Improvements in Curtain Poles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Curtain Poles.
I GEORGE SMITH of 35 Halton Road, Canonbury in the County of Middlesex,
Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to the production of grooved metal curtain poles, and the
invention consists in a simple mode of producing the same, whereby lightness and
strength will be obtained.
In carrying out my invention, I may take a comparatively thin strip of metal,
and 1 draw it through a die on a mandril, so as to form a grooved pole of small
diameter inside a grooved pole of large diameter, the connection between the two
poles being by a long neck with vertical sides. The abutting edges of the strip,
when bent over, arc brazed or otherwise secured together.
Or I may take a metal tube of suitable diameter, and draw it through a die to
give a similar section.
Or I may take a slotted metal tube of large diameter, and fold the edges inwards
and back on the body of the tube. I then take a slotted metal tube of small
diameter, and slide it onto the turned back edges of the brass pole. By these
means am enabled to form a very light and strong pole.
The ends of the pole I close by a plate, formed with a recess to span the smaller
pole, and which I insert through a slot near the ends of the larger pole. This
plate is formed with pins or projections which are passed through holes in the
lower part of the large pole, and are rivetted on the outside. This plate has a
tapped hole for the screw of the ornamental end.
Dated this 19th day of May 1891.
VWTON
CON
VTON
SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Curtain Poles.
I GEORGE SMITH of 35 Halton Road Canonbury Square in the County of
Middlesex Commission Agent 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 :-
This invention relates to the production of grooved metal curtain poles and
consists in a simple mode of producing the same whereby lightness and strength
will be obtained.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1, 2, 3 & 4 represent transverse sections of
metal curtain poles made according to my invention.
Fig. 1 is a comparatively thin strip of metal which is drawn through a die or
dies so as to form a grooved tube of small diameter the connection between the
two tubes being by a long neck with vertical sides. The abutting edges of the
strip when bent over are brazed or otherwise secured together.
Or I may take a metal tube of suitable diameter and draw it through a die or
dies which will give the same section.
Fig. 2 represents a grooved metal tube of large diameter (made of say thin
brass) with the edges folded inwards and back on the body of the tube. A grooved
tube of sinall diameter (say of iron or steel) being slipped onto the turned back
edges of the larger tube.

page_text: Fig. 3 represents a grooved metal tube of large diameter with the edges of the
small tube folded outwards and passed through the slot of the large tube, the edges
being turned back on the body of the larger tube.
Fig. 4 represents a slotted metal tube of large diameter (the edges of which
when drawn can touch or overlap) having a bar of wood grooved longitudinally
running the whole length of the tube which serves to keep apart the sides and
enables the carriers to run freely therein.
Fig. 5 represents the end of a pole partly closed by a metal plate which is
inserted through a slot near the end of the pole. This plate is formed with pins
or projections (as shown in Fig. 6) which are passed through holes in the lower
part of the pole and riveted on the outside.
This plate has a tapped hole to take an ornamental end.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and the
manner of performing the same, I would remark I do not limit myself to the precise
details herein described as I may vary it without departing from the nature of my
invention but what I do claim is
Firstly. The vertical neck A. Fig. 1 connecting the smaller tube to the
larger one.
Secondly. The mode of constructing and connecting the smaller or inner tube to
the larger or outer tube as shown in Fig. 2 & 3 and marked B and C.
Thirdly. A grooved metal curtain pole having a longitudinally grooved wooden
bar running the entire length of the pole as shown at Fig. 4 and marked D.
Fourthly, Grooved curtain poles having a plate to take ornamental ends as
shown and described in Fig. 5 and 6 and marked E & F.
Dated this 19th day of February 1892.
GEORGE SMITH.