A Device for Fastening Curtain Rosettes and similar Articles to Walls, Door Posts, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Fastening Curtain Rosettes and similar Articles to
Walls, Door Posts, and the like.
We LOUIS LEIPZIGER of 84, Hofchenstrasse, Merchant and RICHARD PREUSS.
of 12 Paradiesstrasse, Builder both of Breslau in the Empire of Germany do
hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:―
Our invention relates to a device for fastening curtain rosettes and similar
articles to the wall.
This device consists of two jaws provided with fastening hooks, which jaws are.
connected with each other by a hinge and are kept under tension by a spring.
In the accompanying drawings in which like letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts ;-
Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of the device.
Figure 2 a front view.
Figure 3 the mode of fastening the device to the wall.
Figure 4 represents a special constructional form of the jaws.
On their inner side the jaws a are each provided with a bar b possessing pointed
hooks or teeth c. The two jaws are connected by a hinge d, about whose pin e-
one or more spiral springs are wound the ends of which are secured to the jaws.
This spring tends to keep the jaws a always closed and is put under tension when
the jaws are opened. In order to fix the device to a corner of a wall the jaws a are
opened and the fastening hooks c are pressed into the wall. By reason of the
tension of the spring the jaws a are thus firmly pressed against the wall so that.
when using comparatively weak hooks a safe and durable fastening will be
obtained. One or both jaws a are provided with an eye in which a rosette / or
the like is secured. The described device possesses the material advantage in that,
in fastening the same, the wall will not sustain any perceptible injury, the
fastening may be effected easily and conveniently, and may be severed with equal.
facility.
The device is very portable and may be attached to any wall forming a corner,.
to door-posts and the like.
By making the jaws of appropriate form an elegant and ornate appearance may
be given to the device. For instance the form of a leaf as shown in Figure 4,.
appears particularly suitable for the jaws.
The device may of course be made of any appropriate material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion we declare that what we claim is ;-
A device for fastening curtain rosettes and similar articles to wall corners, door
posts and the like, consisting of two jaws a provided with fastening hooks b, which
jaws are adapted to turn about a hinge d and are held together by a spring
connecting part (spiral spring) d for the purpose of pressing the jaws firmly
against the wall by the tension of the said spring part, thereby permitting the

page_text: employment of weak fastening hooks not liable to cause any perceptible injury
to the wall.
Dated this 14th day of December 1895.
J. B. FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden, London, Agent for the Applicants.