A NEW KIND OF WINDOW BLINDS FOR COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WHICH WILL EXCLUDE SUN AND RAIN, AND ADMIT OF A FREE CURRENT OF AIR
Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LAYCOCK, of Great Windmill Street, in the Parish of Saint James, West-
minster, Coach Joyner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third, now King of
Great Britain, and so forth, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great
Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of
January, in the eighth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Laycock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Lay-
cock, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed,
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called
England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Inven-
tion of "A NEW KIND OF WINDOW BLINDS FOR COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES,
WHICH WILL EXCLUDE SUN AND RAIN, AND ADMIT OF A FREE CURRENT OF AIR,"
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages in the said Letters Patent, granted to me, the said Thomas Lay-
cock. my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date thereof; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Laycock, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the

page_text: nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next after the date of the same Letters Patent, as in and by the said
recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Laycock, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a New Kind
of Window Blinds for Coaches and other Carriages, which will exclude Sun
and Rain, and admit of a Free Current of Air, is described and ascertained in
the manner following (that is to say) :-
Imprimis, the shade blind to slide down the groove, and to answer at once
the purposes of shutter and curtain.
Secondly, the shades, made of wood or metal, to form a close pannell in the
frame. When down, each lath of the blind to turn on a pin or centre, by
which it is fixed in the frame. The pin or centre may be fixed on the top or
bottom edge, or near the top or bottom edge, or in the middle of the lath.
The pin or centre may be fixed to the frame, hole, or socket, to the end of the
lath. The shade blind to be guided by ribbon, line, or tape, connected to the
shade; the guide may be made of wood or metal. At one end or side a
spring bolt or latch constructed, to keep the blind close or in different degrees
of elevation. At one end or side may be a spring bolt or latch, to keep the
shades close down as a pannell. At one end or side may be another spring
latch, with a tooth rack or jack, constructed to keep the shades in different
degrees of elevation. The shades may be kept down as a pannell by a
button, and fixed to different degrees of elevation by a hook.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Second
day of May, in the eighth year of the reign of our said Sovereign
Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Second day of May, in
the year above mentioned, the afores" Thomas Laycock came before our said
Lord the King in Ilis Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the aforesaid Second day of May, in the year above said.