Improvements in Cornice Pole and Curtain Rings.
Year: 1897

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883) as required by
the decision of the Chief Examiner of the 4th day of August 1898.
Improvements in Cornice Pole and Curtain Rings.
I, WILLIAM THOMPSON, of 4, Saint Paul's Square, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, General Brass Founder, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in cornice pole and curtain rings
and relates to the eye provided to receive the hook of the curtain pin which I
form from a piece of wire thus reducing the cost of manufacture.
In carrying my invention into practice I make the eye of my curtain or cornice
pole rings from a piece of wire bent so as to form a loop or eye piece in the centre
and then twist it so as to bring the loop or eye at right angles to the ends of
the wire. These ends are then inserted through holes formed in the curtain or
cornice pole ring and bent over in opposite directions so as to lay flat with the
inner circumference of the ring. The rings may be either solid or split and when
split the eye piece secures the ends of the ring firmly together.
Dated this Fifteenth day of April 1897
GEORGE BARKER,
Agent for Applicant, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.
Improvements in Cornice Pole and Curtain Rings.
I, WILLIAM THOMPSON, of St. Paul's Square, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, General Brass Founder, do hereby declare the nature of my said
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 has for its object improvements in cornice pole and curtain rings
and relates to the eye provided to receive the hook of the curtain pin which I
form from a piece of wire thus reducing the cost of manufacture.
In carrying my invention into practice I make the eye of my curtain or cornice
pole rings from a piece of wire bent so as to form a loop or eye piece in the centre
and then twist it so as to bring the loop or eye at right angles to the ends of
the wire. These ends are then inserted through holes formed in the curtain or
cornice pole ring and bent over in opposite directions so as to lay flat with the
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page_text: inner circumference of the ring. The rings may be either solid or split and when
split the eye piece secures the ends of the ring firmly together.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood and easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which I have illustrated examples of my improved cornice pole or curtain
rings.
Figure 1 is a view shewing the eye E partly formed.
Figure 2 shews the eye ready for attaching to the ring R.
Figure 3 is a part sectional view of the cornice pole or curtain ring and eye
complete.
Figure 4 is an edge view of Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a cross section of Figure 3 through the line 1-2.
In carrying my invention into practice I form the eye E from a piece of wire
which I bend into the shape as shewn at Figure 1. I then bend or twist the
eye at right angles to the base as shewn at Figure 2. The ends e¹ and e² are
now inserted through holes formed in the ring R which may be split as shewn
or the ring may be solid. These ends are then bent over towards one another so
as to lay flat with the inner circumference of the ring as shewn at Figure 3 thus
firmly fixing the eye E to the ring and at the same time when the ring is a split
one securely uniting the ends together. Or the ends e¹ and e³ may be bent over
outwards instead of inwards as shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be under-
stood that it has been previously proposed to form eyes for curtain rings by
stamping or casting such eyes being twisted so as to enable their ends to be
passed through perforations and bent down inside the rings and that I do not
claim such construction generally, but I declare that what I claim is:-
The improvements in cornice pole
forming the eye such as E from a
ring by bending the ends e¹ and e
whether across the junction or not
tially as herein before described and
drawings.
CLAIMS.
and curtain rings consisting essentially in
piece of wire and securing the same to the
which are turned over inside the said ring
in the manner and for the purpose substan-
as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of
Dated this 5th day of January 1898.