An Improved Cover for Stair Carpets, Linoleum, and the like, and Fastening Means therefor.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cover for Stair Carpets, Linoleum, and the like, and
Fastening Means therefor.
I HENRY HAMBIDGE of 375 High Road Chiswick in the County of Middlesex
Cook & Confectioner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
:-
My invention relates to an improved cover for staircase carpets linoleum and the
like and fastening means therefor and consists of a shield, or piece of other suitable
form of oil cloth, baize or other suitable material provided with a suitable pattern
design figure or ornament designed to cover the tread and the rise of a step for the
purpose of concealing the wear or soils which may occur in some parts of a stair
carpet or linoleum and to give a pleasant and refreshing appearance to the same. My
improved cover may be placed upon each or every other step of a staircase, its upper
edge being bent over and secured to the body of the cover so as to receive through
the sheath thus formed of the stair rod of the stair carpet while its lower part has a
pointed rounded or otherwise shaped end which is secured to the rod of the next
step by tabs, rings or any other suitable means sewn or fixed thereto by brass hooks
or other similar device.
My improved cover may likewise be made in a duplex form for the purpose of
covering two steps instead of one only.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cover for Stair Carpets, Linoleum, and the like, and
Fastening Means therefor.
I HENRY HAMBIDGE of 375 High Road Chiswick in the County of Middlesex,
Cook and Confectioner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention relates to an improved cover for staircase carpets, linoleum and the
like and fastening means therefor and consists of a shield or piece of other suitable
form of oilcloth, baize or other convenient material provided with a suitable pattern
design figure or ornament and designed to cover the tread and the rise of a step for
the purpose of concealing the wear or soils which may occur in some parts
of a stair carpet or linoleum and to give a pleasant and refreshed appearance to the
sanie.
My Improved cover may be placed upon each or every other step of a staircase,
its upper edge being bent over and secured to the body of the cover so as to receive
through the sheath thus formed one of the rods of the stair carpet while its lower
part has a pointed rounded or otherwise shaped end, which is secured to the rod
of the next step by tabs, rings or any other suitable means, sewn or fixed thereto
by brass hooks or other similar device.
My Improved cover may likewise be made in a duplex form for the purpose of
covering two steps instead of one only.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a front view of my improved cover.
Fig. 2 is a plan and Fig. 3 a front view of a few steps of a staircase shewing the
mode of fixing the said cover over the carpet. Fig. 1 is a detail. My Improved
cover C Fig. I may be made of any convenient material such as baize, linoleum,

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felt and the like, and may likewise be made to assume any suitable shape according
It is provided at the top which is straight, to rest against the bottom of
the rise of the step above, with two hooks h. intended to be fastened to the stair
rod o placed along the bottom of such rise, while its lower part having the form of a
tab is provided inside as shewn in Fig. 1 with a hook fixed to the rod n
placed along the bottom of the rise of the step below the former as illustrated in-
Figs. 2 and 3, Fig. 2 shewing the tops of the covers as laid on the treads of the
stairs, and Fig. 3 the lower parts thereof resting against the rises of the same
stairs.
To meet the requirements of winding stairs I make one side of my cover longer
than the other, on the right or on the left hand side, according as the stairs wind
towards the latter or the former side. The cover C Fig. 1 has a circular central
notch covered by the tab t and allowing the latter to be hooked on the stair rod as
shewn in Fig. 3. The covers are placed centrally over the stair carpet in order to
conceal the worn out portions thereof, while enhancing the appearance of the stairs.
Moreover as these covers can be shifted from one stair to the other they can be
evenly worn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
The improved stair cover arranged and fixed substantially as and for the purpose
described.
this 6th day of July 1889.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.