Year: 1895

page_text: 1 JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS, of 13 Sampson Road, Sparkbrook Birmingham,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of stair rod eyes and
consists as follows:-
A strip of metal is cut out of suitable length and width, having at one end a
screw hole, for attachment purposes, and at the other end it is shaped spikelike for
being driven into the stairs. Or in some cases screw holes may be made at both
ends. At suitable points in its length slot holes are pierced for the purposes
hereinafter named.
An eye piece is now cut out, of a square, triangular, or other suitable shape,
according to the sectional shape of the rod used. Upon the edges of the said eye
piece, projections are made which coincide with the siot holes in the before named
strip. This strip is now bent around or upon the edge of the eye piece in such a
manner, that the projections pass into the slots and are there rivetted and then
smoothed off, the ends of the said strip being arranged at the suitable angles for
attachment.
Dated this 0th dow of March 1805
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
I, JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS of 13 Sampson Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in, and in the manufacture of, stair rod
eyes, and has for its object, the making of the said articles from sheet metal with
a reduction in the cost of manufacture.
My invention consists in making the said eyes from sheet metal and from two
fitted and rivetted-together component parts, the one part consisting of a strip of
metal forming the boundary frame embodying the attachment spike, angle bracket
and attachment plate, and the other part consisting of a frame with a hole through
its middle, and with the near and top side having ears or lugs, which pass through
corresponding holes in the other part and are there rivetted. This said frame may
be of any shape desired, according to the configuration of the eye.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in side elevation one form of
stair rod eye constructed according to my improvements.
Figure 2 represents a topside plan of the same and Figure 3 is a vertical section
of Figure 2 upon the dotted line x.

page_text: Figure 4 is a front end view of the eye, and Figure 5 represent views of the
component parts of the eye separately, the bracket frame being shown in section
and the eyed part in elevation.
Figure 6 represents the blank from which the bracket frame is made, prior to the
same being bent into the shape required.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 6.
a is a bracket or carrier frame, bent into a right angled shape from the cut-out
or fashioned blank a', Figure 6, and embodying an attachment spike a², at the
back, a middle angle bracket part a³, and an attachment foot or plate a', with a
pin or screw hole a', formed therethrough for fastening the same to the stairs.
b is an eyed plate or frame carried in the angle of the bracket a³ aud secured
thereto by lugs or ears 6, 62, formed respectively on its top and front side edges
passing or being sprung through corresponding holes a, a made through the metal
of the said bracket and being there rivetted or clenched, the ends of the said ears
spreading over the edges of the holes.
Figure 7 represents a modified form of eye, in which the spike at the front is
substituted by an attachment plate with screw or pin hole therein.
a is the angle bracket, 6 an eyed plate carried thereby and a³, a* the pierced
attachment plates for securing the bracket to the stairs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In stair rod eyes, making the same from two component parts, viz., an
eyed part and a bracket part, cut from sheet metal, and secured together by ears
or lugs of the one part taking into corresponding holes in the other part and being
there rivetted, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. In stair rod eyes, making the same from two sheet metal component
parts, viz., a frame part a, and an eyed part b, substantially as described and set
forth.
Thirdly. The improvements in stair rod eyes, substantially as herein described
and set forth.
and set Iorth.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1895.
JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.