US60736A

US60736A - Egbert button

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Publication number: US60736A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1867-01-01
Anticipated expiration: 1884-01-01

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-tOBERT HUTTON, OF WILLIAMSBURG, N EW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 IIIMSELF AND WILLIAM MEE, 0F SAME IDLACE.

Letters Patent No. 60,736, dated Jmuary 1, 18b7.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLINDS.

ToALL wHoM 1r MAY eoNen'nN:

Be it known that I, ROBERT BUTTON, of Williamsburg, in the county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented new and useful improvements in Window Blinds; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, land exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same. i The present invention relates to that class of window-blinds in which the slats composing thesame are hung s0 as to swing or turn in the side pieces of the blind frame; and it consists principally in a novel manner of connecting the :several slats to the operating rod employed for removing the slats, which rod, in lieu of being arranged along the centre line of the slats, is at oncand the same end of each of thelsame, and is there hung directly to the ends of the slats by suitable te-nonsor pins formed thereon, so that when the slats are closed the said rod will offer no obstructionI to the raising and lowering of the sashes'of the window-frame in connection with which such blind is used. p A

This invention also consists in a novel manner of hanging one end of the slats between the upper and lower one of each series of slats of the blind-rods; and also in the use of a spring or springs, in connection with one or more of the tenons of the blind-slats, for the purpose of so binding. them as to prevent their turning too freely and thusv becoming disarrangedwhen once brought to any desired position, whether Amore or less opened or Closed.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvements are illustrated- ,Figure 1 being a front view of a blind constructed according thereto, with a portion of one of the side `pieces of `such frame broken out or away to show the arrangement of the spring in eonneetion'with the tenen of one of the blind-slats; and

Figure 2, a transverse vertical section taken in the plane of the line :v x, g. 1. Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. A, in the drawings, represents a blind-frame, and I3 its several slats, that at one end are all hung by tenons,

7 C, in and to one of the side pieces D of the blind-frame, but at theirothers, with the exception ot' the upper and lower one of the series, (which are hung by tenons tothe opposite side piece F of the blindframe,) are hung by pins or tenons Gr, formed at such end to vertical'rods H, one upon the-outside and th other upon the inside of the blind; these rods being also similarly hung to the upper and 4lower ones of the series of slats, thus sustaining the slats in their proper relative position, as is obvious without anyfu'rther explanation.

By the rods H the slats are operated, and' as they are upon the'ends of the slats in lieu of along their centre line, or midway between their two ends, such rod of the two rods as is upon the inside of the blind when it is closed upon the window, is, if the slats are closed one yupon another by properly operating such rod, in such a position as w'be out of the way, or in other words out of the )line of movement of the sashes of the window when raised or lowered for being opened or closed, as the ease may be-an advantage of much importance.

In connection with the tenons of the slats, a spiral spring, L, is arranged in the side of the blind-frame in which such tenen turns, so as to bear upon theend of the said tenen, as plainly shown in g.'1, and thus to bind or hold the same sufficiently tight to prevent its -turninglfreely or easy, and thus to become disarranged, as it were, in position, after the slats have been once set, either moreor less opened or closed, as may be found desirable. 'l

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A blind havingits red for` operating the slats of the same hung to one end of such slats, substantially as and for the purpose described. l

The above, specification of my invention signed by me this 19th day of September, 1866.

' ROBT. HUTTON. Witnesses: v

WM. F. MeNAMARA, Alinear W. Btowin