rollers for blinds, charts and
the like.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown a dressing glass mounted in the
manner described, Figure 1 being a front view, partly in section and Figure 2 a side
view. Figure 3 is a front view of one of the fittings, the dotted lines indicating the
position or inclination of the looking glass in the thrown back position, and Figure 4
a similar view shewing the looking glass thrown forward Figure 5 is a sectional
side view of the fitting.
To each side of the looking glass frame, and in the central or balanced part is fixed
by means of two screws a ring or washer a, and to each of the standards of the sup-
porting frame is fixed a fitting 6 having a lug c of a mainly rectangular form but with
b

page_text: slightly rounded corners, and a lug or cam part d the lower part of the ring a working
between the lug c and the lug d. The fitting bis pivoted to the looking glass by a
screw e which passes through a somewhat oval hole in the fitting b, the centre of the
pivot or screw e being always a little below the centre of the ring a. In Figure 3
the right hand lower corner of the lug c takes its bearing against the inside of the
ring a while the lower part of the ring a bears against the cam d a little beyond
or to the left of the centre line. In Figure 4 the glass is supported in the opposite
way
Figure 6 18 a part sectional elevation of the invention as applied to a blind or chart
roller. The ring a is screwed onto the grooved pulley f of the roller g or if the
pulley is made of metal the ring a may be made in one therewith. The fitting b, c, d
is fixed to the side of the window frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
First Mounting swing looking glasses and other similarly balanced appliances
and blind rollers and the like eccentrically while supporting same at two points of
support substantially as set forth.
Second-The construction of fittings for swing looking glasses and other similarly
balanced appliances and for blind rollers and the like as described with reference to
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th de-T1000