Improvements in Rods for Portieres, Bedsteads, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in Rods for Portieres, Bedsteads, and the like.
I, ABRAHAM ASHWORTH, of 160, Wellington Road, Eccles, in the County of
Lancaster, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as,
follows:-
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My object is to produce rods of metal or other suitable material, for portieres,
bedsteads, (especially the kind known as Persian bedsteads,) and the like,
of such a kind that the ornamental portion of the rod may be visible when the
curtain is attached, and in any position.
I accomplish this by forming a rod with a suitable slot along its length in
which slide suitable hooks or eyes or other suitable arrangement for the attachment
of the curtain. The ornamental portion of the rod it attached in duplicate on
each side of the slot and the curtain slides between the two ornaments or the two
sides of the ornament as the case may be.
One of my improvements in the slotted rod, consists in fitting attaching two or
more of the hook or other attachments together so that they can be slided bodily
along the rod and between the ornamental portions of the rod.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
7, South Corridor, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Agent to Applicant.
Improvements in Rods for Portieres, Bedsteads, and the like.
I, ABRAHAM ASHWORTH, of 160, Wellington Road, Eccles, in the County of
Lancaster, Agent, 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:-
My object is to produce rods of metal or other suitable material for portieres,
bedsteads, (especially the kind known as Persian" bedsteads,) and the like, of
such a kind, that the ornamental portion of the rod may be visible, when the
curtain is attached, on both sides of the curtain, and in any position.
I accomplish this by forming a rod with a suitable slot, or light rod, along its
length, (in or on which slide suitable hooks or eyes or other suitable arrangement
for the attachment of the curtain,) and attaching the ornamental portion of the
rod in duplicate on each side of the slot, or rod, so that the curtain when attached
slides between the two ornaments, or the two sides of the ornament as the case
may be.

page_text: To facilitate this, I attach a sufficient number of the sliding hooks, (or eyes or
other curtain attachments,) together, so that after the curtain is attached they can
be slided together between the ornamental portion of the rod.
Referring to the drawings sent herewith:
Fig. 1 shows a side view and Fig. 2 a cross section of my improved rod as
adapted for a Persian bedstead.
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a indicates a suitable hollow brass or metal rod, in a slot b in which, slide eyes c,
four of which are attached to rod d, (shown in dotted lines,) so that they can be
readily and bodily slided, with attached curtain between ornaments a¹ a¹ shown
attached on each side of rod a.
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:-
Ist. In an ornamental rod for portieres, bedsteads and the like; the combination
with a central slot, or rod, (with sliding curtain attachments,) of a duplicate
ornament on each side of the rod, between which the curtain slides, substantially
as described and shown herein before and in the accompanying drawings for the
purpose set forth.
2nd. In an ornamental rod for portieres, bedsteads and the like; the attachment
together by means of a suitable rod or tube of two or more suitable curtain attach-
ments, substantially as described and shown hereinbefore and in the accompanying
drawing, for the purpose set forth.
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JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
7, South Corridor, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Agent to Applicant.