NEW-INVENTED WINDOW SHUTTERS OF WOOD, IRON, TIN, AND OTHER MATERIALS, TO SLIDE UP AND DOWN, AND THEREBY REGULATE AND SHADE THE LIGHT AND SHUT UP AND BLIND THE WINDOWS, AND WHICH ARE PARTICU- LARLY CALCULATED FOR TAKING UP LITTLE Room
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MORRIS, of Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Carpenter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-eighth day of October, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, did
grant unto me, the said John Morris, my exors, adñors, and assigns,
special licence, that I, the said John Morris, my exors, admors, and assigns,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED WINDOW SHUTTERS OF WOOD, IRON,
TIN, AND OTHER MATERIALS, TO SLIDE UP AND DOWN, AND THEREBY REGULATE AND
SHADE THE LIGHT AND SHUT UP AND BLIND THE WINDOWS, AND WHICH ARE PARTICU-
LARLY CALCULATED FOR TAKING UP LITTLE Room;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Morris, should not par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manuer the same was 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 one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should
determine and be void, as by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance and in pursuance of the said
proviso in the said in part recited Letters Patent contained, I, the said

page_text: John Morris, by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal, do
ascertain and more particularly describe the nature of my said Invention in
the said Letters Patent mentioned, and declare the same to be in manner
and form following:-
:-
I make or cause my new-invented shutters of wood, iron, tin, and other
materials in four several proportionable parts or pieces, plain or in pannels,
with pulley stiles for hanging them. I cause the edge of the shutters on each
side to be groved to receive the lines which they are hung by. I cause a screw
pin and nut to be fixed in the under part on each side of each of the two top
shutters, and then fix a thin slip of wood or iron over the screw pins and nuts
with screws.
I then cause one or more locks or catches to be fixed on the
side of the top rail of the bottom shutter next the window, and in the top
edge thereof two screw nobs, and on the bottom rail two hooks or cranks
made, of iron or other metal, with the hook part thereof outwards, which
projects about three eighths of an inch before the shutter. I make or cause
to be made for my new-invented shutters two pulley stiles of wood or iron, in
front of which I make a grove, and fix a bead in each of them, to project
about half an inch before each stile, to guide the shutters as they slide up
and down. I fix or cause to be fixed four pulleys in the front of each of
the stiles, two at the heighth of the top of the window or place where they
are fixed, and two at the bottom. I then make or cause holes to be made in
the stiles opposite each pulley. I cause to be fixed on the back of each stile
two pulleys opposite the two lower pulleys. In front I fix or cause a piece of
wood or iron to be fixed to the top of the said stiles, and the like at the bottom,
to keep them to the width of the shutters. I fix or cause each of the said
stiles to be fixed and fastned with screw, nails, or otherwise to the window
frame or place where the shutters are hung or intended to be hung. I then
make or cause to be made a piece of wood or iron, in form of a bar, about
two inches broad, in thickness that of the shutter intended to rest on it, and
in length the width of the same shutter. I fix or cause a line to be fixed to
each end of it, and then pass the other end of each line through one of the
lower holes and pulleys in each stile before mentioned, and then through a
frame pulley on each side at the back of the stile within the linings, and
fasten or cause a weight to be made fast to the ends thereof. I place or
cause the bottom shutter next the window to be placed on the said piece of
wood or iron in form of a bar, before mentioned, of about two inches broad,
the thickness of the last-mentioned shutter, and in length the width of the
same shutter, and which is hung or ballanced with the weights, as last before
mentioned, when it will rise or fall with ease. I fix or cause to be fixed on

page_text: the top rail of the other bottom shutter two hooks or cranks, and two on the
reverse side of the bottom rail of the same shutter, which projects about
three eighths of an inch. I put or cause to be put the like fastnings to one
of the top shutters. I fix or cause a line to be fixed at the lower part of the
lower part of the last-mentioned bottom shutter, on each side, and then pass
the other ends through the other two lower holes and pulleys in each stile,
and then lead them up the back of the said stiles to the top pulleys, and
then through the top pulleys on each side, and fix them to the screw pins and
nuts under the slip before mentioned in one of the top shutters, and the last-
nientioned bottom shutter and top shutter then counterbalance each other.
I fix or cause a small framed pulley to be fixed on the line on each side at
the back of the said stiles. I cause two cranks to be fixed to the other top
shutter on the top rail, and on the bottom rail one or more linking plates to
catch to the locks or catches fixed on the top rail of the first-mentioned
bottom shutter. I fix or cause a line to be fixed to each of the said screw
pins in the other top shutter, and pass them through the other top pulleys, and
then through the frame pulley fixed to the line on each side, and return to the
top of the stiles, and made fast. The lines being adjusted by the screw pin and
nut before mentioned, the two top shutters then counterballances the bottom
shutters, and act in a regular manner, and when shut the above fastnings
have all their bearing at once. I fix or cause to be fixed on the inside edge
of each of the said pulley stiles a piece of iron projecting about three eighths
of an inch before the stiles, and fix the inside linings as may be necessary to
hide the weights, and make or cause to be made two beads, with a grove in
each, to receive the projecting parts of the plates, and fix them thereon. Or
I make or cause my said new-invented shutters to be made of wood or iron
and other materials in four several parts or pieces, plain or in pannels, with
the edges thereof groved to receive the lines on which they are hung, the
two top shutters and one of the bottom ditto nearly equal in size to
each other. The stiles of the other bottom shutter (and which rises
with the top of it to the center of the pulley stiles) are as much in length
below the bottom rail as the shutter is high, and the shutter itself equal in
size to each of the other three; and I place, fix, or fasten, or cause to be
placed, fixed, or fastned, the like number of screw pins, nuts, and fastnings,
and in the same manner as is before described in making my said new-
invented shutters, as first above mentioned. And I also make or cause to be
made the pulley stiles, and the pulleys fixed thereon and therein, as before
mentioned in making my said shutters in manner aforesaid. And I fix or
cause to be fixed a line at the lower part of cach stile of said shutter, with

page_text: long stiles, and pass the other end of each line through one of the lower
pullies ou each pulley stile, and up the back stiles and through the top
pullies, and fix the end of each line to the screw pin and nut of the top
shutter which falls lowest, and then they counterballance and meet in the
center. I fix or cause to be fixed or fastned a line on each side of the
other bottom shutter, and pass the same through the other lower pulley on each
stile, and up the back of the stile, and through the other top pulley on each
side, and fix the ends of the lines to the screw pin and nut on each side of the
other top shutter; then they counterballance each other, and will fill the vacant
spaces at the top and bottom left by the other two shutters. When opened, two
shutters falls and two rises, and when shut the fastnings all catch at once.
1 fix or cause to be fixed the inside linings with screws or nails, and grove
the beads to receive the projecting parts of a plate of iron fixed or fastned to
the inside edge of the pulley stile, and then fix the beads thereon.
And I do hereby declare, that I mean and intend my said new Invention
shall extend and my said shutters made of wood, iron, tin, and other
materials.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Morris, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and in the
twenty-sixth year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the
Thi
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of Novem-
ber, in the year of our Lord 1785, the aforesaid John Morris came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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 Statutes made for that purpose.