Improvements in Apparatus for Adjusting Window-blind Cords and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct.,
1897
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1898-Accepted, 6th Aug., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Adjusting Window-blind Cords
and the like.
I, WILLIAM PEEL, of Cobbler's Hill, Birstall, near Leeds, in the County of York,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a radial plate secured in position by screws or other
in the centre of the plate is a raised bush or collar, and at a distance are
radial teeth or projections.
means;
Into the central bush or collar is tapped or screwed a stud, and upon the radial
plate is a small disc with an arm carrying the cord or other pulley. The said arm
has a rib or projection which engages with the radial recesses or teeth upon the
radial plate, and the stud or screw holds the arm in the adjusted position.
To adjust or tighten the cord upon the pulley the stud is unscrewed and the
arm turned to the right or left: the screw then tightens or binds the projection on
the arm in the corresponding recess in the teeth at any point it may be placed.
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Improvements in Apparatus for Adjusting Window-blind Cords
and the like.
I, WILLIAM PEEL, of Cobbler's Hill, Birstall, near Leeds, in the County of York,
Gentleman, 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 object of my invention is to provide an improved means for adjusting cords
on pulleys, such as window-blind cords and the like.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved cord adjuster.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation, in section, of Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views showing the internal mechanism of the adjuster.
I employ a circular plate or body A, which is secured in position by screws B
or by any other suitable means. The said plate A has a central bush or collar C,

page_text: and has on its face an annular series of teeth or projections D (as shown in detail
in Fig. 4). A stud or spindle E is screwed, cast, or fixed in any suitable manner
into the said bush or collar C, the said stud or spindle E passing through the outer
casing or disc F, which has an arm G carrying the cord pulley H or the like.
The said arm & terminates within the outer casing or disc F in a rib or projection K
(as shown in detail in Fig. 4), which engages with the teeth or projections D on
the plate or body A, the said rib or projection K being locked in any desired position
by means of a nut L screwing on the end of the stud or spindle E.
To tighten or slacken the cord M upon the pulley, the nut L is unscrewed and
the disc F, with its arm G and cord pulley H, is turned on the central stud or
spindle E. This brings the said pulley H to any required position such as N
(see Fig. 1), the nut L is then tightened, locking the arm G by means of the
teeth 1 engaging the rib or projection K.
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:-
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1. An adjuster for window-blind cords and the like, in which the cord pulley
is carried on a revoluble arm mounted in any suitable manner on a fixed circular
plate or body, the said arm being locked and adjusted by means of a rib or tooth
engaging with radial teeth on the face of the said circular plate or body, substan-
tially as shown and described.
2. In a cord adjuster, the combination of the fixed plate or body A, central stud
or spindle E, teeth or projections D, revoluble outer casing or disc F carrying
arm G and cord pulley H, rib or projection K, and adjusting nut L, all arranged
substantially as, and for the purposes, shown and described.
Dated this 4th day of July 1898.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.