IMPROVEMENTS IN RODS AND RINGS FOR SUPPORTING CURTAINS, AND FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Booth, of the City of Manchester, Carver and
Gilder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RODS AND RINGS FOR
SUPPORTING CURTAINS, AND FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES."
Sealed the 6th August 1878, and dated the 7th February 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Booth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th February 1878.
JAMES BOOTH, of the City of Manchester, Carver and Gilder.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN RODS AND RINGS FOR SUPPORTING CURTAINS, AND FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES."
The object of this Invention is to construct a rod of less weight than has hitherto
been practicable as applied to the purpose, and to provide rings or their equivalent
for running along such improved rod, with an easier and sweeter movement than
has hitherto been obtainable. I take a piece of T iron, and inverting the same
thus L, I attach it to the bottom of the ordinary curtain and valance lath or board,
and I then slide on to such rod the required number of rings, which are constructed
with a gap thus so that one edge of the gap is on one side of the web of
the T iron, and the other edge on the other side.
The rings or their equivalents of any other desired shape may be constructed of
metal or any other suitable material, and it will be obvious that instead of T iron
any other form of iron or metal rod which would permit the gap rings to run along.
with sufficient freedom and without becoming disengaged might be substituted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Booth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th August
1878.
JAMES BOOTH, of the City of Manchester, Carver and Gilder.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN RODS AND RINGS FOR SUPPORTING CURTAINS, AND FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES."
The object of this Invention is to construct a rod of less weight than has hitherto
been practicable as applied to the purpose, and to provide rings or their equivalent
for running along such improved rod with an easier and sweeter movement than bas
hitherto been attainable.
And in order that this my said Invention may be the more readily seen and
understood, I have hereunto annexed a Drawing illustrative of the same, reference
being had to the letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 illustrates a front view, and Fig. 2 an end sectional view of a curtain rod
and rings constructed in accordance with my Invention.
A is the ordinary curtain and valance lath or board, hercin-after called the
bearing board; B is my improved construction of curtain rod, consisting of a piece
of T iron inverted, and attached at suitable intervals by the wire nails C, (or by
screws, or in any other suitable manner) to the bottom or under surface of the
bearing board A, and which nails are clenched on the upper side thereof, as illus-
trated. Upon this rod B I slide the required number of rings D, which form a part
of this Invention, being constructed with a gap (as seen more clearly in Fig. 2), so
that one edge of such gap or opening is on one side of the web of the Tiron bar B,
as illustrated, and the outer edge on the other side, the result being that such rings
slide upon the rod with an easier and sweeter movement than has hitherto been
attainable.
Fig. 3 of the accompanying Drawing represents a front view, and Figs. 4 and 5
are end sectional views of a modification of my improved curtain rod, consisting of a
piece of H or double T iron marked E, and of a set of rings F which only differ in
'form from those illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The leader ring G and cord H being
employed for drawing the rings F to and fro along the rod E, and the horns I upon
the rings F being designed to prevent the cord H falling out of its place.
This construction of rod for supporting curtains, and equally useful for other
analagous purposes, is advantageous on account of its lightness and strength, of the
facility with which it can be bent to any desired form, and the ease with which it
can be secured at the desired intervals to the bearing board without interfering with
the path of the rings.
The gap rings or their equivalents of any desired shape may be constructed of
metal or any other suitable material, and it will be obvious that instead of Tiron
any other form of iron or metal rod which would permit the gap rings to run along
.with sufficient freedom and without becoming disengaged might be substituted.
I claim the improved construction of rod and gap rings, substantially as and
for the purposes herein-before described, and illustrated on the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Booth, have hereunto set my hand
and seal this 6th day of August in the year of our Lord 1878.