Improvements in Brackets or Holders for Curtain and other Rods.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets or Holders for Curtain and other Rods.
We, ARENT DE PEYSTER CHANCE of Tyndall Works, Tyndall Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and JOSEPH WESTWOOD
CARR, of Highfield Villas, Alcester Road, King's Heath, in the County of
Worcester, Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
The brackets or holders to which the said invention refers are fixed on the
opposite sides of the window frame or other support to which the rod is applied,
the ends of the curtain or other rod being secured in the said end brackets or
holders by loose ferrules or short tubular pieces on the ends of the rod being
screwed upon externally screwed plugs on the said brackets or holders.
The screwed plug is situated on the inner side of the fixing plate of the bracket
or holder and is ordinarily connected to the said fixing plate by riveting its reduced
end in a hole in the said plate. By the treatment to which the screwed plugs are
subjected in use they are often detached from the fixing plates by the giving way
of the rivetted ends.
The object of the said invention is to remedy the defect referred to and consists
in making the screwed plug solid to or in one piece with the fixing plate by the
casting process. By making the plug in one piece with the fixing plate of the
bracket or holder by the casting process the separation of the plug part from
the fixing plate is practically impossible and the inconvenience attending the use of
brackets or holders of the ordinary construction is avoided.
The cast plug parts of the brackets are preferably made hollow and are externally.
screwed by screw plates and the ferrules used therewith are internally screwed by
screw taps, whereby the two parts when screwed together have a little play and
adjust themselves to the rod fixed by them.
The improved brackets or holders constituting this invention are applicable to
bottom or top and bottom curtain rods as well as to combined top curtain rods and
laths. They may also be applied to rods used in ships, shop window rods and show
case rods and generally to all rods which are required to be made detachable from
their end brackets or holders.
Dated this Twenty-second day of January 1895.
6 Improvements in Brackets or Holders for Curtain and other Rods.
We, ARENT DE PEYSTER CHANCE of Tyndall Works, Tyndall Street,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer and JOSEPH WESTWOOD
CARR, of Highfield Villas Alcester Road, King's Heath, in the County of
Price 8d.1

page_text: Worcester Manager of Works 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 brackets or holders to which the said invention refers are fixed on the
opposite sides of the window frame or other support to which the rod is applied,
the ends of the curtain or other rod being secured in the said end brackets or
holders by loose ferrules or short tubular pieces on the ends of the rod being
screwed upon externally screwed plugs on the said brackets or holders.
The screwed plug is situated on the inner side of the fixing plate of the bracket
or holder and is ordinarily connected to the said fixing plate by rivetting its
reduced end in a hole in the said plate. By the treatment to which the screwed
plugs are subjected in use they are often detached from the fixing plates by the
giving way of the rivetted ends.
The object of the said invention is to remedy the defect referred to and consists
in making the screwed plug solid to or in one piece with the fixing plate by the
casting process. By making the plug in one piece with the fixing plate of the
bracket or holder, by the casting process, the separation of the plug part from
the fixing plate is practically impossible and the inconvenience attending the use of
brackets or holders of the ordinary construction is avoided.
The cast plug parts of the brackets are preferably made hollow and are externally
screwed by screw plates and the ferrules used therewith are internally screwed by
screw taps, whereby the two parts when screwed together have a little play and
adjust themselves to the rod fixed by them.
The improved brackets or holders constituting this invention are applicable to
bottom or top and bottom curtain rods and other rods as well as to combined top
curtain rods and laths.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation and side
elevation, one of the end brackets or holders of a curtain or other rod made
according to this invention; Figure 2 represents a section of the same taken
through the screwed plug and the loose screwed ferrule placed upon the rod, and
Figure 3 represents a perspective view of the bracket or holder together with the
loose ferrule and a portion of the curtain or other rod.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
« is the vertical portion of the fixing plate of the end bracket or holder of the
curtain or other rod, which part a is screwed to the window frame or other support
to which the rod is to be applied; is the horizontal projecting portion of the
bracket or holder carrying on its inner face the screwed plug c on which the loose
internally screwed ferrule d on the end of the rod e is screwed for securing the rod
to the bracket in the ordinary way. The parts a, b and a plain or unscrewed
cylindrical plug on the part 6 are made in one piece by the casting process; that
is, the plug part is made solid to or in one piece with the parts a, b by the casting
process. The cast cylindrical plug part of the bracket is preferably made hollow
by coring in the ordinary way and after the bracket has been cast the countersink
holes in the plate. a are formed and the plain cylindrical plug part is screwed
externally by means of screw plates so as to convert the cylindrical plug into the
screwed plug c. The ferrule à used with the solid cast screwed plug c is screwed
internally by screw taps. By screwing the cast plug and the ferrule in the way
described, the two parts when screwed together have a little play and adjust
themselves to the rod fixed by them.
Figure 4 represents in front elevation and side elevation one of the end brackets
or holders of a combined top curtain rod and lath made according to this invention ;
Figure 5 represents a front elevation of the same with the loose ferrule of the rod
applied to the screwed plug of the bracket and Figure 6 represents in perspective
the same parts represented in Figure 5 with the addition of a portion of the lath
held by the bracket. The screwed plug made solid to or in one piece with the
parts a, b of the bracket by the casting process is marked c. The fixing plate a of

page_text: the bracket or holder has at bottom the seat ƒ for receiving the lath g and at top a
binding screw for fixing the lath in its place in the bracket. The said seat and
binding screw are common to ordinary brackets or holders for combined top curtain
rods and laths and constitute no part of this invention.
In addition to curtain rod brackets or holders of the kinds represented, this
invention may also be applied to brackets or holders for rods used in ships, shop
window rods, and show case rods and generally to all rods which are required to be
made detachable from their end brackets or holders.
By making the screwed plugs of the brackets or holders of curtain and other
rods solid to or in one piece with the brackets or holders by the casting process, as
hereinbefore described and illustrated, the defects common to brackets or holders
in which separate screwed plugs are rivetted to the said brackets or holders are
avoided as hereinbefore stated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim
as the said invention,
The improvements in brackets or holders for curtain and other rods hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, forming by
the casting process on the inner face of the bracket or holder a cylindrical plug
and afterwards screwing externally the said plug, preferably by screw plates, so as
to convert the said cylindrical plug into a screwed plug solid to or in one piece
with the bracket or holder for the purpose and substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated the First day of March 1895.
ARENT DE PEYSTER CHANCE.
JOSEPH WESTWOOD CARR.