Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 4th May, 1888
I, CHARLES SHOWELL of the firm of Edwin Showell and Sons of Loveday Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows
A roller end bracket, consists of a brackot bearing, with a slotted or circular holo
about its middle, and wherein the axial ends of blind rollers work, and these end
brackets are usually made by casting, or from thick sheet brass; and when in use,
are usually placed and secured by screws, on two opposite window frames, and near
the inside top thereof.
The object of my said invention, is to obviate the wearing away of the, bearing
parts of the said brackets, by placing within the interior or sunken part, or at the
back of a bracket, a supplementary lining, back or body of a harder and more
durable metal, than that of the outside,..which is usually of brass.
Thus in making brackets according to my invention, I make them in two pieces,
afterwards joined together, and formed in the ways, hereinafter described; and I will
describe ny invention first in connection with the end bracket, of a pair of brackets,
which has a circular hole in its middle.
The outside part is raised from sheet brass, or is cast, and consists of a hemi-
spherical or bulbous shell middle part, pierced with a circular hole about its middle,
and with top and bottom, or side securing plates, through which screws or nails
pass, and whose inside bottoms are in the same plane as the back of the middle
part.
I raise from thick sheet steel or other hard metal or alloy, a back part, alike in form
that of the front, but whose front face assumes the negative outline of the back of
the front part.
The hemispherical middle part, is provided with an inwardly extending bearing or
bush, preferably of about half the depth of the hollow of the bulbous part; and it
is within this hollow bush, or pipe like bearing, that the axis of a roller works.

page_text: The boundary edge of the central piercing of the front part, is slightly bulged
inwardly, so also are the edges of the metal of the screw holes, while the ends and
sides of the boundary edges of the said front part are turned slightly over the
boundary edges of the back part, thereby securing the two parts together.
Or the two pieces may be connected together by eyelets, passed through the screw
holes respectively, and then clenched.
The other end bracket, is gapped or slotted, instead of being pierced with a circular
bearing hole. In this case, the back part is of the same inside negative outline, but
with a like gap left in the back as is in the front.
Instead of making the back of a like shape as the front, a segmental filling in
piece may be substituted therefor; and when placed and secured within the inside
bulbous shell part of the front, it forms an extended and hard metal bearing.
The back may be made of cast iron or steel, or the extended bearing may be formed
by introducing and securing within the bearing piercing of a front, a steel or
iron eyelet, which is secured therein, by spreading or bulging outwardly one of
its ends.
The wrought or cast iron steel or back may be coated with a deposit of brass, thus
dispensing with the external sheet metal covering.
A cast or wrought metal filling in piece with or without an extended bearing, may
be secured within the bulbous shell of the front part, by simply turning the boundary
edges of the latter, over the boundary edges of the former. Or the said filling in
piece-may be secured by soldering, brazing, or galvanizing.
The application of my invention to other analogous brackets, differs in no
essential respect from its application to roller end brackets as described.
Dated this 24th day of June 1887.

page_text: other similar Purposes.
I, CHARLES SHOWELL of the firm of Edwin Showell and Sons of Loveday Street
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, 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 :-
A roller end bracket, consists of a bracket bearing, with a slotted or circular hole
about its middle, and wherein the axial ends of blind rollers, work, and these end
brackets are usually made by casting, or from thick sheet brass; and when in use,
are usually placed and secured by screws, on two opposite window frames, and near
the inside top thereof.
The object of my said invention, is to obviate the wearing away of the hearing
parts of the said brackets, by placing within the interior or sunken part, or at the
Lack of a bracket, a supplementary lining, back or body, of a harder and more
durable metal, than that of the outside, which is usually of brass.
Thus, in making brackets according to my invention, I make them in two pieces,
afterwards joined together, and formed in the ways, hereinafter described; and I will
describe my invention first, in connection with the end bracket, of a pair of brackets,
which has a circular bearing hole in its middle.
The outside part is raised froin sheet brass, or is east, and consists of a hemispherical
or bulbous shell middle part, pierced with a circular hole about its middle, and with
top and bottom, or side securing plates, through which screws or nails pass, and
whose inside bottoms are in the same plane as the back of the middle part.
I raise from thick sheet steel, or other hard metal or alloy, a back part, alike in
form to that of the front, but whose front face assumes the negative outline of the back
of the front part.
The hemispherical middle part, is provided with an inwardly extending bearing or
bush, preferably of about half the depth of the hollow of the bulbous part; and it is
within this hollow bush, or pipe like bearing, that the axis of a roller, works.
The boundary edge of this central piercing of the front part is slightly bulged
inwardly, so also are the edges of the metal of the screw holes, while the ends and
sides of the boundary edges of the said front part are turned slightly over the
boundary edges of the back part, thereby securing the two parts together.
Or the two pieces may be connected together by eyelets, passed through the screw
holes respectively, and then clenched.
The other end bracket, is gapped or slotted, instead of being pierced with a circular
bearing hole. In this case, the back part is of the same inside negative outline,
but with a like gap left in the back, as in the front.
Instead of making the back of a like shape as the front, a segmental filling in

page_text: piece may be substituted therefor; and when placed and secured within the inside
bulbous shell part of the front, it forms an extended, and hard metal bearing.
The back may be made of cast iron or steel, or the extended bearing may be formed,
by introducing and securing within the bearing piercing of a front, a steel or iron
eyelet, which is secured therein, by spreading or bulging outwardly one of its ends.
A cast or wrought metal filling in piece, with or without an extended bearing, may
be secured within the bulbous shell of the front part, by simply turning the boundary
edges of the latter, over the boundary edges of the former. Or the said filling in
piece may be secured by soldering, brazing or galvanizing.
The application of my invention to other analogous brackets, differs in no essential
respect from its application to roller ond brackets as described.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings, the
manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation, a she roller end bracket, made according to
one form of my said invention, figure 2 is a back elevation of the same, and figure 3
is a longitudinal vertical section, taken through the dotted lines A B figure 1, and
figure 4 is a transverse vertical section, upon the dotted lines D figure 2.
a is an outside shell part, raised and fashioned preferably from sheet brass, with
inwardly bulged countersunk holes a. is a hard metal lining, cut out from sheet
steel, or sheet iron, or formed by casting, in the said metals, and which said lining
has an extended bearing 2, at the lower boundary edge of the slot a³, 13, of the parts a
and b, respectively.
The hard metal lining b, is secured in position at the back of the thin brass shell,
or front a, by turning the inner edges of the countersunk bulgings a², of the front a,
over the boundary edges of the screw holes, of the lining, thereby affixing (by
the spreading of the said metal) the back part to the front part.
Figure 5 is a front elevation, and figure 6 a vertical section of a he bracket, made
in the same manner as already described, with respect to a she bracket.
Figure 7 represents a longitudinal section of a roller end bracket, constructed
according to another form of my invention.
In this bracket, the hard metal lining is secured at the back of the shell, or front
part, by an independent eyelet a². The other parts are marked with the same letters
of reference as the preceding figures.
Figure 8 represents a modification, in which figure 9 is a transverse section upon
the dotted lines E F. In this particular form, the metal lining only comes at the
back of the middle bulbous part of the front shell of the bracket, and is secured in its
place, by the turning inwards of the boundary edges of the said shell, over, and at
the back of, the adjacent boundary edges of the lining.
a is the shell, the lining, 3, 63, the roller end bearing, a the turned over edge
of the shell, and the adjacent boundary edge of the lining.
Figure 10 represents a roller end bracket, with a half lining, which is secured in
position by the turning over of a portion of the boundary edges of the shell, upon
the adjacent boundary edge of the half-lining.
a is the front or shell of the bracket, b is a hard metal half lining, 62 is an extended
bearing, a the turned over edging of the front part, and is the adjacent edge of the
lining.
Figure 11 represents a vertical section of the said figure 10.
Figure 12 represents another form of bracket, in which the bracket hole, is lined
with a steel or other hard metal eyelet.
a is the bracket, b is a steel eyolet, closed within the bearing hole of the said
bracket.
Figure 13 represents a she bracket, like that of figure 12, which is a he bracket,
and figure 14 represents a back view of figure 13.
It will be seen that only about a lower half of a hard metal eyelet is employed, in
this form of bracket, and which is secured in position, by enclosing it within a hemi-
spherical shaped seat or hole, of a little larger diameter than the roller end bracket
bearing hole.
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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 :-
First Providing roller end brackets, or the shells or fronts thereof, with a steel,
or other hard metal lining, substantially as set forth.
Secondly-Providing or making, roller end brackets, or the fronts or shells thereof,
with a steel or hard metal lining, (or part lining) secured in position, either by
turning over the edges of inwardly directed eyelet bulgings of the front part, upon
the lining as aforesaid; or turning over the boundary edges, or parts of the
boundary edges of the front part, upon adjacent parts or bounding edges of the
lining, or hack part, substantially as set forth in figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
and 11.
Thirdly Securing hard metal linings of roller end brackets, to their front parts,
by eyelots, as herein described and set forth in figure 7.
Lastly Securing within the bearing holes of roller end brackets, of a steel or
other hard metal lining, or eyelet, for the purpose, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 19th day of March 1888.