Holding or Fixing Rods or Bars for Carpets, Stair Carpets, Oil Cloths, and similar Articles of Household Use.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th Apr., 1887.
Holding or Fixing Rods or Bars for Carpets, Stair Carpets, Oil Cloths,
and similar Articles of Household Use.
JOSEPH TOONE 108 Highcross Street Leicester Surveyor and Draughtsman do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved Holder or Fastener for Rods or Bars used for the purpose of keeping
in position Carpets, Stair Carpets, Floor Cloths, Dust Sheets, and similar Articles
requiring to be frequently and easily removed for the purpose of Cleaning, &c.
The nature of the Invention is to arrange a Fixing or Holder for the before named
Rods or Bars so that any unskilled person or servant may easily remove the Rods or
Bars for Cleaning or other purpose without removing the Holder or Fixing from its
position, and to again replace the Rods or Bars in their proper position.
And I further describe the Improvement in the Holder or Fixing to be in the Form
of the said Holder or Fixing being held at one end on a Stud, Pivot, or Screw, so
that it may revolve, or be turned against or away from, the Rod or Bar it is required
to hold in position, and having at the other end when holding the Rod or Bar, a plate
fastened on the Step or Floor or similar means to support the strain on the Stud or
Pivot on which the Holder revolves.
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Camianahon 1002

page_text: and similar Articles of Household Use.
JOSEPH TOONE 108 Highcross Street Leicester Surveyor and Draughtsman I Joseph
Toone do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED HOLDER OR
FIXING FOR RODS, OR BARS FOR CARPETS, STAIR CARPETS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Heretofore when Rods or Bars have been used to hold in position, Carpets Stair
Carpets, Oil Clothis, Dust Sheets and similar Articles of household use, the Holder or
Fixing for the ends of the Rods or Bars have been permanently fastened at both ends
by Studs Screws or other means to the Stairs, Walls and Floors and the said Holders
or Fixings have required a somewhat skilled person to remove them to liberate the
Rods or Bars.
The object of my Invention is to enable any unskilled person or servant to remove
the said Rods or Bars, and I use a Holder or Fixing attached at one end only to the
Stair Wall, Floor, or other object, by a Stud, Pivot, Screw, or similar means, so that
the Holder or Fixing may revolve or be turned against or away from the said Rod or
Bar, on the said Stud, Pivot or Screw as a Centre.
I also use a plate fixed on the Stair, Wall, Floor or other object, to support the end
of the Holder or Fixing not held by the Stud, Pivot, or Screw, and to take away part
of the strain from the said Stud, Pivot or Screw.
Fig. 1, of the Drawings hereunto annexed is a view of the front elevation shewing
the older or Fixing in position with a portion of a Rod or Bar, the dotted lines a. a.
shew the position of the said Holder or Fixing when turned away from the said Rod
or Bar.
Fig. 2, is a side view or end clevation of Fig. 1, with a section of Stairs and of
Rod or Bar.
Fig. 3, is a plan view of Fig. 1, also shewing view of Plate fig. 4 in proper
position.
Fig. 4, is a plan view of a Plate used to support when in position the end of the
Holder or Fixing not held by the Stud, Pivot, or Screw.
Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line b, b, Fig. 2 shewing the curved form of the
Holder or Fixing, the Centre for the Curved dotted lines e. c on Figs. 1 and 5 being
the Centre of the Stud, Pivot, or Screw, on which the Hölder or Fixing turns.
The form of the Holder or Fixing may be made to be used with Rods or Bars of

page_text: any form of sectional area, as square triangular or other form, as well as circular as
shewn by the Drawings.
I would remark that although I use a plate Fig. 4 on. Drawings annexed, to support
one end of the Holder or Fixing, yet the end may be supported by using a small
groove cut in the Stair, Wall, Floor or other object.
In the Drawings annexed the manner and use of the Holder or Fixing, and of the
Plate are clearly and distinctly shown.
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 which I claim is
1. The Form and arrangement of a Holder or Fixing substantially such as herein-
before described and shewn at Figures No. 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5 of the Drawings annexed.
2. The Form and Arrangement of a Holder or Fixing to be held at one end only,
an a Stud, Pivot, Screw, or similar attachment, so that the said Fixing or Holder may
revolve or Turn on the said Stud, Pivot, or Screw as Centre, as heretofore shewn and
described by figures No. 1. 2. 3 and 5 of the Drawings annexed.
Dato this Seventh day of March 1887