An Improved Means for Securing Doormats, Rugs, Carpets, Druggets, or the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1997
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Means for Securing Doormats, Rugs, Carpets, Druggets,
or the like.
6 Lavender
I, FANNY HULME, wife of William Booth Hulme, Solicitor, of
Road, Worcester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to means for securing doormats, rugs, carpets, druggets,
or the like, and have for object to enable such articles to be held in position
when in use, and readily detachable for any purpose, in a simple and effective
manner.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I provide special carpet pins
or nails each formed with two heads, and in the case of securing a mat or rug on
the outside of a door-as for instance where flooring tiles are employed, I prefer to
form one head at a horizontal distance from the other, the inner or carpet head being,
by preference, connected to the pin, or nail, above the piercing portion thereof, while
the outer head is attached to a branch or lateral shank of the pin, which branch
passes through the doorway so as to lie partly beneath the closed door; and the
outer head is by preference, on a slightly higher level than the carpet head, whereby,
when the latter is close to the ground, the outer head is sufficiently raised to be
employed as hereinafter described.
This form of pin may, however, be employed, when desired, for carpets and druggets,
in which event, the branch carrying the "outer" head may be shorter, and the two
heads thus brought into closer horizontal proximity.
As a variation, I may dispense with the lateral shank or branch, and attach both
hends to the spike, pin, or nail, one above the other, and at a suitable distance
apart. Thus, when the pin or nail is driven into the floor, up to its lower head, the
upper head projects to some extent above it. I also provide, for attachment to
the under side of the rug, mat, carpet, or like articlo, spring clasps or eyes, of metal
or other suitable material and of convenient design, which eyes or clasps are each
formed to enclose two spaces of different area, connected by a narrow passage.
The larger space engages freely with the outer or upper head as the case may
be of the pin or nail before-mentioned, but the pin or nail cannot pass the narrow
junction without springing apart the limbs of the clasp or eye, and the smaller
enclosuro beyond, though large enough to freely accommodate the pin or nail, is too
small to permit of passage over the pin head. Thus the eyes, when pressed forward,
lock with the pins, and hold the mat, rug, or other article to which such eyes are
attached, firmly in position, but the spring will again give way to moderate force when
it is desired to unlock the apparatus.
The clasps or eyes may be secured to the fabric of the mat, rug, or other article
by various means, but I prefer to accomplish this by forming the clasps or eyes with
diverging points, the sides of such clasps being capable of being sprung together
and released after the pointed bases are threaded or pierced into the body of the
abric.
Variations in detail may be made, sach as in the design and material of the pins,
beads and eyes without departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
-Dated this 98th day of February 1896
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64 Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Means for Securing Doormats, Rugs, Carpets, Druggets,
or the like.
1, FANNY HULSE, wife of William Booth Hulme, Solicitor, of 6 Lavender Road
Worcester, 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:-
The improvements relate to means for securing doormais, rugs, carpets, draggets
or the like, and have for object to enable such articles to be held in position
when in use, and readily detachable for any purpose in a simple and effective
manner.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I provide special carpet
pins, fasteners or nails, each formed with two heads, nurt, in the case of
securing a mat or rug on the outside of a door as for instanco where
flooring tiles are employed,-I prefer to form one head at a horizontal distance
from the other, the inner or carpet head being, by preference, connected to
the pin or nail above the piercing portion thereof, while the outer head is
attached to a branch or lateral shank of the pin, which brunch may pass through
the doorway so as to lio parity beneath the closed door, and the outer head is, by
p.eference, on a slightly higher level than the carpet head, whereby, when the latter is
close to the ground, the outer head is sufficiently raised to be employed as
hereinafter described.
This form of pin may, however, be employed, when desired, for mais, carpets and
druggets, where the tiled flooring does not extend between the door jambs, in
which event the branch carrying the "outer" head may be shorter, and the two heads
thus brought into closer horizontal proximity.
As a variation, for seenring in position rugs, carpets or druggets in rooms, I may
dispense with the lateral shank or branch, and attach both heads to the spike, pin
or mail, one above the other, and at a suitable distance apart. Thus, when the pin
or nail is driven into the floor up to its lower head, the upper head projects to some
extent above it.
Both these latter heads may be formed solid with the spike, pin or nail, but, by
preference, the lower head is loosely connected thereto, like unto a washer, and the
spike, pin or mail formed with a shoulder or other abutment, to preserve the requisite
distance between the two heads.
I also provide, for attachment to the underside of the rug, mat, carpet or like
article, spring clasps or eyes, of metal or other suitable material, and of convenient
design, which eyes or clasps are each formed to enclose two spaces of different
area, connected by a
narrow passage. The larger space engages freely with the
outer or upper head, as the case may be, of the pin or nail beforementioned, but the
pin or nail cannot pass the narrow junction without springing apart the limbs of
the clasp or ove, and the smaller enclosure beyond, though large enough to freely
accommodate the pin or mail, is too small to perimit of passage over the pin head.
Thus the eyes, when pressed forward, luck with the pins, and hold the mat,
rug, or other article to which such eyes are attached, firmly in position; but the
spring will again give way to moderate force when it is desired to unlock the
apparatus.
The clasps or eyes may be secured to the fabric of the mat, rug or other articlo
by various means, but I prefer to accomplish this by forming the clasps or eyes
with diverging points, the sides of such clasps being capable of being sprang
together and released after the pointed bases are threaded or piorced into the body of
the fabric.

page_text: But that the improvements may be better understood, 1 will, with the aid of
the accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed
by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figs. 1. and 3. show a plan view and side elevation respectively of one form of
spring clasp or eye, and Figs. 2. and 4. show corresponding views of one form of
special carpet pin or nail suitable for securing a mat or rug on the outside of a door,
while Fig. 5. shows the same eye and pin interlocked.
Fig. 6. shows the underside of a piece of carpet, rug or the like, with a spring clasp
or eye attached to the same ready for connection to n pin.
Figs. 7. and 8. show a plan view and end elevation respectively of another form
of pin suitable for mats, carpets and druggets, where the tiled flooring does not
extend between the door jambs, the branch carrying the "outer" head being shorter
than in Figs. 2. 4. and 5. and the abutting head being shown formed for the
accommodation of separate piercing spikes or nails to secure it to the floor, instead of
being formed permanently therewith.
Fig. 9. shows a similar pin, with the abutting head turned up at right angles-
or it may be at any other angle-to the shank, such form being suitable for attach-
ment to the foot of a staircase or other vertical or angular surface; and Fig. 10.
shows a pin or nail, more especially adapted to rugs, carpets, druggets and the like
in rooms with both heads directly over the spike or piercing point, one above the
other.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a. is the spring clasp or eye, formed with the diverging points a¹ which engages
with the fabric of the carpet, rug, or the like, and are thus locked in position.
. is the "outer" or engaging head of the carpet or other pin or nail, and c. the
abutting head, connected thereto (in Figs. 2. 4. 5. 7. 8. and 9.) by the branch or
lateral shank e.
d. is a piece of carpet or other fabric to which is pinned the clasp a.
f. are holes, formed (in the case of Figs. 7. 8. and 9.) in the abutting head c,
through which holes spikes g. are driven into the floor, to secure the pin in position.
In Figs. 2. 4. and 5. the spikes g. are shown fixed to the abutting head c, while in
Fig. 10. g. is shown connected to the engaging head b. by the shank 9. c. being
pierced after the manner of a washer, and forming a head or abutment when the
spike g. is driven into the floor.
At g' this nail is shown of greater diameter than the hole in the washer e. to
keep apart the two heads.
To connect the pin with the clasp attached to the carpet or rug, the engaging
head b. is passed through the large space of the clasp a. when the neck of the shank
is forced past the narrow junction a' into the position shown in Fig. 5.
Variations in detail may be made, such as in the design and material, and relative
dimensions, of the pins, heads and eyes, the number and position of the piercing
spikes for each pin, and the form of the shank or branch; also modifications may
be made by employing other forms of rings or hooks in lieu of the particular shape
of clasps or eyes herein described, without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declaro that what I
claim is :-
1. In means for securing doormats, rugs, carpets, druggets or the like, a pin or
nail-formed with two heads connected to each other either by a lateral branch or
vertical shank, so that when one head is driven close to the floor the other head
projects some distance above or beyond,-combined with a clasp or eye, ring or hook
attached to the fabric to be secured, for the purpose and in manner substantially as
herein shown and described.

page_text: 2. In means for securing doormats, rugs, carpets,, draggets or the like, a spring
clasp or eye-formed with diverging piercing points which aro threaded into the
fabric to be secured, and are kept apart by the spring of the clasp-combined with a
carpet pin, mail, or look, for the purpose and in manner substantially as heroin shown
and described.
3. In means for securing doormats, rugs, carpets, druggets or the like, tho
combination of particular parts for the special purpose and in manner. substantially
as herein shown and described.
Dated this 17th day of November 1896.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64 Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.