Improved Means for Retaining Window Blinds of Railway Carriages in any Desired Position.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1801
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Retaining Window Blinds of Railway Carriages
in any Desired Position.
I, GEORGE JACKSON CHURCHWARD of 13 Gloster Terrace, Swindon in the
County of Wilts, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:--
In combination with a spring blind for railway carriage windows I employ small
hooks of stamped or pressed sheet metal, preferably brass, of the shape shewn on
drawing herewith.
These hooks I affix by means of nails or screws to the sides of railway carriage
window frames.
The stick or rod which is usually employed at the lower margin of the spring
blind has projecting ends which engage with these hooks and so retain the blind in
the desired position.
For this purpose, at present, it is usual to cut notches in the side frames of the
railway carriage windows or to affix thereto strips of wood having notches cut
in them.
My invention attains the desired end with more facility at a less cost and without
disturbing the framework of the railway carriage window.
It must be understood that I do not claim a hook cast of metal or a hook of bent
wire or rod but a hook stamped or pressed by dies out of sheet metal, brass by
preference, and of the shape shewn by the drawings herewith.
Dated this 13th day of May 1891.
GEORGE JACKSON CHURCHWARD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Retaining Window Blinds of Railway Carriages
in any Desired Position.
I, GEORGE JACKSON CHURCHWARD of 13 Gloster Terrace, Swindon, in the
County of Wilts, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
In combination with a spring blind for railway carriage windows I employ small
hooks of stamped or pressed sheet metal, preferably brass, of the shape, substan-
tially, as shewn on drawing left with Provisional Specification.
These hooks I affix by means of nails or screws to the sides of railway carriage
window frames.
The stick or rod which is usually employed at the lower margin of the spring
blind has projecting ends which engage with these hooks and so retain the blind in
the desired position.
For this purpose up to the present it has been usual to cut notches in the side
frames of the railway carriage windows or to affix thereto strips of wood having
notches cut in them.
My invention attains the desired end with more facility at a less cost and without
disturbing the frame work of the railway carriage windows.
It must be understood that I do not claim a hook cast of metal or a hook of bent
wire or rod but a hook stamped or pressed by dies out of sheet metal, brass by
preference, and substantially of the shape shewn on drawing left with Provisional
Specification.

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
In combination with a spring blind for a railway carriage window the use of a
hook stamped or pressed by dies out of sheet metal for the purpose above described 5
and of the shape substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 7th day of August 1891.
GEORGE JACKSON CHURCH WARD.