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Description

(No Model.)

H. 1. BROWN. SHUTTER WORKER.

.No. 310,372. Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

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ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT INGRAM BROWN, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

SHUTTER -WDRKER.

LIJZZSIFZGATZQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,372, dated January 6, 1885.

Application filed August 14,1884.

T0 60% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT INGRAM BROWN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Blind and Shutter Worker, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices for opening and closing outside blinds or shutters for windows, both plain and slatted, and for securing said blinds or shutters when open and closed.

The invention consists in a simple and efiicient novel combination of rods with the frame of the blind or shutter and its spring catch or hook, whereby the shutter may not only be readily opened and closed without the open ators leaning out of the window, but the spring catch or hook may be placed near the outside edge of the shutter-frame, or at such a distance from the hinges as to lessen strain on the hinges during a high wind, thus reducing the liability to breakage, and whereby the shutter, when a close or plain one," cannot be opened from the outside, substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents an inner face view of a slatted shutter in part with my invention applied and with the parts in position forloeking or holding the shutter closed. Fig. 21s ahorizontal section of the same on the line 00 a in Fig. 1, omitting the slats or filling of the shutter-frame; and Fig. 3 is an inner face View similar to Fig. l, but with the details of my im proved shutterworkcr in position during the act of opening or closing the shutter.

A indicates the frame of a window, outside, hinged blind or shutter, I) being one of its hinged attachments. The shutter here represented is aslatted one; but it might be aplain or close one.

My improved shutter-worker is applied to the inside face of the lower rail or portion of the shutter; and B indicates a pivoted or rocking spring catch, latch, or hook, of ordinary or any approved construction,and provided with reverse spurs c c at its opposite ends, for engagement with fixed staples or pins to hold the shutter both when closed and when swung back or open, as in the case of other double-hook (No model.)

| fasteners; but instead of placing thehoolr-fastening midway, or thercabout, of the width of the shutter, I prefer to arrange it near the opening edge ofthe shutter, whereby the shut ter will be relieved of strain on its hinges and be kept more securely closed in ahigh wind, and liability to breakage be correspondingly reduced; and my devices for working the hook and shutter make this placing of the hook near thefree edge of the shutter perfectly feasible. If desired, however, the shutter-worker may be applied to hooks arranged, as usual, in the center ofthe width of the shutter. These devices consist, virtually, of but two rods, 0 and D. The one C of these rods isa long one, extending nearly the full width of the shutter, and is connected at its one or forward end with the hook B, and is provided at its opposite or back end with a knob or handle, (Z, also with an inner laterally-proj ecting lip or lip-piece, 0, near its handle end. The other rod, D, is what may be termed a radius-rod, and, is pi"- oted at its back end, as at f, to the lower rail of the frame A, near the hinge edge thereof, or to a plate, 1 secured to said rail at said part. The front or opposite end of said rod D is pivoted, as at 71, to the rod 0 in advance of the lip c, which latter occupies aposition over the rod D, between its pivots fand h. The pivot f, it should be observed, is arranged slightly above the bevel or horizontal plane in which the hook 13 moves, andlthe several parts or rods are so proportioned and fitted that the rod G, when lowered, as shown in Fig. 1, will spring or drop slightly below the pivot f, and below the horizontal plane or level of the hook B, till arrested by the lip a, resting on the radius-rod D, so that when the shutter is closed it will be held locked or closed by the dip of the rod 0, or position of the rods 0 and D at the hinge side of theshutter-framc, below the level of the plane in which the hook B moves, and whereby, if the shutter be a close or plain one, it will be impossible to work or unfasten the hook from the outside of the window. By raising the handle end of the rod 0, however, and withit the radius-rod D, as shown in Fig. 3, and pulling on the rod 0, the hook B will be readily released from its hold 011 the fixed locking staple or pin and the shutter be easily swung or thrown open, after which the rods 0 and D will drop, by pressing slightly downward on ICO them ,back to their locking positions, as in Fig. 1, again, and the hook B be engaged with its staple or pin to hold the shutter open. The same operation takes place both in opening and closing the shutter, and by the position of the shutter-worker, as described, there will be no necessity to more than but very slightly open the window and never any necessity to lean out of the Window either to open or close the shutter, the handle d of the rod 0 always being Within close and easy reach.

Having thus described inyinvention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the hinged blind or shutter and its rocking fastening-hook, of the handle-rod O and the radius-rod D, connected thereto and to the inside of the frame of the shutter substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the hinged blind or shutter frame A, of the spring-hook B, arranged in proximity to the opening edge of the shutter, the handle-rod 0, connected with said hook and arranged to extend into proX imity with the hinge edge of the shutter, and provided with a side lip, e, and the radius-rod D, connected at its one end with the handlerod 0, and having its pivot f on the shutter frame arranged above the level of the plane in which the fastening-hook moves, essentially as and for the purposes herein set forth;

R0131. INGM. BROW'N.

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A. GREGORY, G. SEDGWTCK.

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