Improvements in Rug and Carpet Fasteners.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
Improvements in Rug and Carpet Fasteners.
I, JOSEPH ALEXANDER DABROWSKI, Drug Clerk No. 4 East 43rd Street,.
New York, in the County of New York, State of New York, one of the United
States of America, 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 certain new and useful improvements in rug and carpet
fasteners, the object of the same being to provide a simple and cheaply constructed
device for holding rugs and carpets in place which will dispense with the use of
ordinary tacks now employed, and will present no projecting surface.
The invention consists of a plate adapted to be secured to the floor having
outwardly extending pointed prongs or projections thereon, which are inclined
slightly from the main or body part of said plate, and are adapted to engage the
under face of the rug or carpet.
The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 represents a sectional view showing my device applied.
Figure 2 is a detail perspective view of the form of my device which is used at
the corners of the rug or carpet.
Figure 3 is a similar view of the form used at points intermediate of the ends of
the carpet.
Figure 4 is an edge view of the same.
Like reference numerals indicate like parts in the different views.
My improved fastening device is made up of a plate 1 of metal having
openings 2-2 therein for receiving screws or other securing devices, and having
formed upon its pointed prongs or projections 3-3, which are adapted to engage.
the under surfaces of the carpet 4. The prongs 3-3 incline upwardly from the
main body part of the plate 1 in order that they may be passed into the material
of which the rug is made.
In Figure 1 of the drawings is illustrated a sectional view showing the application
of my invention. In actual practice I propose to use one of the fasteners 1 at each
corner of the rug, the same being secured in place by means of the screws 5—5.
passing through the openings 2. When in place it is merely necessary in order to
secure the rug 4 to the floor, to stretch the same until its corners extend over the
top surface of the plate 1, when the backward pressure on said rug will force the
prongs 3-3 into engagement with the under surface of said rug. The use of tacks.
and other analogous devices which project from the top surface of the rug is
dispensed with and the fastening device is completely hidden by the carpet.
The prongs in that form of the device which is used at the corners of the rug
extend radially from the center of the plate, and in that used at points intermediate
of the ends of the carpet, they all extend in substantially the same direction
parallel to one another. The two forms are clearly illustrated in the drawings.
Instead of the circular openings 2 in the plate 1 through which screws are
passed for the purpose of attaching the plate to the floor, I may provide the
plate 1 with a single triangular, diamond, or other irregular shaped opening, in
which is adapted to fit a triangular or other peg or nail corresponding in shape in
cross section with the opening in the plate. By this means the plate is prevented
from turning and needs but one nail or pin.

page_text: 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 :
1. As a new article of manufacture, a fastening device for rugs and carpets,
consisting of a plate adapted to be secured to the floor and provided with pointed
prongs thereon.
2. As a new article of manufacture, a fastening device for rugs and carpets,
consisting of a plate adapted to be secured to the floor and provided with pointed
prongs thereon, the said prongs extending upwardly from the main body part of
the plate.
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3. As a new article of manufacture, a fastening device for rugs and carpets
consisting of a plate adapted to be secured to the floor and provided with pointed
prongs thereon, the said prongs extending upwardly from the main body part of
the plate and extending outwardly on substantially radial lines.
Dated this 004
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.