Improvements in Brackets for Suspending or Holding Curtain-poles, Rods, Blind-rollers, Venetian Blinds, Cornices, and other similar objects.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 24th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Suspending or Holding Curtain-poles,
Rods, Blind-rollers, Venetian Blinds, Cornices, and other similar
objects.
I, HIRAM HUDSON, of 11, Holt Street, Higher Hillgate, Stockport, in the County
of Chester, Assurance and Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce a bracket which will serve the double
purpose of holding or suspending a blind roller and a curtain pole or rod, or a curtain
pole or rod or cornice and a venetian blind or shelving and piping or hat rails or other
similar objects.
To this end my invention consists in forming a bracket of suitable material and size,
the base of which 1 form with means for screwing the same to the desired place and
the top with means for receiving one or more poles or rods preferably by forming a
circular recess to receive a large pole or rod or by placing into the same a division
piece so as to create two or more similar recesses for one or more rods. Below the
said circular recess I form the said bracket with means for holding a roller blind, or
venetian blind, or piping, preferably by forming corresponding openings or flanges in
or on the same.
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F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Suspending or Holding Curtain-poles,
Rods, Blind-rollers, Venetian Blinds, Cornices, and other similar
objects.
I, HIRAM HUDSON, of 11, Holt Street, Higher Hillgate, Stockport, in the County
of Chester, Assurance and Commission Agent, 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 produce a bracket which will serve the double
purpose of holding or suspending a blind roller and a curtain pole or rod, or a curtain
pole or rod or cornice and a venetian blind, or shelving, piping or hat rails or other
similar objects.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures in which
Figs. 1, 2, 4 & 5 are side elevations. Fig. 1× a plan of Fig. 1 and Figs. 3 & 6
front views respectively of Figs. 2 & 5 formed according to my invention.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figs. 1, & 1x, the improvements
consist in the first place in forming a bracket of suitable material and size, the base
or inner end a of which I form with holes b for securing the same to the desired
place and the top with means for receiving one or more poles or rods preferably by
forming a circular recess d to receive a large pole c or one or two rods c, c² by placing
into the same a removable division piece e formed with a tongue e fitting into a
slot in the said bracket so as to create two or more similar recesses d¹ for the
reception of one or more rods c¹, c². When employing two of the said rods c¹, c², one
serves for holding a pair of white, and the other a pair of coloured curtains. Below
the said circular recess d I form the said bracket with a pivot hole ƒ for the reception
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page_text: of a roller blind f1 and with an opening g and rib h having a slotted flange h¹ for the
support of the top board of a venetian blind secured in position thereon by means of
a screw passed through the slotted flange h¹.
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The hanging of a white and a coloured pair of curtains by the said bracket may also
be facilitated by forming the same below the pole recess_d-with a hole
receive a rod c and dispensing with the said division piece e as shown in Figs. 2. 3
& 4. In lieu of forming the bracket described. in one piece, the part thereof
carrying the pole c or rods c¹, c² or rod c may be formed separately from the other
part, as shown in Figs. 5, & 6, so as to he screwed together if desired and for very
deep windows employed separately, the part supporting the venetian or roller blind
being fixed into the window recess and the part supporting the curtain pole and
rod or rods outside the same.
Instead of employing the blind roller f¹ below the aforesaid pole c or rods c, c², it
may be mounted on or above the same level as the latter, by forming the top rib h³ of
the bracket with the necessary pivot holes f.
The described brackets, which I form in rights and lefts and the pivot hole f of
either thereof with a slot 2, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. 1, 2, 4 & 5, to
permit of placing the blind roller, facilitate a much easier fixing of the venetian
blind and replacing of the cords on the pulleys than heretofore has been the case.
If it is desired to support a cornice or shelving by the said bracket, they are
placed and suitably secured onto the top rib h2 thereof which are formed with
screw holes, in this case however the roller blind would be employed in its lower
position..
In lieu of supporting by the bracket described, blind rollers, venetian blinds,
curtain poles or rods, cornice or shelving, other rods or piping may be similarly sup-
ported, either separately or in combination with any of the aforesaid objects by simply
forming the respective part in size correspondingly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not confine
myself to the exact proportion and shape of the brackets shown in the drawing
annexed as the same may be altered without departing from the nature of my invention,
but what I do claim, is-
1st. A combination bracket formed with pivot holes f curtain pole or rod
recesses d, d¹, ribs & h³ respectively adapted to support a blind roller f¹ curtain
pole c or rods c¹ & c², venetian blind and cornice, substantially as set forth with
reference to Figs. 1 & 1*.
2nd. A combination bracket formed with pivot holes f, curtain pole recess d and rod
hole c³, ribs & ³ respectively adapted to support a blind roller f¹, curtain pole c or
rod c, venetian blind and cornice, substantially as set forth with reference to
Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.
Dated this 19th day of December 1890.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.