AIRTIGHT HINGE. 6^1 



IX. 



Account of a new airtight Hinge for a folding Screen, or for 

 a Door; by Mr, Maetin Furniss, No. 128, StrandK 



SIR, 



T, 



HE model I have herewith sent is my invention. I beg Joint for a 

 leave to lay it before the Society for the encouragement of or door, lo ex- 

 Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the hope, that they <:l"de air. 

 will be pleased to examine it, and find it worthy of some 

 mark of their approbation. It is a model for putting to- 

 gether the joints of a folding screen, so as to fold in 

 either direction without admitting the smallest quantity 

 of air ; it may likewise be appropriated to hanging of 

 doors. ., 



I am, Sir 



Your humble servant, 



M. FURNISS. 



A Certificate from Messrs. Wilsons, cabinet-makers in H*'t«^*n«** 

 the Strand, testified, that Mr. Furniss's model for screens or , 



doors is his own entire invention, and has been executed by 

 them on a high folding screen for a lady in Baker street, 

 Portm an square. 



Reference to the Engraving of Mr. Furniss's Airtight Hinge 

 for a Door or Screen, 



PI. 11, fig. 9. A plan of the joint: A B, two sides of the Pescription of 

 screen with circular ends, joined by a piece of leather 

 reaching from top to bottom fastened at C, and wrapping 

 (like the letter S) partly round the curve of one fold of the 

 »creen, and partly round the other to D, where it is also 



• Trans, of the Society of Arts, rol XXV, p. 126. Ten guineas 

 vrare reted to Mr. Furniss for tiiit inventioa. 



fastened : 



