Improvements in Stair Rod Eyes or Fastenings and in Stair Rod.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stair Rod Eyes or Fastenings and in Stair Rod.
We, ARENT DE PEYSTER CHANCE, of Tyndall Works, Sloane Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and THOMAS SMART LUCAS, of No. 48,
Murdock Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Cashier, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter describ d in stair
rod eyes or fastenings and in the stair rods to be used with the same, the said
improvements having reference principally to the construction and arrangement
or combination of the parts of the stair rod eyes or fastenings, the improvements
in the stair rods having for their object to permit the use of stair rods of
an angular figure in cross section with stair rod eyes or fastings of the said
invention.
We will describe the said invention first in connection with a stair rod of a
triangular figure in cross section.
We form one of the stair rod eyes or fastenings preferably that to be used
at the left hand end of the stair rod, of a box like form the opening in which is
of a size and shape suitable to receive the left hand end of the rod, the opening
in the box like eye or fastener being presented to that side of the eye or fastener
which is to receive the end of the rod. The closed side of the eye or fastener
carries an ornament which replaces the terminal ornament with which the stair
rod is ordinarily provided. The stair rod is engaged with this, the left hand eye
or fastener by an endwise motion.
The other or right hand stair rod eye or fastener has an opening or slot in
its front or inclined face and in the box like opening of the said fastener is
fitted a nearly tubular socket capable of turning in a circular seat in the box like
opening of the eye or fastener so that the open or slotted side of the socket may
be brought opposite and made to coincide with the slot herein before referred to
in the front or inclined face of the eye or fastener; or the said sockect may be
turned so as to close the slot in the said front face of the eve or faster.
The
ornamental end on the closed side of the box like eve or fastener is connected
ly a pin or pivot with the socket described so as to constitute a thumb piece
by which the said socket may be turned, a pin or stop on the closed side of
the eye or fastener limiting the motion of the ornamental end or thumb piece in
one or other direction.
In order to permit of the engagement of the triangular stair rod with the right
hand eye or fastener, described the right hand end of the rod is plugged with a short
picce of cylindrical rod the end of which projects from the end of the triangular
Stair rod and engages with the eye described by being passed through the op. ned
slot and being retained therein by the turning of the socket by means of its
ornamental end or thumb piece, the slot in the socket bing turned away from
the slot in the eve or fastener.
White the rod is cylindrical or approximately cylindrical the interior of the

page_text: left hand eye or fastener is correspondingly shaped and the right hand end of
the rod requires no modification or addition to fit it to engage with the right hand
eye or fastener last described.
According to another arrangement of the said invention we form from sheet
brass or other ductile sheet metal or alloy by stamping and piercing processes,
a foundation or fixing plate having a semi-circular or nearly semi-circular
depression or trough at the angle or junction of the vertical and horizontal parts
of the fixing plate. The said fixing plate has a vertical disc at the side which
we will hereinafter call the closed side. In the said depression or trough shaped
seat of the fixing plate of the left hand fastener we fit a short tube or ferrule
closed at one end and flanged at its other end, the closed end taking against the
disc of the closed side of the fixing plate described. To the other side of
the closing dise we fit an ornamental end, the ornamental end, closing disc and
tube or ferrule being connected together preferably by a rivet.
The other or right hand eye or fastener resembles generally that last described
excepting that the tube or ferrule is open at one side and is capable of turning
in its trough shaped seat, the ornamental end on the outer side of the eye or
fastener being so connected to the open sided tube or ferrule as to constitute a
thumb piece for the same. The turning motion of the open sided tube is limited
by a stop. When the thumb piece or ornamental end is turned in one direction
the slot in the tube is brought into such a position as to permit of the passing
of the end of the stair rod therein and when turned in the other direction after
the introduction of the end of the stair rod constitutes with the trough shaped
seat of the fixing plate a complete eye in which the end of the stair rod is held,
the turned tube covering the end of the stair rod within the eye.
For stair rods of the kind commonly called half round rods the fixing plate of the
right hand eye or fastener has an inclined face or seat on which the flat face of
the half round rod takes and seats itself. At the middle of the said inclined
face or seat and on the outer side of the same is a pin or pivot on which a disc
carrying the ornamental end or thumb piece and also a semi-circular covering
plate for the end of the rod is fixed so as to be capable of turning thereon. At
the bottom of the inclined face or seat of the fixing plate is a slot through
which the semi-circular covering plate of the eye or fastener passes on the turning
of the ornamental end or thumb piece to uncover an unfastin the end of the half
round stair rod, the semi-circular covering plate of the eye passing under the
inclined face or seat of the fixing plate.
For rods having an elliptical figure in cross section we adopt the arangement
last described making the seat of the right hand stair rod eye or fastener semi-
eiliptical or we make the right hand end of the rod cylindrical as in the case of
the triangular rod first described and employ an eye or fastener of the kind
described with reference to the right hand end of the triangular rod.
We wish it to be understood that the stair rod eyes or fasteners which we
have herein before described for use at the right hand end of the stair rod may
be used at the left hand end of the rod instead of at the right hand end or both
at the right end as well as at the left hand end.
Dated this Fifteenth day of September 1898.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
improve ents in Stair Rod Eyes or Fastenings and in Stair Rods.
We, ARENT DE PEYSTER CHANCE, of Tyndall Works, Sloane Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufactur r, and Tuovas SMART LUCAS, of No. 48,
improve
ents in Stair Rod Eyes or Fastenings and in Stair Rods.
We, ARENT DE PEYSTER CHANCE, of Tyndall Works, Sloane Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufactur r, and Tuovas SMART LUCAS, of No. 48,

page_text: Murdock Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Cashier, do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in stair
rod eyes or fastenings and in the stair rods to be used with the same, the said
improvements having reference principally to the construction and arrangement
or combination of the parts of the stair rod eyes or fastenings, the improvements
in the stair rods having for their object to permit the use of stair rods of
an angular figure in cross section with stair rod eyes or fastenings of the said
invention.
We will describe the said invention first in connection with a stair rod of a
triangular figure in cross section.
We form one of the stair rod eyes or fastenings, preferably that to be used
at the left hand end of the stair rod, of a box like form the opening in which is
of a size and shape suitable to receive the left hand end of the rod, the opening
in the box like eye or fastener being presented to that side of the eye or fastener
which is to receive the end of the rod. The closed side of the eye or fastener
carries an ornament which replaces the terminal ornament with which the stair
rod is ordinarily provided. The stair rod is engaged with this, the left hand eye
or fastener by an endwise motion.
The other or right hand stair rod eye or fastener has an opening or slot in
its front or inclined face and in the box like opening of the said fastener is
fitted a nearly tubular socket capable of turning in a circular seat in the box like
opening of the eye or fastener so that the open or slotted side of the socket may
be brought opposite and made to coincide with the slot hereinbefore referred to
in the front or inclined face of the eye or fastener: or the said socket may be
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turned so as to close the slot in the said front face of the eye or fastener.
ornamental end on the closed side of the box like eve or fastener is connected
by a pin or pivot with the socket described so as to constitute a thumb piece
by which the said socket may be turned, a pin or stop on the closed side of
the eye or fastener limiting the motion of the ornamental end or thumb piece in
one or other direction.
In order to permit of the engagement of the triangular stair rod with the right
hand eye or fastener described, the right hand end of the rod is plugged with a short
piece of cylindrical rod the end of which projects from the end of the triangular
stair rod and engages with the eye described by being passed through the opened
slot and being retained therein by the turning of the socket by means of its
ornamental end or thumb piece, the slot in the socket being turned away from
the slot in the eye or fastener.
This part of the said invention is illustrated in Figures 1 to 8 both inclusive
of the accompanying drawings.
Figure represents in front elevation a triangular stair rod and its eyes or
fastenings Figure 2 is a section on the dotted lineæ, a Figure 1 and Figure 3
is a section on the dotted line y, y Figure 1.
Figure 4 represents in front and end elevation the right hand end of the stair
rod detached.
Figures 5 and 6 represent elevations taken at opposite sides of the right hand
stair rod eye or fastening in its closed or fastening position and Figures 7 and 8
represent respectively in front elevation (partly in section) and side elevation
the said right hand eye or fastening in its open position ready to receive the
cylindrical end or termination at the right hand end of the stair rod.
The same letters of referenc indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
a is the stair rod (of triangular figure in cross section) and is the cylindrical
termination at the right hand end of the same (best seen in Figure 4); b is the
left hand eye or fastening which has an internal figure corresponding to that f

page_text: the sectional figure of the rod a as will be seen by reference to Figure 2 and
has formed in one piece therewith the ornamental termination 2.
The right hand eye or fastening (shown separately in Figures 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8)
marked has a slot at front and is fitted internally with a slotted socket d
connected by a pin or pivot passing through the closed end of the eye or
fastening to the ornamental termination which constitutes a thumb piece by
which the slotted socket d can be partially rotated for opening and closing the
slot 2 of the eye or fastening.
The motion of the thumb piece d² and socket d connected thereto is limited
by a pin c on the closed side of the eye c (see Figure 6).
By turning the thumb piece d², when the slotted socket d is in its closed
position, through or nearly through a semi-rotation as indicated in dotted lines
in Figure 6, the slot of the said socket d is made to coincide with the slot of
the eye or fastening as represented in Figures 7 and 8 and thereby permit of the
removal of the end of the stair rod engaged therein or the introduction of the end
of the stair rod into the said socket.
It will be seen by an examination of the drawings that in order to permit of the
engagement of the triangular stair rod with the slotted socket d the said stair rod
is provided at its right hand end with a cylindrical pin or termination a2 of
the size proper to pass through the slot 2 of the eye or fastening
c and engage
in the socket d.
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The rod a is engaged with its eyes or fastenings b, c by first passing its angular
or left hand end by an endwise motion into the closed or box like left hand eye
or fastening by which motion of the rod a its cylindrical pin or termination a
is brought in front of the open slot 2 of the right hand eye or fastening through
which the cylindrical end a² is passed into the socket d (the socket d being in
the position Figures 7 and 8). By turning the socket d through or nearly through
a semi-rotation by means of its thumb piece d² the slot is closed and the rod a
secured in place as represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Although we have only represented this part of the said invention in connection
with a stair rod of triangular figure in cross section we wish it to be understood
that it is applicable to stair rods of other angular figures in cross section such
for example as square or oblong.
Where the rod is cylindrical or approximately cylindrical the interior of the
left hand eye or fastener is correspondingly shaped and the right hand end of
the rod requires no modification or addition to fil it to engage with the right hand
eye or fastener last described.
According to another arrangement of the said invention we form from sheet
brass or other ductile sheet metal or alloy by stamping and piercing processes,
a foundation or fixing plate having a semi-circular or nearly semi-circular
depression or trough at the angle or junction of the vortical and horizontal parts
of the fixing plate. The said fixing plate has a vertical disc at the side, which
we will hereinafter call the closed side. In the said depression or trough shaped
seat of the fixing plate of the left hand fastener we fit a short tube or ferrule
closed at one end and flanged at its other end, the closed end taking against the
disc of the closed side of the fixing plate described. To the other side of
the closing disc, we fit an ornamental end, the ornamental end, closing disc and
tube or ferrule being connected together preferably by a rivet.
The other or right hand eye or fastener resembles generally that last described
excepting that the tube or ferrule is open at one side and is capable of turning
in its trough shaped seat, the ornamental end on the outer side of the eye or
fastener being so connected to the open sided tube er ferrule as to constitute a
thumb piece for the same. The turning motion of the open sided tube is limited
by a stop.
When the thumb piece or ornamental end is turned in one direction
the slot in the tube is brought into such a position as to permit of the passing
of the end of the stair rod therein and when turned in the other direction, after
the introduction of the end of the stair rod constitutes with the trough shaped

page_text: seat of the fixing plate a complete eye in which the end of the stair rod is held,
the turned tube covering the end of the stair rod within the ye.
This part of the said invention is represented in Figures 9 to 23 both inclusive
of the accompanying drawings.
Figure 9 represents in front elevation the let hand stair rod eye or fastener.
Figures 10 and 11 represent in front and sidor end elevation respectively the
right hand stair rod eye or fasten r in its closed position, and Figures 12 represents
the same, in front elevation, in its open position.
Figures 13, 14 and 15 represent in front elevation, side chi vation and vertical
section respectively the fixing or foundation plate of the left hand stair rod eye
or fastener Figure 9; the section Figure 15 being taken on the dotted liner,
Figure 13.
Figures 16 and 17 r. present in front an end elevation respectively the ferrule
of the left hand stair rod eye or fastener Figure 9: and Figures 18 and 19 are
respectively a front and side elevation of the ornamental end of the same fixed
by rivetting to the closed side and ferrule of the said left hand eye or fastener.
Figures 20 and 21 represent in front and side elevation respectively the fixing
or foundation plate of the right hand stair rod eye or fastener Figures 10, 11
and 12 and Figures 22 and 23 represent front and end elevations respectively
of the slotted ferrule of the same.
According to this part of the said invention the fixing or foundation plates of
the stair rod eyes or fastenings are formed by stamping and piercing operations
from thin sheet metal. Each of the said fixing or foundation plates consists
essentially of vertical and horizontal arms or parts e, c and a semi-circular or
nearly semi-circular trough 2 by which the two parts e, e pass into one another.
At one side (the outer side) of the said trough 2 is a closing side or disc e'. The
fixing plate of the right hand ye or fastening Figures 10, 11 and 12 differs from
that of the fixing plate of the left hand eye or fastening only in the respect
that is is provided with a projecting piece e at its inner or open side which
projecting piece constitutes a stop for limiting the rotary motion of the slotted
ferrule hereinafter described.
In the trough of the fixing plate e of the left hand fastener Figure 9 is
arranged the short tube or ferrule f (shown separately in Figures 16 and 17) the
closed bottom of which ferrule abuts against the closed side e' of the fixing plate.
To the other or outer face of the closed side e¹ of the fixing plate e the ornamental
end (shown separately in Figares 18 and 19) is fixed, the rivet for fixing the
said ornamental end passing through the cloud side e¹ of the fixing plate and
also through the closed end or bottom of the ferrule ƒ and connecting the three
parts g, el and f together.
The ferrule f of the right hand eye or fastener Figures 10, 11 and 12 is slotted,
as is best seen in the end elevation Figure 11 and separate views of the slotted
ferrule Figures 22 and 23, and is so connected to the closed side of the fixing
plate and its ornamental end as to be capable of turning in the trough of
the fixing plate, the rivet or pin connecting the slotted ferrule f to the ornamental
end constituting a connecting pivot which permits the slotted ferrule f to
be turned by the turning of its ornamental end which constitutes the thumb
piece of the rotating ferrule. The turning of the slotted ferrule in one or other
direction is limited to a semi-rotation by the stop e' so that by turning it in one
direction it forms with the trough of the fixing plate a complete eye for the end
of the stair rod and by turning the said slotted ferrule in the other direction the
slotted side of the ferrule is presented outwards and thereby effects the opening of
the eye or fastener.
The fixing or foundation plate of the last d. serib d stair rod eve or fastener
may be modified as represented in Figures 21 to 30 both inclusive, that is to say
the semi-circular part connecting the vertical and ho: isonal ars or parts e, e
is made convex instead of concave as in the last described arangement.
Figures 24, 25 and 26 represent in front elevation, side or end elevation and

page_text: vertical section respectively the fixing plate for a left hand stair rod eye or
fastening and Figures 27, 28 and 29 are similar views of the fixing plate for a
right hand stair red eye or fastening.
Figure 0 is a vertical section of a right hand eye or fastener complete and
Figures 31 and 32 are a front and side or end elevation respectively of the slotted
ferrule of the said eye or fastener Figure 30.
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The fixing plate (Figures 24, 25 and 26) for the left hand eye or fastener has
in its inner side a circular eye or opening h into which the end of the stair rod
is introduced thereby rendering unnecessary the short tube or ferrule f shown in
the left hand ye or fastener Figure 9; but where thought necessary or desirable
the said short tube or ferrule f may be employed. The ornamental end g
(Figures 18 and 19) is fixed by riveting or otherwise to the closed side of the
fixing plate Figures 24, 25 and 26 as in the previously described eye or fastener
Figure 9.
The right hand fixing plate shown separately in Figures 27, 28 and 29 differs
from the left hand fixing plate Figures 24, 25 and 26 only in the respect that
its curved front is slotted and its closed side has an inwardly pressed teat or
projection to constitute a stop for the rotating sloited ferrule g represented
separately in Figures 31 and 32. The closed end of the slotted ferrule has
shoulders one of which bears against the stop when the slotted ferrule f is
turned through a semi-rotation from its closed position Figure 30 into its open
position and the reverse.
For stair rods of a plano-convex figure in cross section commonly called half
round rods, the fixing plate of the right hand eye or fastener has an inclined face
or seat on which the flat face of the half round rod rests when in place. At the
middle of the said inclined face or seat and on the outer side of the same is a pin
or pivot on which a dise carrying the ornamental end or thumb piece and also
a semi-circular covering plate for the end of the rod is fixed so as to be capable
of turning thereon. At the top or bottom of the inclined face or seat of the fixing
plate is a slot through which the semi-circular covering plate of the eye or fastener
pass on the turning of the ornamental end or thub piece to uncover and
unfasten the end of the half round stair rod, the semi-circular covering plate of
the eye passing under the inclined tace or stat of the fixing plate.
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This anenge ent of the said invention is represented in Figures 33 to 43 both
inclusive: Figures 83 to 39 both inclusive representing the stair rod eyes or
fastening when pande tro castings and Figures 40 to representing a right
hand eye or fastening when made by stamping and piercing operations from sheet
metal.
Figure 33 is a front elevation of a stair rod and its eyes or fastenings: Figure 34
is a vertical section on the dotted liner. Figure 34, and Figure 35 is a vertical
section on the dotted line y, y Figure 33.
Figure 36 represents the fixing plate of the right hand ove or fastening
separately and Figure 37 is a cross section of the complete eye or fastening the
said section being taken in a plane passing through the axis on which the curved
covering plate and ornamental end or thumb piece turn.
Figures 38 and 39 are sections of a right hand eye or fastening showing a
slight change or addition hereinafter described for effecting the locking of the
curved covering plate in its closed position.
The half round rod a and its left hand eye or fastening b differ only in shape
from the d and left hand eve or tastener hereinbetore di seribed with reference
to Figures 1 to 8 both inclusive.
The fixing plate of the right hand eye or fastening has a slot at the top
of its inclined tare or seat the said slot opening on the outer side of the fixing
plat. In the sail slot the curved covering plate is arranged its end dise
being pivoted to the outer side of the fixing plate and provided with the ornamental
end or thumb piece 12 by which the curved covering plate k is turned.
The right hand end of the stair rod is fastened and unfastened by turning the

page_text: thumb piece in one or other direction so as to cover the end of the rod as
represented in Figures 35 and 39 or uncover the end of the rod as represented in
Figure 38.
When the fastening is made from sheet metal the ornamental end and curved
covering plate are preferably made in two parts connected together by riveting
(see Figures 40, 41, 42 and 43). The curved covering plate is provided with a
short tubular collar or sleeve ki for bearing on the pin or pivot of the fastening
and obtaining a steady turning motion thereon.
Where for greater security it is thought necessary or desirable to lock the
rotating covering plates of the eyes or fastenings the said rotating covering
plate is provided with an inwardly projecting rib, pin or projection and the rod
has a corresponding groove, slot or hole made in its end. When the rib, pin or
projection of the rotating covering plate is, in the closing of the eye or fastener,
brought opposite the slot, groove or hole in the end of the stair rod, the said
rod is by the pull of the carpet made to rise slightly and cause the interlocking
of the rib, pin or projection and slot, groove or hole and thereby prevent the
accidental turning of the covering plate.
This arrangement of the said invention is represented in Figures 38 and 39
applied to a stair rod eye or fastener for a half round rod.
is the rib or pin on the curved covering plate k with which the groove or
hole a in the end of the rod a engages as represented in Figure 39.
When it is desired to open the eye for releasing the end of the stair rod
it is necessary to press the stair rod with one hand so as to disengage the rib from
the groove (or the pin from the hole) and at the same time turn the thumb piece
of the curved covering plate by the other hand.
The interlocking arrangement described and represented in Figures 38 and 39
may be reversed with the same or nearly the same effect; that is to say, a fixed or
spring pin or projection may be provided on the end of the rod and a hole made
in the rotating part of the eye or fastener for the fixed or spring pin or projection
to engage in on the turning of the rotating part of the eye or fastener into its
closing position.
The methods of interlocking the stair rods and rotating parts of their eyes or
fasteners are applicable to all of the arrangements herein before described and
illustrated.
For stair rods having an elliptical figure in cross section we modify the arrange-
ment represented in Figures 33 to 43 both inclusive by making the face or seat
of the fixing plate semi-elliptical or we make the end of the rod semi-elliptical
by flattening the underside of the end or ends of the rod and employ the eyes
or fasteners Figures 33 to 43: or we make one or both ends of the stair rod
cylindrical as hereinbefore described and represented in Figures 1, 3 and 4.
We wish it to be understood that the stair rod eves or fisteners which we have
hereinbefore described as used at the right and ends of the stair rols may be used
at the left hand ends of the said rods instead of at the right hand ends or they
may be used both at the right and left hand ends of the stair reds.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention of "Improvements in stair rod eyes or fastenings
and in stair rods":
First The combination with cylindrical or approximately cylindrical stair
rods, or with stair rods of an angular figure in cross section but having a cylin-
drical end or ends, of eyes or fastenings each of which consists essentially of a
box like eye or fastening proper fixed to the stairs the said box like eve or
fastening proper being open on its inner side or end and closed on its outer side
or end and slotted at front the said box like eye or fastening proper having
arranged therein a slotted socket or short tube closed at one end the closed end
of the said slotted socket being connected by a pin or pivot passing through the

page_text: closed end of the box like eye or fastening to an ornamental end or thumb piece
by which the said socket is turned, the said ornamental end or thumb piece being
provided with a stop whereby the turning motion of the slotted socket in one r
other direction is limited, the several parts being constructed, combined and used
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Secondly; Providing angular stair rods with a cylindrical end or ends or
securing in the said end or in each end a short cylindrical pin or stud so as to fit
the said angular stair rods to be used with stair rod eyes or fastenings having
circular sockets substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1,
and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly, The construction and arrangement or combination of parts herein
before described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 8 both inclusive of the accom-
panying drawings the said construction and arrangement of parts consisting
essentially of an angular stair rod one end only of which is provided with a
cylindrical pin, stud or termination and the use therewith at one end of a fixed
box like eye or fastening for receiving the angular end of the stair rod the said
box like eye or fastening having an ornamental end in one piece therewith or
fixed thereto, and at the other end of the said rod of a fixed slotted box like eye
or fastening with slotted socket for receiving the cylindrical end of the angular
rod the said slotted socket being partially rotated for opening or closing the slot
of the box like eye or fastening by an ornamental end or thumb piece connected
to the slotted socket substantially as described and illustrated.
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Fourthly A stair rod ye or fastening consisting essentially of a sheet metal
fixing or foundation plate the vertical and horizontal arms or parts of which
pass into one another by a semi-circular or nearly semi-circular trough having
à closed side or end to which closed side or end a short tube or ferrule and
ornamental end are fixed, preferably by riveting, the short tube or ferrule occupy-
ing the trough of the fixing or foundation plate substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 9 to 19 Eoth inclusive of the accompanying
drawings.
Fifthly stair rod eye or fastening consisting essentially of sheet metal
fixing or foundation plate the vertical and horizontal arms or parts of which pass
into one another by a semi-circular or narly semi-circular trough having a
closed side or end to which closed side or end a short slotted tube or ferrule and
onmental end are connected so as to be capable of turning, the said slotted tube
or ferrule occupying the trough of the fixing or foundation plate and in one
position, that is, its closed position forming with the said trough a complete eye
und in its open position presenting its slot outwards and thereby opening the eve
or fastening substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 10,
11. 12. 18, 19, 20, 21. 22 and 23 of the accompanying drawings.
S'xthly The modified stair rod ye or fastening hereinbefore described with
reference to Figures 24, 25 and 26 of the accompanying drawings the said
modified stair rod eve or fastening consisting essentially of a sheet metal fixing
or foundation plate the vertical and horizontal arms or parts of which are connected
by a semi-circular or nearly semi-circular convex part, one of the sides of the
said fixing plate having an eye or opening for the reception of the end of the stair
rod the other or closed side of the fixing plate having the ornamental end affixed
thereto substantially as described.
Seventhly The modified stair rod eye or fastening hereinbefore described with
reference to Figures 27 to 32 both inclusive of the accompanying drawings the
said modified stair rod eye or fastening consisting essentially of a sheet metal
fixing or foundation plate the vertical and horizontal arms or parts of which are
connected by a semi-circular or nearly semi-circular convex part the inner side
of which fixing plate has an eve opening at front into a slot in the convex part
of the fixing plate the said fixing plate being provided with a slotted ferrule by
the turning of which the slotted front of the fixing plate is opened and closed the

page_text: outer side of the fixing plate carrying an ornamental end or thumb piece by
which the slotted ferrule is turned substantially as described and illustrated.
Eighthly A stair rod eye or fastening consisting essentially of the following
combination of parts, namely, a fixing or foundation plate having a seat for the
stair rod and a curved rotating covering plate for the end of the stair rod
the said rotating covering plate passing through and working in a slot in the side
of the fixing plate being pivoted at one side of the said fixing plate the said
rotating covering plate being turned by an ornamental end or thumb piece sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 33 to 43 both
inclusive of the accompanying drawings.
Ninthly; In stair rod eyes or fastenings having a rotating fixing part for
engaging with the end of the rod; providing the said rotating fixing parts of the
eyes with ribs, pins or projections and making in the end or ends of the stair
rods to be used therewith corresponding grooves, slots or holes, or the reverse
for engaging the stair rod with the rotating part of the eye and thereby preventing
the accidental turning of the said rotating fixing part substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 38 and 39 of the accompanying drawings.
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