AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR ATTACHING VALAnces, Curtains, AND OTHER TRIMMINGS TO METALLIC OR WOODEN BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mary Ann Dearden, of Balby, near Doncaster, in the
County of York, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR
ATTACHING VALAnces, Curtains, AND OTHER TRIMMINGS TO METALLIC OR
WOODEN BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mary Ann Dearden at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th October 1881.
MARY ANN DEARDEN, of Balby, near Doncaster, in the County of York. "AN
IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR ATTACHING VALANCES, CURTAINS, AND OTHER TRIMMINGS
TO METALLIC OR WOODEN BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE."
This Invention relates to an improved method of attaching valances, curtains,
and other trimmings to metallic or wooden bedsteads and other articles of furniture,
and consists of a metal blade or plate with a tongue or hook formed therein or
attached thereto. The metal blade or plate is made of a comparatively ductile
material, so that it may be readily bent by hand to any required form, and will
retain the form so given.
For the purpose of hanging valances (for example) to the horizontal bed frame
or bar, whether of wood or iron, I bend the metal blade or plate as aforesaid over
the same, so that the ends grasp the bed frame or bar in such manner as to give
the tongues or hooks a position in the same horizontal plane, and having threaded
the respective valances on wire or laths or other suitable material I hang the same
on the tongues or hooks.
These attachments may be used, and are readily interchangeable in the case of
frames or bars of varying forms and dimensions.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Mary Ann Dearden in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
April 1882.
"
MARY ANN DEARDEN, of Balby, near Doncaster, in the County of York. AN
IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR ATTACHING VALANCES, CURTAINS, AND OTHER TRIMMINGS
TO METALLIC OR WOODEN BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNTIURE."
This Invention relates to an improved method of attaching valances, curtains,
and other trimmings to metallic or wooden bedsteads and other articles of furniture,
and consists of a metal blade or plate with a tongue or hook formed therein or
attached thereto. The metal blade or plate is made of any suitable width and of a
comparatively ductile material, so that it may be readily bent by hand to any
required form, and will retain the form so given.
For the purpose of hanging valances I first complete the making up of the
valance; I then at the back of same near the top edge attach borizontally or
otherwise a tape just wide enough to admit of laths passing through, leaving a
vacancy top and bottom of the tape corresponding with the situation of each of the
said metal tongues or hooks; I then slide the laths into the tape, securing it at
each end to the valance by a stitch through holes provided at each end of the
laths.
To the horizontal bed frame or bar I bend the metal blade or plate as aforesaid
over the same, so that the ends grasp the bed frame or bar in such manner as to
give the tongues or books a position in the same horizontal bed frame, and having
threaded the respective valances on flat wire or thin metal laths, or of any suitable
material, I hang the same on the tongues or hooks. For wooden bedsteads the
hooks are nailed on to the bed frame and the valance hung on as before mentioned.
These attachments may be used, and are readily interchangeable in the case of
frames or bars of varying forms and dimensions.
Figure 1, side view of metal blade or plate with a tougue or hook formed therein
or attached thereto.
Figure 2, the same, the ends of which are bent over the horizontal angle iron
bed frame; Figure 3, front view of Fig. 2.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be performed, I would observe in conclusion
that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein given and shown in the
accompanying Drawings, as various modifications may be made therein, but what
I claim as my Invention is as herein before described and illustrated, or any
modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mary Ann Dearden,, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.