IMPROVED DEVICES OR APPARATUS TO BE ATTACHED TO THE WALLS OF APARTMENTS OR THE LIKE FOR HOLDING OR SECURING PICTURES, CURTAIN-CORNICES, MIRRORS, OR OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Harris Lake at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd January 1881. A communication
from abroad by Moise Michell Goldenstein & Co., of Vienna, Austria.
HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVED DEVICES OR APPARATUS
TO BE ATTACHED TO THE WALLS OF APARTMENTS OR THE LIKE FOR HOLDING
OR SECURING PICTURES, CURTAIN-CORNICES, MIRRORS, OR OTHER ARTICLES."
[A communication from abroad by Moise Michell Goldenstein & Co., of Vienna,
Austria.]
For suspending cornices for curtains, also pictures, looking glasses, and the like,
it is usual to drive nails into the wall, and as sometimes wider and sometimes
narrower cornices and the like are used, and as pictures and other articles are hung
sometimes higher and sometimes lower, the walls are disfigured and damaged.
The object of this Invention is to provide improved means for suspending
curtain cornices, pictures, and other articles, and for fixing curtain-rosettes or
hooks, and the like upon walls, by which means the disadvantages above referred
to are obviated, and the said Invention comprises the devices hereinafter described;
which are susceptible of being considerably varied without departure from the
spirit of this Invention.
In carrying my said Invention into practice I construct a device specially
applicable for fixing cornices as follows, that is to say:-
This device consists of a plate to be let into the wall, and a broad part thereof
which projects from the wall. In this broad part there is a slot in which a sliding
piece is movable. At the bottom of the slot in the said plate there are notches or
openings into which the sliding piece above mentioned takes by means of a spring.
By compressing or releasing the spring the sliding-piece may be moved to and fro
or held fast in any desired position. By this device the distance between the points
of suspension of the cornice can be altered within certain limits, as may be desired.
The said sliding piece is provided preferably with two eyes. Into one eye the
pin of the cornice is inserted, and into the other eye I preferably insert a decorative
filling-piece, which may, for instance, represent a hand, so as to hide the device
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page_text: which supports the cornice when the latter is too short for such purpose. The
second eye may however be omitted.
A modification of this device is constructed as follows, that is to say :-Upon a
piece or plate which is let into the wall a hollow piece is screwed or soldered fast,
and in the said hollow piece one, two, or any suitable number of hooks or screws
are free to be moved or to be rigidly fixed in position by screwing them fast by
means of movable nuts which are free to slide in indentations or depressions in
the piece or plate fixed in the wall, as aforesaid.
The solid or recessed plates hereinbefore described may be dispensed with and
a plate used, which is fixed upon the wall by screws, nails, or the like. It is of
substantially the same construction as those herein before described, and differs
therefrom only by the manner in which it is to be fixed. This form of the said device
would be found advantageous where the same is to be applied to finished buildings,
whilst those previously herein described, and which are let into the walls, can be
fixed therein when the same are being built.
According to a further modification a spring is provided in connection with the
hook or screw hereinbefore described, instead of a nut. The recesses or slots
hereinabove described may be caused to pass entirely through the plates, and this
would be advantageous, especially in picture galleries. A device for fixing the
rosette-pins or other holders for curtains (for which purpose however the above
specified devices made of small size would also be applicable) I construct as follows,
that is to say:-A suitable shell is appropriately fixed on the wall. A slot
in said shell corresponds to the shoulder of a button or stud. When the latter is
inserted into the shell it will compress a spring provided in the shell; said spring
may be either coiled or flat. The button is held fast when it has been rotated for
90° by pins on its shoulder entering corresponding depressions in the shell, and by
the spring herein before referred to.
A more simple form of my improved device I construct as follows, that is to
sayThe stud or hook is only screwed on or in, or is held fast by a wedge or key
which is driven in.
These devices may also be used for suspending clothes or other articles.