Improvements in Pins suitable for Supporting Curtains.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 13th Aug.. 1890-Accepted, 20th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins suitable for Supporting Curtains.
1, COURTENAY SPENCER FOSTER, of Seafield Park, near Fareham, in the County of
Hants, Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in pins suitable for supporting
curtains.
Pins are commonly made for attaching curtains to curtain rings. These pins
resemble in the main ordinary safety pins but differ from these in that in the centre
of the upper or guard limb provision is made for the connection of the curtain pin
with the ring. Now in curtain pins of this class the weight of the curtain is very
liable to bend the lower limb or pin.
Now I support the lower limb from the upper by means of a hook engaging
with it.
My improved curtain pin is made of wire bent to form ; at one end of the wire is a
spiral forming the guard for receiving and securing the pins point in the usual
manner; this guard is at one extremity of the upper limb of the curtain pin. In the
middle of this upper limb the wire is twisted upon itself into a stem which being bent
into the form of a double hook serves both to connect the curtain pin with the curtain
ring (or other support whatever it may be) and also to engage with the lower limb of
the curtain pin.
Tracing the wire onwards from the double hook, it passes to the inner end of the
upper limb and here it is bent into a scroll which serves as the spring. From the
scroll the lower limb of the curtain pin projects parallel to the upper limb and this
limb is arranged to lie both in the double hook which forms its central support and
also in the point guard.
The wire terminates in or near the guard in a sharp point. In making the spring
scroll the end of the wire may be passed through the loop.
In place of a single central support there may be two or more.
The central supports may also be applied to other pins of the "safety" type.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins suitable for Supporting Curtains.
I, COURTENAY SPENCER FOSTER, of Seafield Park near Fareham, in the County of
Hants, Clerk in Holy Orders, 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 :-
This invention has for its object improvements in pins suitable for supporting
ourtains.
Pins are commonly made for attaching curtains to curtain rings. These pins
resemble in the main ordinary safety pins but differ from these in that in the centre
of the upper or guard limb provision is made for the connection of the curtain pin
with the ring. Now in curtain pins of this class the weight of the curtain is very
liable to bend the lower limb or pin.
Now I support the lower limb from the upper by means of a hook engaging
with it.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into effect
I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
[Price 6d 1

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a curtain pin made in accordance with my
invention.
My improved curtain pin is made of wire bent to form ; at one end of the wire at a
is a spiral forming the guard for receiving and securing the pins point 6 in the usual
manner; this guard is at one extremity of the upper limb of the curtain pin. In the
middle of this upper limb the wire is twisted upon itself into a stem c which being
bent into the form of a double hook serves both to connect the curtain pin with the
curtain ring d (or other support whatever it may be) and also to engage with the
lower limbe of the curtain pin.
Tracing the wire onwards from the double hook, it passes to the inner end of the
upper limb and here at f it is bent into a scroll which serves as the spring. From
the scroll the lower limb of the curtain pin projects parallel to the upper limb and
this limb is arranged to lie both in the double hook e which forms its central support
and also in the point guard a.
The wire terminates in or near the guard in a sharp point b. In making the spring
scroll the end of the wire may he passed through the loop.
Figure 2 shows a modification; it is a perspective view of a curtain pin made in
accordance with my invention with a supporting hook to carry the lower limb of the
pin but this is made of sheet metal and clipped on to the upper limb of the pin. The
double hook in this figure is marked C, the other parts are lettered as in Figure 1.
In place of a single central support there may be two or more.
The central supports may also be applied to other pins of the "safety" type.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. Pins substantially as described and suitable for supporting curtains and having
a hook or intermediate support for sustaining the lower limb of the pin from the upper
as herein set forth.
2. Pins substantially as described and represented by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 12th day of August 1890.