Improvements in Joints or Junctions for Cornice and other Analogous Poles and Rods.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr.,
1007
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan., 1898--Accepted, 19th
Mar., 1898
Date of Application, av pr
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan., 1898--Accepted, 19th Mar.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Joints or Junctions for Cornice and other Analogous
Poles and Rods.
I, WILLIAM ALFRED BIBB, of Dora Road, Small Heath, in the City of Birming-
ham, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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This invention relates to joints or junctions for connecting together the sections
or component lengths of cornice and other analogous poles and rods, whereby the
same admit of falling to or following the angles of a window recess or the like,
and my invention has for its object, an inexpensive and cheaply made joint having
all the efficiency of more expensive joints.
In constructing a joint according to my invention, each rod end fitting consists
of a screw pin, bolt or equivalent with the inner end' wormed into a wood screw.
and the shank wormed with a metal screw, whilst the outer termination of the said
screw is formed into an eye, disc, plate or equivalent having a hole through its
middle. Taking upon the metal-wormed shank is a screwed on metal disc adapted
to fit within the inside of an end cap, which may be of any desired shape with the
throat or neck of the opening in the middle, dished or turned back to form a seating
wherein the junction of the shank of the screw with the eyed end takes a bearing
when the parts are drawn up tight by the rotation of the mount or end
cap.
end screwed part of the pin passes into a wood or metal pummel in an end of one
of the component lengths of a rod. The ends of each component length are pro-
vided with such a fitting and on the eyes of two adjacent fittings being brought
together and a screw, pin, rivet or the like being passed through the coincident
holes of them, a joint is formed, which, in a cornice pole becomes vertical, the
plane of the eyes being placed horizontally so as to admit of the component lengths
being angularly adjusted horizontally.
The
• Instead of making the pins constitute outward terminations of screwed pins
they may, if necessary,
be cut out from sheet metal and connected to the summit
of the cap, or the said eyes may be made integral with the caps by spreading or
flattening down the same into disc or blade-like ends, which are pierced about their
middles wherethrough the rivet or other pin passes.
As a still further form, the coincident eyes may be made alike unto a rule joint,
and either separately or integral with the cap. In the latter case, an affixing
screw may be secured to the inside by closing or otherwise, or they may be secured
by small screws passing through flanges of the cap, or by the said flanges being
inside wormed to take upon the wormed ends of the pole.
Dated this 24th day of April 1897
WILLIAM ALFRED BIBB,
By Henry Skerrett, Agent for Applicant.

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Improvements in Joints or Junctions for Cornice and other Analogous
Poles and Rods.
I, WILLIAM ALFRED BIBB, of Dora Road, Small Heath, in the City of Birming
ham, Manager of Works, 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:-
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This invention relates to joints or junctions for connecting together the sections
or component lengths of cornice and other analogous poles and rods, whereby the
same admit of falling to or following the angles of a window recess or the like,
and my said invention has for its object, an inexpensive and cheaply made joint,
having all the efficiency of more expensive joints.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a cornice pole made up of
five component lengths or sections secured together by joints or junctions con-
structed according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents a topside plan. of one of the said joints, separately and in the
position which the parts would assume when two components cornice-pole. lengths
connected by it were in a line.
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Figure 3 is a like view as Figure 2, but with the sections set at an angle relative
to one another.
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Figure 4 is a side elevation partly in section, of the said junction and Figure 5
represents the component parts of the two halves separated and partly in section
and partly in elevation.
Figure 6 represents a plan of the said two halves separated and the joint pin
and washer removed.
Figure 7 represents elevations of the eyed screw and mount parts of the joint
and a section of the dished washer or disc which is wormed onto the screwed shank
of the eyed pin and secures the mount or end cap in position thereon, the extreme
wormed end being then screwed into a plug in the end of the rod section, whose
extremity lies within the inside of the said mount.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
In constructing a joint according to my invention, each rod end fitting consists
of a screw pin or bolt a, with the inner end a¹, wormed with a wood screw a³, and
the shank part a², wormed with a metal screw thread at, whilst the outer termina-
tion of the said screw is formed into a disc, plate or equivalent a5, having an eye
or hole a, through its middle. Taking upon the metal-wormed shank a², is a
screwed-on metal washer or disc b, adapted to fit within the inside of an end cap c,
which may be of any desired shape with the throat or neck of the opening 2, in
the middle, dished or turned back to form a seating, wherein the junction of
the shank of the screw with the eyed end takes a bearing when the parts are drawn
up tight by the rotation of the washer disc of the mount, or end cap. The end
screwed part a³, of the eyed screw passes into a wood or metal pummel in an end
of one of the component lengths of a rod, both ends of which are provided with
such a fitting and on the eyes of two adjacent fittings being brought together (as
best seen in Figure 4) and a screw, pin or rivet d, or the like being passed through
the coincident holes of them, and also, if necessary through threaded on washers
such as d', a joint is formed, which in a cornice pole comes vertical, the plane
of the eyes being placed horizontally so as to admit of the component lengths being
angularly adjusted horizontally.
Instead of making the eyed parts constitute outward terminations of screwed
pins they may, if necessary, be cut out from sheet metal and be connected to the

page_text: summit of the cap, as represented, partly in elevation and partly in section in
Figure 8, or the said eyes may be made integral with the caps by spreading or
flattening down the same into discs or blade-like ends, which are pierced about
their middles wherethrough the rivet or other joint pin passes. Figure 9 repre-
sents a plan, partly in section of such cap and Figure 10 a side elevation thereof,
c being the end cap, and a the integrally formed eye. In these latter arrange-
ments, the pole may be secured to the inside of the cap by closing or spinning the
metal of the latter over or around the end of the former, or by small screws passing
through flanges of the cap, and taking into the material of the pole, or the said
flanges may be inside wormed to take upon the wormed ends of the pole, as repre-
sented at c, Figure 9.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. A joint or junction for cornice and analogous poles and rods, consisting
of two end caps, with eyes or equivalents at their outer ends, which are placed
coincidently over one another and are jointedly connected by a cross pin, rivet,
eyelet or equivalent, substantially as described and set forth."
Secondly. A joint or junction for cornice and analogous poles and rods, con-
sisting of two eyed screws or boits, with their stems passing through the middles
of caps or mounts, whilst their eyed parts are placed together and secured by a pin,
rivet or equivalent passed through the coincident holes therein, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 7 of the drawings.
Thirdly. In joints or junctions for cornice and analogous poles and rods, the
general construction, arrangement and combination of the parts, substantially
as herein described and set forth in Figures 1 to 7.
Fourthly. In joints or junctions for cornice and analogous poles and rods of
the kind referred to in the first Claim, making the eye or pierced plate integral with
the cap or mount substantially as described and set forth in Figures 9 and 10.
Fifthly. In joints or junctions for cornice and analogous poles and rods of the
kind referred to in the first Claim, making the eyed or pierced plate from sheet
metal and attaching the same to the summit or end of the cap or mount by rivetting,
closing or otherwise, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 25th day of January 1898.
WILLIAM ALFRED BIBB,
By Henry Skerrett, 24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.