Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1887.
Complete Left, 30th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 30th Aug., 1887.
HENRY WILLIAM BEAN Commercial Clerk 81 Midland Road Wellingborough do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new means of securing and holding in position the cords
used for drawing up and lowering the Window Blind now in general use and to obviate
the difficulty of such Blind cord Adjustment becoming loose through the constant
raising and lowering of such Window Blinds.
The Invention consists of a brass or other suitable metal plate either stamped or
cast of suitable length width & thickness up the centre of which I drill punch or cast
holes to within an inch from the top & half an inch from the bottom, at the top end
of the said plate which I leave solid I fix a small pulley revolving on a spindle, over
this brass plate 1 place a clip having a spindle or projection and through this I drill a
hole & peg drill same sufficiently deep & large enough to receive a spiral spring which
I insert in the said spindle, I then pass a bolt right through the spring & spindle and
secure the knob on the smallest end whilst the other end being larger than the spring
serves as a head which when the knob is clipped and pulled towards the person it
compresses the spring which throws the bolt back again as soon as released.
In operation the clip is placed over the Brass plate and screwed on the window
frame, the knob is pulled outwards and the plate lifted up or pressed down and when
in position the bolt in spindle upon releasing the knob shoots into one of the holes in
plate thus holding it firmly and secure.
Or instead of screwing the clip on the frame I crank the ends of plate and screw
this to the said frame taking the pulley from the top end of such plate and placing it
upon the spindle through which the bolt passes the knob acting as a guide to keep the
cord from running off the pulley, and the clip sliding up or down and held in possition
as herein described.
It is obvious that I may further modify the construction herein before described
without departing from the nature of my Invention.

page_text: HENRY WILLIAM BEAN of 81 Midland Road Wellingborough in the county of
Northampton Commercial Clerk 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 a new means of securing and holding in position the cords
used for drawing up and lowering down the Window Blinds now in general use and
to obviate the difficulty of such Blind cord Adjustment becoming loose through the
constant raising and lowering of such Window Blinds.
The invention consists of a Brass or other suitable metal plate either stamped or
cast of suitable length, width and thickness up the centre of which I drill, punch, or
cast holes to within an inch from the top and half an inch from the bottom, at the
top end of the said plate which I leave solid I fix a small pulley revolving on a spindle,
over this Brass plate I place a clip having a spindle or projection and through this
I drill a hole and peg drill the same sufficiently deep and large enough to receive a
small spiral spring which I insert in the said spindle I then pass a bolt right through
the spring and spindle & secure the knob on the smallest end whilst the other end
being larger than the spring serves as a head which when the knob is clipped and
pulled towards the person it compresses the spring and shoots the bolt back again as
soon as the knob is released. In operation the clip is placed over the Brass plate and
screwed on the window frame the knob is pulled outwards and the plate lifted up or
pressed down and when in position the bolt in the spindle upon releasing the knob
shoots into one of the holes in the plate thus holding it firmly and secure or instead
of screwing the clip on the window frame I crank the ends of plate and screw this to
the said frame taking the pulley from the top end of such plate and placing it
up on the spindle through which the bolt passes, the knob acting as a guide to keep
the cord from running off the pulley and the clip sliding up or down and held
in position by the bolt as herein described.
In order to enable my Invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawings in which figure 1 represents a
front view, fig. 2 is a section on line H. H. of fig. I with my Improvements applied
thereto, the parts being shown in their normal position, fig. 3 is a similar view to
fig. 1. showing a front view, fig. 4 is a bolt and fig. 5 a spiral spring.
Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
A represents the spring which is inserted in the spindle I. B is the Bolt which
passes through the spring A & spindle 1 as shown by dotted lines in fig. 2.
Crepresents the holes in plate for the Bolt to pass through, E represents the clip
on fig. 1. for sliding up and down. G shows the pulley in position, I represents
spindle on clip E and K represents the knob on the end of Bolt B.

page_text: By this arrangement the Blind Cords can be adjusted in an expeditious and
simple manner the following being the mode of operation :-The knob K being
pulled outwards withdraws the bolt B from the hole C thus allowing the clip E
Fig. 1 to move upwards or downwards & on releasing the knob K the Bolt B
shoots into one of the holes C thus holding the clip E firm and secure, or the
knob K being pulled outwards withdraws Bolt B from holes C which allows
plate L fig. 3 to move upwards or downwards and on releasing the knob the
Bolt B shoots into the holes C thus holding the plate L firm and secure.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination of a spring & bolt for securing the adjustment for Window
Blind Cords in the manner and for the purpose substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The spring and bolt substantially as set forth and illustrated in fig. 2 of the
accompanying drawings.
3. The adjustment for securing and keeping tight Window Blind Cords herein before
described and represented in figures 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 of the accompanying Drawings.
HENRY WILLIAM BEAN,
81, Midland Road, Wellingborough,
Commercial Clerk.