Improvements in Curtain Frames.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug. 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1898
Improvements in Curtain Frames.
I, WILLIAM STOTHER, of 11, Bomore Road, Notting Hill, in the County of
London, Curtain Frame Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in curtain frames and has for object to
so arrange such frames that they may be used for stretching and drying curtains
of different sizes simultaneously whereby the whole of the frame can be utilised.
According to my invention form the frame with a fixed head piece at each end
and reversible adjustable uprights provided with catches adapted to take into
holes formed in the top bar. Fixed uprights are also provide formed with slots
to receive bolts to support an adjustable longitudinal bar having holes to receive a
holder or catch for fixing the adjustable uprights in the desired position.
Instead of the catches and holes I sometimes employ racks the teeth of which
are so arranged that the clicks or pawls can be moved in either direction.
Tlie improved frame is provided with hard wood edging fitted with teeth in the
usual manner.
It will be obvious that my improved frames can be formed double or back
to back.
From this construction it will be seen that the whole extent of the frame can be
utilised as the adjustable uprights can be moved to accord with the size of the
curtains whereby curtains of different sizes can be stretohed and dried at the same
time and by employing two fixed head pieces the curtains can be fixed from right
to left or left to right as required.
Dated the 19th dòe of November 1905
Improvements in Ourtain Frames.
I, WILLIAM STOTHER, of 11, Bomore Road, Notting Hill, in the County of
London, Curtain Frame Maker, 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:-
J
This invention relates to improvements in curtain frames and has for object to
so arrange such frames that they may be used for stretching and drying curtains
of different sizes simultaneously whereby the whole of the frame can be utilized.
According to my invention I form the frame with a fixed head piece at each end
and reversible adjustable uprights provided with catches or pins adapted to take
into holes formed in the top bar. Fixed uprights are also provided formed with
slots to receive bolts to support an adjustable longitudinal bar having holes to
receive a holder or catch for fixing the adjustable uprights in the desired position.
Instead of the catches and holes I sometimes employ ratchet mechanism, the

page_text: teeth of which are so arranged that the clicks or pawls can be moved in either
direction.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describo it by reference to
the accompanying drawings, in which :—
Figure 1 is an elevation of a curtain frame constructed according to my
invention :
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3-3 Figure 1:
Figure 4 is an elevation of the upper end of one of the adjustable uprights:
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation of the same at right angles to Figure 4:
Figure 6 is an elevation shewing the holder or catch for fixing the adjustable
uprights in position :
Figure 7 is a sectional plan of the same:
Figure 8 is an elevation shewing the method of securing the longitudinal bar to
the fixed uprights:
Figure 9 is an elevation at right angles to Figure 8:
Figure 10 is a sectional plan of the arrangement:
Figure 1 is a view similar to Figure 4 of a modification.:
Figure 12 is a sectional elevation at right angles to Figure 11:
Figure 13 is a view of a detail:
Figure 14 is a view similar to Figure 6 of a modification:
Figure 15 is a sectional elevation at right angles to Figure 14; and
Figure 16 is a sectional plan of the arrangement.
Figures 4-16 are drawn to a larger scale than Figures 1-3.
a, a are the fixed head pieces of the frame, and the top bar of the same,
c, c are the reversible adjustable uprights, the said uprights being provided at
each end with a catch for securing them in position on the top bar b. In Figures 4
and 5 the catch is shewn as formed of a bracket or plate & screwed to the upright o
and having a downwardly projecting pin e adapted to take into the holes f,in the
top bar b.
in
9, 9 (Figures 6, 7 and 8) are the fixed uprights, and h, the vertical slots in the
same. i is the adjustable longitudinal bar, and j, j are the holes formed in the
same, the said holes being designed, as above described, to receive the holder or
catch for the purpose of holding the adjustable uprights in the desired position
on the longitudinal bar i. The longitudinal bar is provided with guides
which the fixed uprights slide and is fixed in position by means of bolts 1, 1 which
pass through the slots h in the fixed uprights g, and thumb nuts m which are
screwed on to the bolts as shewn clearly in Figures 8, 9 and 10. The said
longitudinal bar is held in a horizontal position in the frame by means of end
guides n, n which engage with the fixed head pieces a, a.
Figures 11, 12 and 13 illustrate, as above mentioned, the modification in which
the pins e and holes fare replaced by a catch or tooth el on the bracket d and a
rack. It will be obvious that the tooth el engages with the teeth of the rack f
Bo as to hold the adjustable uprights e in the required position in the same manner
as the pin and-hole arrangement.
Figures 14, 15 and 16 illustrate a modified form of mechanism whereby the
adjustable uprights c, c are secured, in the desired position, to the longitudinal
bar . In this arrangement the holes j, j and the pin k are replaced by a rack j
fitted to the longitudinal bar i and pawls k pivoted to the holder or catch the
said pawls being adapted to engage with the teeth of the rack so as to hold the
uprights in position. The teeth are, as shewn, so formed as to allow the pawls to
move in both directions and each upright has two pawls so that it can be secured
in its reversed position.
o, o are the usual hard wood edgings provided with teeth p as shewn clearly in
the drawing.
It will be obvious that my improved frames can be formed double, that is to say,
two frames may be secured back to back.

page_text: With this construction of curtain frame, it will be seen that the whole extent of
the frame can be utilized, which was not the case with frames as hitherto con--
structed, as the adjustable uprights can be moved to suit the size of the curtains to
be stretched in such a manner that curtains of different sizes may be stretched and
dried simultaneously, and as I employ two fixed head pieces the curtains can be
fixed from right to left or from left to right as desired.
It will be obvious that my improvements can be applied to horizontal frames as
well as to vertical frames.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manuer the same is to be performed, I declare that what !
claim is :-
:-
1. A curtain frame having fixed head pieces, reversible adjustable uprights,.
fixed uprights and an adjustable longitudinal bar, substantially as, and for the
purpose, herein before described.
2. A curtain frame having fixed uprights, a longitudinal bar provided with means
for adjustably fixing it to the said fixed uprights and reversible adjustable uprights-
provided with means for securing them to the frame and to the longitudinal bar,.
substantially as described.
3. In a curtain frame of the kind described in the second claiming clause,.
forming each of the fixed uprights with a slot in which a bolt is adapted to slide,
the said bolt being designed to fix the longitudinal bar in position, substantially as
desoribed.
4. In a curtain frame of the kind described in Claim 2, fixing the reversible
adjustable uprights to the top bar of the frame by means of pins and holes or
catches and racks and to the longitudinal bar by means of pins and holes or racks
and pawls, substantially as described.
5. The improvements in curtain frames herein before described and illustrated in.
the accompanying drawings.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant..