Attachment Means or Holders for Securing Loose Draperies or Fabrics to Bedsteads, Mattresses, and other Articles, and also Securing Advertising Bills or Posters to Boards or Frames.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Attachment Means or Holders for Securing Loose Draperies or
Fabrics to Bedsteads, Mattresses, and other Articles, and also
Securing Advertising Bills or Posters to Boards or Frames.
I, WILLIAM MORGAN, of Cannon Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to attachment means for securing or holding loose
draperies, fabrics or the like to parts of bedsteads, frames, mattresses and other
articles, such for example as means for the holding of valances or draperies to the
side angle frames and other parts of bedsteads and mattresses also to cornices and
other structures requiring to be draped, also to the securing of bills or posters to
boards or frames for advertising and other purposes.
Heretofore the said loose valances or draperies have been secured to bedsteads
and other articles by tying, stitching and the like, which is troublesome and takes
considerable time to accomplish, and when done, the same has an unsightly
appearance, whilst in advertising and like bills and posters the same have been
either pasted or tacked.
Now my invention consists in employing as the holding or securing means,
metallic clips, spring clips, pin-pointed clips or holders, or lever or like clips.
In carrying out one form of my invention in connection with means for securing
of a loose valance to the angle or like framing of a bedstead, I employ a wire clip,
consisting of two branched members, of the general figure of a staple, and with
the return or closed end bent hookwise and the other and free ends of the leg
members also bent hookwise, but with each of the extreme terminal ends of them
rolled into a clip.
The hook shaped parts of the said free ends bend inwards, so that the attach-
ment shall have the necessary springiness or resiliency for the proper clipping of
the drapery to be held between itself and the bedstead frame.
I propose to employ in connection with the attachment edge of the valance, a
lath, preferably slipped within a piped border, and with the said lath having upon
its outer side, a longitudinal groove or channel adjacent to a top beading.
By employing a rod or lath of wood, metal or the like, the drapery to be
suspended and secured is uniformly and neatly held, without hanging between the
points of connection, and further, two three or four clips are sufficient to hold the
entire length of a valance to the side of a bedstead.
In securing a valance to a bedstead frame, pass the lath through the piping (or
the fabric wrapped round the lath) then place the same in position, and spring the
clip transversely over the bedstead angle framing and lath, when the drapery is
firmly or attachedly secured.
Instead of making the said attachment clip from wire, I may make the same
from cut-out sheet metal, by first cutting out a skeleton blank, then fashioning the
same into the desired shape.
The said attachment clip may be made in the form of a band, preferably pierced
about its middle, and with its ends made or fashioned into hooks or spring hooks.
Instead of employing an attachment with double members, I may employ an
attachment consisting of a single member, having end spring hook connections.
As a still further form, to give resiliency to the general length of the members,
I may provide the same with spring coils about their middles, and with the same
lying in the same general plane as the said members.
As a still further form, I may bow, deflect or camber the said members so that

page_text: the same may straighten out or curve itself in manner in order to take, within
certain limits, various breadths of bedstead framings or articles.
As still a further form of my invention, I may make the clipping elements in
the form of two frames with limb members, which slide upou each other, and are
embraced by coiled springs, which impress against turned-up ends of the said
members, and thereby impart a constant inward tension to them.
As a still further form, I may make the attachment in the form of a clip, hooked
or curved at one end, and provided at the other end with a turned down and
excentrically mounted arm, which when turned into its holding position, locks the
said attachment, and the fabric to be held, to the bedstead frame.
In carrying out another form of my invention in connection with fabric-covered.
mattresses, I construct the holder in form alike into a pin pointed staple, with a
hooked and downwardly cranked return end, and with a bar of considerable
breadth forming the said return end, and connecting the one leg of the holder to
the other leg, that is to say, the holder has two long legs, pin pointed at their
ends, and separated from each other, and with the return end formed into a bar,
and with the junction of the same with the legs cranked first backwards hook wise
and then forwards hookwise.
The distance between the legs is equal to the length of the bar, so that the fabric
held is pierced by the parallel legs at points only where the cranked parts adjacent
to the ends of the bar come, and further, the material disposed between the ends
of the bar remains even or unpuckered.
In applying my invention, the drapery to be suspended, is first pierced and
passed up to the bar, and the pointed legs are then stuck into the fabric or sides
of the mattress.
In carrying out my invention in connection with draperies, suspended from poles
or rods, I form the returned end considerably larger in the hook part, and likewise
also in the bar part, but with the legs which spring open made to converge
outward from the return part to their free ends, which are slightly curved inwards.
Now the legs of this said holder diverge outwardly towards the points, and with
the legs of the return part coming nearly together, whilst the bar is of about the
breadth of the distance between the said free ends.
When being applied, the spring legs are first passed through the fabric up to
the bar and then closed by applied pressure through a thumb and finger, and then
passed through the eye of a curtain ring, and then released, when the same is
unable to be detached, as is now the case with ordinary curtain holders, until the
spring legs have been again compressed, or until they have been closed and drawn
through the eye of the ring as aforesaid.
By my invention the fabric suspended is kept in symmetrically arranged pleats,
and without the same overlapping each other and there is no trouble attending the
hanging or affixing of the same.
As a still further form, I may make the legs of the holder curved alike unto
helices or part spirals, with the return part forming a bar by which the attachment
or holder is rotated, and up to which the fabrics to be threaded comes.
In use, insert the pointed ends into the fabric, then rotate the connector, when
the helices wind themselves into the material up to the bar.
As a still further form, the upper part approaching the return end may be
cranked, and the legs adjacent to it made undulating.
The application of my invention to the attachment of draperies to other articles,
and also to the securing of advertising and like bills and posters to boards and
frames differs in no essential respect from its application to the securing of a loose
valance to a bedstead or mattress frame or of a curtain to a pole as described.
Dated this 17th day of October 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Attachment Means or Holders for Securing Loose Draperies or
Fabrics to Bedsteads, Mattresses, and other Articles, and also
Securing Advertising Bills or Posters to Boards or Frames.
I, WILLIAM MORGAN, of Cannon Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manuer the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :—
This invention relates to attachment means for securing or holding loose draperies,
fabrics or the like to parts of bedsteads, frames, mattresses and other articles,
such for example as means for the holding of valances or draperies to the side
angle frames and other parts of bedsteads and mattresses also to cornices and
other structures requiring to be draped, also to the securing. of bills or posters
to boards or frames for advertising and other purposes.
Heretofore the said loose valances or draperies have been secured to bedsteads
and other articles by tying, stitching and the like, which is troublesome and takes
considerable time and when done, the same has an unsightly appearance, whilst in
advertising and like bills and posters the same have been either pasted or tacked.
Now my invention consists in employing as the holding or securing means,
metallic clips, spring clips, pin-pointed clips or holders, or lever or like clips.
In carrying out one form of my invention in connection with means for securing
a loose valance to the angle or like framing of a bedstead, I employ a wire clip,
consisting of two branched members, of the general figure of a staple, and with the
return or closed end bent hook wise and the other and free ends of the leg members
also bent hookwise, but with each of the extreme terminal ends of them rolled into
a loop.
The hook shaped parts of the said free ends curve inwards or outwards, so
that the attachment shall have the necessary springiness or resiliency for the
proper clipping of the drapery to be held between itself and the bedstead frame.
I propose to employ in connection with the attachment edge of the valance, a
cord or a lath or metal spring, preferably slipped within a piped border.
By employing a cord, or a rod or lath of wood, metal or the like, or a metal
spring, the drapery to be suspended and secured is uniformly and neatly held,
without hanging loose or sagging between the points of connection, and further,
two, three or four clips are sufficient to hold the entire length of a valance to
the side of a bedstead.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a loose valance secured to a
bedstead framing by a clip or attachment means made according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a transverse section of Figure 1 upon
the dotted lines x-x.
Figure 3 represents an edge view of the valance clip upon the same scale as
Figure 2.
Figure 4 represents a topside plan of the same.
a is a clip, consisting of two branched leg members a', a', with their free ends
terminated by returned hooks a², and their other ends by a hook-shaped loop a³,
the end bars of which loop are concaved a', so as to lie snugly upon a raised
or piped edging 1, of a loose valance b, formed by the passing through the
said edging of a rope, rod or equivalent c.
Thus, in securing a valance to a bedstead frame, pass the cord through the
piping then place the said valance in position, and spring the clip transversely
over the bedstead angle framing d, and piped edging, when the drapery is firmly
or attachedly secured, as represented in Figures 1 and 2.
It is understood that a number of these clips are employed along the side of

page_text: the bedstead, placed at suitable distances apart, according to the weight of the
drapery to be held.
Figure 5 represents a transverse section of a bedstead side, with the valance
having its top edge fitted with a lath with a beaded edge, secured in position by my
new or improved clip.
a is the clip, the valance, e is the lath and d the angle framing.
Instead of making the said attachment clip from wire, I may make the same from
cut-out sheet metal, by first cutting out a skeleton blank, and then fashioning
the same into the desired shape.
Instead of employing an attachment with double members, I may employ an
attachment consisting of a single member, having end spring hook connections.
As a still further form, to give resiliency to the general length of the members,
I may provide the same with spring coils about their middles, and with the
same lying in the same general plane as the said members.
Figure 6 represents such a clip as last described.
a is the clip, a¹ the side members, a² the inner hooked ends, a³ the hooked loop
and a the loop coils.
As another form of my invention, I may make the clipping elements in the form
of two frames with limb members, which slide upon each other, and are embraced
by coiled springs, which impress against turned-up ends of the said members, and
thereby impart a constant inward tension to them.
Figure 7 represents a side clevation of such a clip.
a is the clip, a¹ the sliding limb members, a the turned up ends of them, a³ the
valance clip hooked end, a² the bedstead clip end, and as a coiled spring, embracing
the said limb members.
As a still further modification, I may make the attachment in the form of a clip,
hooked or curved at one end, and provided at the other end with a turned down
and excentrically mounted arm, which when turned into its holding position, locks
the said attachment, and the fabric to be held, to the bedstead frame.
Figure 8 represents this last described attachment means.
a is the hook, with the leg members a', forwardly hooked at a², and with the rear
looped end member a³, provided with a short levering arm a', jointed at a³, and
having a cam or short arm a°. bis the valance, c is the cord and d is the bedstead
side.
In carrying out another form of my invention in connection with fabric-covered
mattresses, I construct the holder in form alike unto a pin pointed staple, with a
hooked and downwardly cranked return end, and with a bar of considerable breadth
forming the said return end, and connecting the one leg of the holder to the other
leg, that is to say, the holder has two long legs, pin pointed at their ends, and
separated from each other, and with the return end formed into a bar, and with the
junction of the same with the legs, cranked, first backwards hookwise and then
forwards hookwise.
The distance between the legs is equal to the length of the bar, so that the fabric
held is pierced by the parallel legs at points only where the cranked parts, adjacent
to the ends of the bar, come, and further, the material disposed between the ends of
the bar remains even or unpuckered.
In applying my invention, the drapery to be suspended, is first pierced and
passed up to the bar, and the pointed legs are pressed together and then stuck into
the fabric or sides of the mattress, or into the spring wire sacking.
Figure 9 represents side and front elevations of a pin-pointed valance attachment
clip, constructed according to this last named form of my invention.
Figure 10 represents a back elevation of the same, shown in use, whilst Figure 11
is a front elevation thereof.
a is the pinning clip, having pointed leg members a', and a bar a³, with cranked
unction parts a*.
In carrying out my invention in connection with draperies suspended from poles
or rods, I form the returned end considerably larger in the hook part, and likewise

page_text: also in the bar part, but the legs which spring open, are made to converge outward
from the return part to their free ends, which are slightly curved inwards.
Now the legs of this said holder diverge outwardly towards the points, and with
the legs of the return part coming nearly together, whilst the bar is of about the
breadth of the distance between the said free ends.
When being applied, the spring legs are first passed through the fabric up to the
bar and then closed by applied pressure through a thumb and finger, and then,
passed through the eye of a curtain ring, and released, when the same is unable to
be detached, as is now the case with ordinary curtain holders, until the spring
legs have been again compressed, or until they have been closed and drawn through
the eye of the ring as aforesaid.
By my invention the fabric suspended is kept in symmetrically arranged pleats,
and without the same overlapping each other and there is no trouble attending the
hanging or affixing of the same.
Figure 12 represents such a hook as last described applied to a cornice pole ring,
and Figure 13 is a front elevation of the same.
As a still further form, I may make the legs of the holder curved alike unto
helices or part spirals, with the return part forming a bar by which the attachment
or holder is rotated, and up to which the fabric to be threaded comes.
In use, insert the pointed ends into the fabric, then rotate the connector, when
the helices wind themselves into the material up to the bar.
Figure 14 is a plan and Figure 15 an edge view of this last described
arrangement.
a', a are the double helices, pin-pointed at their ends and joined together by a
cross bar a³, forming the holder.
As a still further form, the upper part approaching the return end may be
cranked, and the legs adjacent to it made undulatory.
Figure 16 represents a modified form of valance connection.
In this arrangement, a length of spring cord or coiled spring is employed, in lieu
of a cord, for the fore hooked part of a clip to take around.
a is the clip, c is the spring cord, having looped ends c', taking over the hooks of
hook connections c², carried by the mattress framing or bedstead framing d, whilst
b is a valance.
The application of my invention to the attachment of draperies to other articles,
and also to the securing of advertising and like bills and posters to boards and
frames differs in no essential respect from its application to the securing of a loose
valance to a bedstead or mattress frame or of a curtain to a pole as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. Securing valances, draperies, and other fabrics to bedstead framings and
other articles by spring clips or spring attachments, consisting of resilient leg
members terminated at both ends by loops, or by hooks, or by looped hooks,
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 5.
Secondly. Securing valances, draperies and other fabrics to bedstead framing by
hooked and loop-ended spring members, with looped coils formed out of the metal
of the said spring members, substantially as described and set forth in Figure 6.
Thirdly. Securing valances and like draperies to bedstead framings and the like
by sliding and hooked ended members drawn home by an interposed coiled spring,
substantially as described and set forth in Figure 7.
Fourthly. In securing attachments for valances and the like, the combination
with a hook-ended clip, of a levering and gripping arm, substantially as described
and set forth in Figure 8.
Fifthly. The means for securing valances and other draperies to various
articles, and bills and posters to advertising boards and the like, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 8 and also in Figure 16.

page_text: Sixthly. Securing valances and like draperies and fabrics to covered mattresses,
cornice pole rings and the like, by a means consisting of pin-pointed leg members,
united by a cross bar, or cross end, and with the parts coming between the said
cross bar and the legs being cranked, curved or fashioned substantially as described
and set forth in Figures 9 to 13.
Seventhly. The means for securing valances and like draperies to various
articles, consisting of pin pointed helices united or joined by a cross bar or equivalent,
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 14 and 15.
Dated this 12th day of June 1894.
WILLIAM MORGAN,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.