other Articles to Cornice and other Poles and Rods.
Year: 1885

page_text: other Articles to Cornice and other Poles and Rods.
I WILLIAM WEST of N° 42 Caroline Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturing Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN RINGS OR CLIPS FOR SUSPENDING CURTAINS AND
OTHER ARTICLES TO CORNICE AND OTHER POLES AND RODS to be as follows:-
My invention consists in constructing rings or clips for suspending curtains and
other articles to cornice and other poles and rods in houses shop windows and other
places in the manner herein after described whereby the curtains or other articles
are readily suspended to and removed from the ring or clip on the pole or rod and
the ring or clip readily connected to and disconnected from the pole or rod.
I will describe my invention as applied to rings or clips for suspending curtains
to cornice poles or rods.
I make the ring or clip of two semi circular halves jointed together at top so
that the said halves can open from or close upon one another.
The two halves are pressed together by a strong plate spring bearing upon the
outside of the halves below the joint on which they turn the free ends of the
halves of the ring or clip are bent at right angles to the other parts and the extreme
ends are turned inwards and serrated the opposed bent parts when the serrations
are engaged together being situated at a short distance apart. The serrated ends
of the halves of the ring or clip constitute toothed jaws between which the curtain
is gripped the part of the curtain above the gripping jaws occupying the space
between the opposed bent ends described. Instead of forming teeth at the edges
of the bent ends of the halves of the ring or clip pins on one edge may take into
holes or depressions in the other edge By opening out the jointed spring jaws of
the ring or clip it may be passed onto the cornice pole or rod and secured thereon
by the closing of the spring jaws upon the said pole or rod.
Instead of making the ring or clip of two jointed halves it may be made in one
piece the jaws or clipping ends being pressed together by a spring or the ring or
clip may be made of steel or other elastic metal the elasticity of the metal causing
the jaws or clipping ends of the ring or clip to close upon one another.
Or instead of using serrated or toothed jaws a tubular ring having a portion cut
away may be used the gap between the two ends being closed and opened by a

page_text: spring bolt working in the tubular ring. The end of the said bolt is serrated and
when in its closed position grips the curtain between its serrated end and the
opposite end of the ring which is also serrated. The spring bolt is withdrawn
from the gap in the ring by means of a finger plate on the bolt working in a slot
in the ring. A fixed thumb plate at one side of the gap is made for the thumb to
bear against on withdrawing the spring bolt by the finger operating on the finger
plate at the opposite side of the gap. The bolt can thus be withdrawn by the use
of one hand.
My improved rings or clips may be covered with wood or other non-metallic
material and where the parts are jointed together they may be made of wood or
other hard and durable non-metallic material.

page_text: Improvements in Rings or Clips for Suspending Curtains and
other Articles to Cornice and other Poles and Rods.
I WILLIAM WEST of N° 42 Caroline Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of the 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 consists in constructing rings or clips for suspending curtains and
other articles to cornice and other poles and rods in houses, shop windows and
other places, in the manner hereinafter described, whereby the curtains or other
articles are readily suspended to and removed from the ring or clip on the pole
or rod and the ring or clip readily connected to and disconnected from the pole
or rod.
I will describe my invention as applied to ringa or clips for suspending curtains
to cornice poles or rods.
I make the ring or clip of two semi circular halves jointed together at top so
that the said halves can open from or close upon one another. The two halves are
pressed together by a strong plate spring bearing upon the outside of the halves
below the joint on which they turn, or situated inside the halves. The free ends
of the halves of the ring or clip are bent at right angles to the other parts and
the extreme ends are turned inwards and serrated the opposed bent parts when
the serrations are engaged together being situated at a short distance apart. The
serrated ends of the halves of the ring or clip constitute toothed jaws between
which the curtain is gripped the part of the curtain above the gripping jaws
occupying the space between the opposed bent ends described.
Instead of forming teeth at the edges of the bent ends of the halves of the ring
or clip, pins on one edge may take into holes or depressions in the other edge. By
opening out the jointed spring jaws of the ring or clip it may be passed onto the
cornice pole or rod and secured thereon by the closing of the spring jaws upon
the said pole or rod.
The rings or clips may be made in one piece instead of jointed halves.
.Or instead of using serrated or toothed jaws a tubular ring having a portion cut
away may be used the gap between the two ends being closed and opened by
a spring bolt working in the tubular ring. The end of the said bolt is serrated
and when in its closed position grips the curtain between its serrated end and the
opposite end of the ring which is also serrated. The spring bolt is withdrawn from
the gap in the ring by means of a finger plate on the bolt working in a slot in the
ring. A fixed thumb plate at one side of the gap is made for the thumb to bear
against on withdrawing the spring bolt by the finger operating on the finger plate
at the opposite side of the gap. The bolt can thus be withdrawn by the use of
one hand.
My improved rings or clips may be covered with wood or other non metallic
material and when the parts are jointed together they may be made of wood or
other hard and durable non-metallic material,

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Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent elevations taken at
right angles to one another and Figure 3 represents in plan a metallic ring or
clip made according to one of my improvements; a, b are the two semi circular
halves of the ring jointed at top by a knuckle joint and cross pin at c.
halves a, b are pressed together so as to close the ring by the outside plate spring d
the free ends of which work between the holding guides e, e and press on opposite
sides of the joint c on which the halves turn; ff are the toothed or serrated jaws
at the free ends of the half rings a, b between which jaws the curtain is gripped.
A stop hat the joint c of the two halves a, b limits the opening of the ring. By
opening out or separating the spring jaws f, f the ring or clip may be passed onto
the cornice pole or rod and secured thereon by the closing of the spring jaws upon
the said pole or rod. In order to suspend the curtain by the ring or clip the
jaws ff are slightly opened and the curtain passed between the open jaws and
made to occupy the space at i between the bent ends of the jaws. By loosing the
spring jaws they close upon and grip the curtain and the curtain is thus suspended
to the pole or rod.
Instead of making the meeting edges of the gripping jaws into teeth the bent
ends of the jaws may have serrations or teeth of india rubber applied to them as
represented in front elevation in Figure 4 and plan in Figure 5. In Figure 4 the
india rubber serrated jaws are marked k, k.
Figure 6 represents a curtain ring or clip made of wood or other hard non-metallic
material.
In this ring the two halves l, m are connected together and closed upon one
another by the external plate spring n and the free ends of the half rings are
provided with india rubber serrated jaws 1, m³ for gripping the curtain.
Figure 7 represents in front elevation; Figure 8 in side elevation Figure 9 in
vertical section and Figure 10 in plan of upper side, partly in cross section,
another metallic curtain ring or clip made according to my invention; Figure 11
represents in side elevation and front elevation, one of the gripping ends of the
ring separately. In this ring the metallic halves a, b are tubular, the said halves
being pressed together to close the gripping jaws by an internal double band
spring p passing through both halves and fixed at its ends p', p³ near the free ends
of the half rings. The upper ends of the half rings are jointed together by the
connecting piece or link q the ends of which are engaged in slots in the said half
rings (see Figures 9 and 10). The spring gripping jaws in this arrangement
consist of discs r, r on the opposed faces of which pins or teeth are arranged in
the manner represented for gripping the curtain Or instead of making the
gripping jaws of teeth or pins arranged on the discs the gripping faces of the discs
may be covered with or have attached to them india rubber serrated pieces of the
kind represented in Figure 12. Or the face of one of the metal discs may be
furnished with pointed pins which take into holes or depressions in the opposite
disc of the gripping jaws as represented in Figure 13 and a portion of the same in
Figure 14. Or india rubber gripping faces may be combined with the arrangement
represented in Figure 13. In this case holes are made through the toothed face of
one jaw for the pins on the other jaw to pass through when the jaws are closed.
In small rings or clips a single internal spring may be used in the tubular halves
of the ring and the holding clip at the joint part of the ring may be dispensed
with as represented in Figure 15.
Instead of making the ring or clip of two jointed halves it may be made in one
piece, the jaws or clipping ends being pressed together by a spring as described
with respect to a ring made in halves; or the ring or clip in one piece may be
made of steel or other elastic metal the elasticity of the metal causing the jaws or
clipping ends of the rings to close upon one another.
Figures 16 and 17 represent in section a ring or clip in which a spring bolt is
used; Figure 16 representing the ring open for passing it onto the pole or rod or
for suspending the curtain and Figure 17 the ring closed; s is the tubular ring
made in one piece and having a gap or cut away portion at a. The said gap is

page_text: opened and closed by the bolt t consisting of a band working in the tubular ring.
Around one end of the bolt t is a coiled spring u bearing at one end against the
ring and at the other end against the gripping plate at the end of the bolt.
The opposite end of the ring a carries a gripping plates; x is a finger plate on
the bolt for withdrawing it from the gap 8. The said finger plate works in slots
in the ring; y is a fixed thumb plate at one side of the gap 82 for the thumb to
bear against on withdrawing the spring bolt t. When the finger plate x is pressed
into the position represented in Figure 17 the bolt t is withdrawn and the gap 8*
in the ring is opened, the coiled spring u being compressed as represented. When
the thumb plate is loosed the spring shoots the bolt into the position
represented in Figure 16 and closes the gap 83 and the curtain is gripped between
the gripping plate t of the bolt and the gripping plate 8 on one end of the ring 8.
Any of the kinds of gripping parts herein before described and represented may be
applied to the gripping ends of the bolt and ring.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in rings or clips for suspending curtains and other
articles to cornice and other poles and rods";—
First Making each of the said rings or clips of two semi circular halves jointed
or connected together and providing the free ends of the said jointed halves with
gripping jaws constructed substantially as described and illustrated, the free or
unjointed ends of the half rings carrying the gripping jaws being pressed together
by an external or internal spring substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 1 to 15 both inclusive of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly-Providing rings or clips made of one piece of metal with gripping
jaws of the kind hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
Thirdly Making rings of a tubular piece of metal having a gap or portion
cut away between its ends, which gap is opened and closed by a spring bolt, the
several parts being arranged and acting substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 16 and 17 of the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this Eleventh day of June 1886