Improvements in Portiere or Door Curtain Rods and their Accessories.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 12th June, 1899-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portiere or Door Curtain Rods and their
Accessories.
I, ARTHUR MORLEY ATKINSON, 32, Eden Street, Saltburn by the Sea,
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of my invention is the use of a telescope rod to support the curtain
to prevent rod & curtain being extended out into the room as the door swings
open, also the use of sockets into which the brackets or arms that support the
rod fit to enable rod & brackets to be easily, detached when not required for use.
I effect my object in the following way.
Two sockets are fixed one on the door at the inner side, on the swinging edge
the other on the door frame at the hinged side so that one socket swings with
the door and the other remains in a fixed position.
Into each socket a bracket is put, the top end of each bracket fitting through
holes in the rod, the rod being free to move on the brackets as the door swings
open. The rod is made in two parts one of which telescopes into the other
between the brackets and prevents the rod & curtain from extending or advancing
into the room as the door opens.
Dated this 10th day of Santambor 1808
Improvements in Portiere or Door Curtain Rods and their
Accessories.
I, ARTHUR MORLEY ATKINSON, of 32, Eden Street, Saltburn by the Sea,
Yorkshire, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The rod D & C and brackets E & F are made removeable the brackets E & F
Fig. 1 & 4 being square at the lower end G Fig. 5 and fitting into sockets Fig. 2
& Fig. 3 (with square holes) Fig. 3 which are fastened to the door and door
frame, the square hole in each socket Fig. 3 having one side parallel to the door
and frame, a flat side of square on one bracket F Fig. 4 is at the back so that
the bracket stands at right angles to the door, Fig. 4 the bracket E for the
door frame Fig. 1 & 5 has the square G slanting so that when put into the
socket H Fig. 3 stands at an angle of 45 degrees from the door frame

page_text: at the side of the socket Fig. 1 away from the door, this allows the end of the
rod D to clear the door frame when the door swings open, this bracket E, Fig. 1
can be put in the socket in two positions and therefore may be used for right
or left hand doors.
The top of each bracket E & F terminates in a pin which go through holes in
the rod D & C at or near each end. The rod itself D & C is made in two parts
one of which C telescopes into the other D) between the brackets this shortens the
rod as the door opens and prevents it from advancing further past the edge of the
door.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
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Making the rod telescopic so that it shortens as the door opens, and making
the removeable brackets to fit either right or left hand doors.
Dated this 10th day of June 1899.
ARTHUR MORLEY ATKINSON.