Improved Cleat or Holder for Window Blind Cords and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Cleat or Holder for Window Blind Cords and the like.
GEORGE GRAY, 16 Bartons Bank Aston, Birmingham, Tool Maker and Die
Sinker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention consists of a cord holder for one or any number of cords, and is
constructed in the manner following.
The said cord holder is composed simply of two parts, and made by preference
in sheet brass or any other suitable alloy each part being stamped out when cold.
The cord holder however may be in two separate castings, thereby dispensing
with any stamping process.
In the arrangement of the holder made by a stamping process, I give the
following description of its manufacture. I take a flat piece of metal of rectangular
form, and bend it so as to assume a bow section, the two ends remaining in the
same plane. I then take the part that is bowed, and cut out a square or rectangular
hole, and the said hole may vary in width, so as to receive any number of cords
which have to pass through the hole or aperture cut out.
On each side of the bow section are formed two horns which I punch or pierce,
and ultimately bend up at right angles their full length and in similar directions.
Two horns are also formed at each end of the bow shaped plate and are also
pierced, and these holes are for the purpose of receiving ordinary screws for
securing the bow plate to the wood work of the window frame.
The piece I have now described forms the back part of the cord holder.
The front part of the cord holder is made in manner following. I take a flat
strip of brass or other suitable material, and stamp or press out in spoon shape. I
bend one end down, viz. the wide end at about right angles but curved slightly.
Two small projections are formed on each side of the wide end of the spoon shaped
plate and these projections are also done by stamping, and are made to act as
trunnions, entering into the holes pierced in the horns formed on each side of the
bow plate and previously described.
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In attaching the two pieces or parts together, the front or spoon shaped plate is
laid horizontally and in line with the back plate of bow section. The horns formed
on the sides of the bow plate are then turned up, and the projections on the front
plate aforesaid enter into the pierced holes of the bow plate, thus forming a hinge
upon which the spoon plate can swing through about 90°.
The
When the front plate assumes a parallel position with the back plate, the cord is
gripped by the tail piece or bent down part of the spoon pressing the cord or cords
against the rectangular aperture formed in the bow shaped or back plate.
greater the tension which may be put upon the cord, the greater the grip, the bent
part being forced harder against the side of the aperture in the bow part, the cord
or cords being jammed between the bent down part of the spoon before mentioned
and the side of the aperture.
Should the front plate be set at right angles or thereabouts to the bow shaped
plate, the bent part of the spoon comes out of the beforementioned aperture (or
nearly so) in the bow plate, a clear passage being thus formed or made between the
front and back plate for the cord to pass with freedom.
Dated this 10th day of October 1893.
WILLIAM WALKER,
Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Cleat or Holder for Window Blind Cords and the like.
GEORGE GRAY, Tool Maker and Die Sinker, 16 Bartons Bank Aston,
Birmingham, 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 consists of a cord holder for one or any number of cords, and
constructed in the manner following.
The said cord holder is in two parts, and made by preference in sheet brass, or
any other metal, each part being stamped out.
The cord holder however may be in two castings, thereby not requiring any
stamping process. In the arrangement of the one made by a stamping process,
give the following description. I take a flat piece of metal of rectangular form, and
bend it so as to form a bow section, the two ends remaining in the same plane. I
then take the part that is bent, and cut out a square or rectangular hole, and the
said hole may vary in width, so as to receive any number of cords which have to pass
through the aperture made.
On each side of the bow section are formed two horns, which I pierce and
ultimately bend up at right angles and in similar directions.
I also pierce at each end of the bow section a small hole for receiving ordinary
wood screws. The part I have now described relates to what is secured to the
wood work of the window frame or wainscoting, and forms the back part of the cord
holder.
I will now describe the front part of the cord holder in manner following.
I take a strip of brass or any other ductile metal stamped out in spoon shape.
I then bend the wide end down at about right angles to the plane of the metal.
Two small projections are made to act as trunnions and these trunnions enter into
the holes formed on the back of the cord holder. It should be understood that
the spoon shaped front piece of the cord holder is placed in position, whereupon the
said horns are bent up and embrace each trunnion, thus forming a simple hinge on
either side of the back part of the beforementioned cord holder. When the front
part of the cord holder lays horizontal, with its bent part passing through the
rectangular slot or hole, the cord or cords would be held in position and the greater
the tendency of the cord to pull away, would give more frictional grip or bite, in
consequence of pulling the bent part of the spoon shaped piece harder against the
edge of the rectangular slot or hole, between which passes the cord or cords.
When the spoon shaped piece is hinged at right angles to the back part of the
cord holder, the cord or cords are at liberty to be moved freely in either direction
longitudinally.
In order that my said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying the
same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended
an explanatory drawing.
Fig. 1 shews the two parts of the cord holder in part section, with the spoon
shaped part (S) in its horizontal position with the cord gripped or held fast.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the same under the same conditions of holding or gripping the
cord.
Fig. 2 shews the apparatus with the spoon shaped piece (S) at right angles or
nearly so to the back part of the cord holder, namely the part secured to the wood
frame of the window.
The position thus shewn indicates the release of the cord from frictional grip,
and the freedom given to draw the cord in either direction longitudinally.
Figs. 4 and 5 shew the two parts singly or in detail which compose the entire
apparatus before or prior to attachment or completion.

page_text: Fig. 6 is a modification of my apparatus as applied to roller blinds, and the
frictional seizure or grip is obtained on precisely similar principles to what has been
described already, and shewn by Figs. 1, 2, and 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. A stamped or cast spoon piece made and formed, substantially as and in the
manner herein described in reference to and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
2nd. The stamping or casting of the back piece of a cord holder, having a
rectangular aperture, through which the cord or cords are seized or released,
substantially as and in the manner herein described in reference to and shewn on
the accompanying drawing.
3rd. The stamping or casting of the parts for roller blind purposes in combination
with a suitable roller attached to the said parts, substantially as and in the manner
herein described in reference to and shewn on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1893
WILLIAM WALKER,
170, Cafe Hill, Birmingham, Agent.