Improved Device for Holding or Securing Carpets or the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1892-Accepted, 16th Ju y, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Holding or Securing Carpets or the like.
I, MARTHA SUTCLIFFE of Number 6 Belgrave Road Southport in the County
of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows that is
to say :-
It consists of an improved device for holding or securing carpets or like articles
whereby said carpets may be removed or held without in any way detaching or
removing said device from its fixed position on the floor while the edges of the said
carpets are in no way injured by their fixing as is the case when common carpet
pins that have to be driven through same into the floor are employed.
The device consists of a hook or button-headed pin mounted within a hollow
holder. This hollow holder being so formed that it will allow or admit the insertion
of a metal ring carried by as by being fastened with a loop of fabric (as a piece of
tape) to the carpet.
The holder for the hook or button-headed pin is arranged to be let into the floor
so that its upper surface may be flush therewith neither the button-headed pin, or
the hook, nor the ring engaging therewith extending so as to raise the carpet above
them in the least degree above its normal position on said floor.
The attachments to the carpets, for securing the rings thereto, are arranged to
hold said rings well within the border of said carpets in order that, same may be
thereby covered.
Instead of the holder having a cavity in which the hook is fixed, said holder may
be formed of sheet metal, its hooked part being constructed in such a manner as to
facilitate the application of the ring for holding the carpet. This kind of holder
may also be let into the floor so that its upper surface may be flush therewith as
above described.
Dated this 7th day of September 1891.
SAMUEL HEY,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Holding or Securing Carpets or the like.
I, MARTHA SUTCLIFFE of Number 6 Belgrave Road Southport in the County
of Lancaster, 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 that is to say :-
It consists of an improved device for holding or securing carpets or like articles
whereby said carpets may be removed or held without in any way detaching or
removing said device from its fixed position on the floor, while the edges of the said
carpets are in no way injured by their fixings as is the case when common carpet
pins that have to be driven through same into the floor, are employed.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 are top and side views shewing the improved device as fixed in the
floor boards of a room.
Fig. 3 is a sectional side view of parts shewn by Fig. 1.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are similar views to Figures 1, 2 and 3 respectively but shew a
modified form of the improved article.
Figs. 7, 7 and 8 are perspective views shewing the application of the holding
device more clearly,

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Figs. 9 and 10 are top and side views shewing a modification in the construction
of the improved article.
In all the figures the same letters of reference indicate the same parts.
The device consists of a hook a or button-headed pin b mounted within a hollow
holder c or d.
This holder c or d is formed so that it will allow or admit the insertion of, a metal
ring e carried by or fastened with a loop of fabric or a piece of tape f, to the
carpet g.
The holder c or d is arranged to be let into the floor h so that its upper surface
may be flush therewith neither the pin b, the hook a nor the ring e, engaging there-
with, extending so as to raise the carpet g above them in the least degree above its
normal position on said floor .
The attachments for securing the rings e to the carpet g, are arranged to hold
said rings e well within the border of said carpets g in order that same may be
thereby covered.
Instead of the holder c having a cavity in which the hook a is fixed, said holder o
may be formed of sheet metal as shewn by Figs. 9 and 10, its hooked part a' being
constructed as shewn so as to facilitate the application of the ring e for holding the
carpet g. This kind of holder c may also be let into the floor so that its upper
surface may be flush therewith as shewn by Fig. 10 and as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is.
1. The carpet holding device formed and constructed substantially as herein
⚫ specified.
2. Means for holding carpets said means consisting of a hook or button-headed
pin attached to or mounted within a hollow holder substantially as herein set forth
and described.
Dated this 6th day of June 1892.
M. SUTCLIFFE,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.