Improvements in Cornice Poles, Curtain Poles, and Portieres.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1896-Accepted. 5th Sept. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cornice Poles, Curtain Poles, and Portieres.
1, JOHN BENJAMIN WEST the younger, of Edmund Street, Seedley, Salford,
in the County of Lancaster, Pattern Card Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in cornice poles, curtain poles and
portieres and is designed to provide for the jointing of these together either for the
purpose of placing them in re-entering angles or of providing pivots or joints
which will allow the parts to move as required.
As applied to cornice and curtain poles in one piece of the pole, I insert a plug
made to fit the interior of the pole with a projecting end of approximately the same
size as the external diameter of the pole. If desired the projecting end of this plug
may be either larger or smaller than the pole or may be made to taper slightly
towards the end. The plug is secured by a screw or otherwise. The outer end is
covered with metal or is stained and varnished to match the pole and is curved or
rounded to fit into the interior or hollow of the adjoining piece. It is also
provided with a slit or saw-cut to receive a swivelling plate which is secured by a
pin, screw or similar device. The adjoining piece of pole is also plugged but the
plug is some distance from the end leaving the hollow end of the pole to embrace
the end of the first piece. This end is bevelled or inclined and the plug is also
provided with a slit. The two parts are connected together by a swivelling plate
which is pivoted to the two plugs-to one of which it may be pivoted a little out of
the centre.
As applied to portiere rods I make the jointing of them the same as described.
heretofore.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cornice Poles, Curtain Poles, and Portieres.
I JOHN BENJAMIN WEST, Junior of 57 Edmund Street, Seedley, Salford in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer of Domestic Appliances (formerly
Lithographer) do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what.
manuer the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in cornice poles, curtain poles and
portieres, and is designed to provide for the jointing of these together either for the
purpose of placing them at re-entering angles or for providing pivots or joints.
which will allow the parts to move as required.
Figure 1 is a view shewing joint with poles in section.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation through centre of joint.
Figure 3 and 4 is an exterior view shewing pole and joint disconnected.
Each part in the above figures are represented by the same reference letter and
number.

page_text: As applied to cornice and curtain poles, in one piece of the pole, P¹, I insert a
plug a, made to fit the interior of the pole P¹, with a projecting end a¹ of
approximately the same size as the external diameter of the pole P', the pole being
hollow or is bored hollow before the plug is inserted. If desired the projecting end
of this plug may be made either larger or smaller than the pole or be made to taper
slightly towards the end. The plug is secured by a screw a or otherwise. The
outer end is covered with metal, or is stained, polished or varnished to match the
pole, and is curved or rounded as to fit into the interior or hollow end of the adjoining
piece P. It is also provided with a slit or saw-cut a to receive a plate C to
swivel thereon, which is secured by a pin, screw a³, or similar device. The
adjoining piece of pole P is also plugged b, but the plug 6 is fixed some distance
inward from the mitred end of pole P, leaving the hollow end of the pole P, which
is bevelled or mitred b¹ and curved or hollowed on the inside 2, so as to embrace
the end of the first piece a¹. The plug b in this part of the pole is also provided
with a slit 63, in which is fixed the plate C a little out of centre, allowing the
round end a³ of the first plug a, after being secured, to swivel thereon.
As applied to portiere rods I make the jointing of them the same as described
heretofore.
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 :-
1. I claim the method of jointing two pieces of pole P and P¹ with two plugs a
and b and plate C, substantially as set forth.
2. I also claim the method of curving or hollowing the portion on the inside edge
of pole P Figure 1 and 3 at the bevelled or mitred end of the pole substantially as
set forth.
Dated this 25th day of July 1896.
JOHN BENJAMIN WEST, JR.,
57 Edmund Street, Seedley, Salford.