An Improved Eye or Bracket for Stair, Curtain, and like Rods.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 25th Mar., 1893-Accepted. 20th May. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Eye or Bracket for Stair, Curtain, and like Rods.
SAMUEL STEPHEN SHARP Hollington 15 Albert Road, Handsworth Stafford-
shire Designer & Modeller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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The said stair eye consists of a small knob & two pieces of sheet metal cut &
stamped in a suitable shape.
The shape of the blanks are as follows on the sketch sheet, Fig. (1) & Fig. (2).
A is stamped to this shape Fig. (3) and B thus Fig. (4).
A. is placed over B & is secured by the small knob which acts as a pivot part A
being moveable & part B being fixed to the stairs.
The stair eye is a circular movement which acts on the said knob, the blank B
is slit as in sketch, part X being raised so as to form a support for the stair rod
when in position.
To take the stair rod out you raise part A by a slight pressure of the thumb or
finger, when the rod will roll gently out.
The advantages claimed for this my invention are as follows.
Its smoothness & simplicity of action & durability, having no springs or catches
of any kind to get out of order.
Also its good bold appearance combined with neatness, there being nothing
unsightly about it.
It is a neat, simple & compact contrivance.
I wish to patent it as an improved stair eye, the same action in a muslin or
curtain rod bracket & as a picture or mantle rod bracket.
G indicates the screw holes E the parts where the metal is bent, the small gap
at D is to allow for a clear bend, F is the pivot hole, the peg H on the small knob
passes through both metals & then flanged over, which secures both together.
Dated this 24th day of July 1892.
SAMUEL STEPHEN SHARP.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Eye or Bracket for Stair, Curtain, and like Rods.
SAMUEL STEPHEN SHARP Hollington 15 Albert Road Handsworth, Stafford-
shire Designer & Modeller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The said stair eye consists of a small knob and two pieces of sheet metal, cut
and stamped in a suitable shape. The shape of the blanks are as follows on the
sketch sheet Fig. (1) and (2). A is stamped to shape Fig. (3) and B Fig. (4).
A is placed over B and is secured by small knob which acts as a pivot, (A) being
moveable and (B) being fixed to the stairs. The stair eye has a circular move-
ment which acts on the knob. Blank (B) is slit as in sketch X, being raised to
form support for the rod when in position. To take the rod out you raise (A) by
a slight pressure of the thumb when the rod will roll out, there being nothing
unsightly about it. It is a neat simple & compact contrivance.
I wish to patent
it as an improved eye or bracket for stair, curtain & such like rods.
On sketch sheet (G) indicates the screw holes E the parts where the metal is
bent.
The small gap at D is to allow for a clear bend F is the pivot hole. The
peg H on the small knob passes through both metals and is then flanged over,
which secures both together.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
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The circular action working on central knob pivot, which gives perfect freedom
of action combined with security.
Dated this 24th day of March 1893.
SAMUEL STEPHEN SHARP.