Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1887.
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1888
ALFRED EDMONDS 38 Oakley Street Chelsea in the County of Middlesex Valet do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to sockets for window-curtain rods.
The fixing plate is a piece of sheet brass or any other sufficiently substantial metal,
say" three inches long by one and a half inch wide, to be impressed to the.
formation of a racket plate, or holes cut or drilled down the centre not quite
terminating top and bottom; a piece of the metal is to be cut out of each corner
to required size leaving between the extracted corners, sufficient metal to cut two
screw holes, one at the top and one at the bottom, for the purpose of fixing the
plate to the sash; on each side of the racket impression (or holes) down the centre,
a slot is to be cut out for the reception of the socket as hereinafter described; the
plate is to he bent up square on each side, just between the racket impression (or
holes) down the centre and the slot cut out for the reception of the socket (herein-
after described).
The socket is a piece of sheet brass or any other sufficiently substantial metal, cut
in a manner, so as to form a socket open at the front, and one end right or left
respectively, and closed at the other end right or left respectively; at the back of the
socket near the bend (forming the socket) a piece of the metal is cut and projected
in an outward direction which is to form a check or stop in the racket impression
(or holes) down the centre of the fixing plate, there is also three projecting pieces
of the metal at the bottom of the socket, one pointing in a right hand direction,
and one in a left hand direction, these two projections take up their positions in
the slots cut out of the fixing plate (as herein before described) and slide freely
therein; the third projection at the bottom, which is central between the right hand,
and the left hand projections is bent in an outward direction and finding its way
into the racket impression (or holes) down the centre of the fixing plate, serves to
keep the socket in a ready position for placeing the curtain rod, otherwise a piece
of flat spring-hardened metal may be rivetted on to the bottom of the socket,
answering the same purpose.
DL: 04th day of November 1887

page_text: Sockets for Window Curtain-rods.
ALFRED EDMONDS 38 Oakley Street, Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Valet,
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:
My Invention relates to Sockets for window curtain rods.
The fixing plate is a piece of sheet brass or any sufficiently substantial metal "say"
three inches long by one and a half inch wide, to be impressed to the formation of a
ratchet plate, or holes cut or drilled down the centre not quite terminating top
and bottom but leaving thereat sufficient metal to cut two screw holes for the purpose
of fixing the plate to the sash.
To take away from the fixing plate the danger of distortion I adopt the following
means to attach the socket, hereinafter described;
The edges on the right and left sides respectively of the plate are to be folded over
inward at from one to two eights of an inch leaving between the edges folded inward
and the ratchet impression, or if so adopted the holes, sufficient space when bent up
square as hereinafter described to receive the projections on the right and left sides
respectively of the socket, as hereinafter described. To prevent the socket being
withdrawn from the fixing plate, near to each end of the fixing plate I make a short
cut across the right and left sides thereof respectively and force inward that edge
made by the cut which is nearest the end of the plate so that on attempting to
withdraw the socket the right and left projections thereof respectively would come in
contact with the edges so forced inward as aforesaid and thus prevent its withdrawal.
And moreover the space at either end of the plate would then be insufficient to allow
the right and left projections to pass. The plate is to be bent up square on the right
and left sides respectively of the ratchet impression, or if so adopted the holes, at
about one eighth of an inch clear thereof.
When adopting the fixing plate with holes if the metal is not of sufficient substance
to retain therein the projection at the back of the socket (hereinafter described) it will
be necessary to force the metal which is left between the regulation holes slightly
inward so that it will stand out from the sash when the plate is fixed thereto, which
may be done without disturbing that portion in which the screw holes are cut.
The socket is a piece of sheet brass or any sufficiently substantial metal cut and
hent in a manner so as to form a socket open at the front and one end right or
left respectively and closed at the other end right or left respectively. At the back
of the socket near the bend forming the socket a piece of the metal is cut and

page_text: 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,
1st. The use of a fixing plate with a ratchet impression, or holes cut or drilled for
the purpose of regulating therein the height of a socket for a window curtain rod ; as 5
hereinbefore described or any mere modification thereof.
2nd. An open fronted socket for a window curtain rod, sliding in a fixing plate as
above described, which can be raised or lowered as desired, and a piece of metal
projected from the socket finding its way into the ratchet impression, or if so adopted,
the holes in the fixing plate thus forming the means of regulating the height of the
socket ;; as hereinbefore described or any mere modification thereof.
Dated this Twenty second day of December 1887.