Ax IMPROVEMENT IN CURTAIN RINGS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Rooker, of East Street, Lamb's Conduit
Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "Ax
IMPROVEMENT IN CURTAIN RINGS."
Sealed the 27th November 1868, and dated the 15th September 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Rooker at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th September 1868.
I, ALFRED ROOKER, of East Street, Lamb's Conduit Street, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CURTAIN RINGS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to diminish the friction and the noise
in moving curtain rings along the poles, and the improvement consists
in fitting or providing the rings with one or more pulleys, rollers, balls,
or circular discs at a point about diametrically opposite the point of
attachment of the curtain hook. As the ring is caused to move along
the pole the pulleys, rollers, balls, or discs rotate on their axes or centres,
and thereby diminish the friction and noise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Rooker in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
ROOKER, of East Street, Lamb's Conduit Street, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Rooker, Her special
licence that I, the said -Alfred Rooker, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Rooker, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and, lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN CURTAIN RINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said. Alfred Rooker, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Rooker, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to diminish the friction and the noise
in moving curtain rings along the poles, and the improvement consists
in fitting or providing the rings with one or more pulleys, rollers, balls,
or circular discs at a point about diametrically opposite the point of
attachment of the curtain hook. As the ring is caused to move along
the pole the pulleys, rollers, balls, or discs rotate on their axes or centres,
and thereby diminish the friction and noise.

page_text: In order that my Invention may be fully understood I annex the
accompanying Drawings :-
Figure 1 is a view of a ring in which a portion of the circle is removed
for the insertion of a roller A, this roller is kept in place by a pin which
passes through it; one end of the pin is first passed through one side
of the ring before entering into the other side, where it finds an abut-
ment against the end of the hole made to receive it. A button or stud
may be placed upon the end of the pin or over the hole so that an
ornamental appearance may be given to the ring, or the hole may be
closed up flush with the ring. The roller may be fitted to hollow rings
in the same manner as represented in Figure 2. The roller may be flat
or curved as shown, or of any other shape, and more than one roller may
be employed if desired.
Figure 3 represents a ring fitted with two discs B, B, to act in the
same manner as the roller A, and Figure 4 shews another ring fitted
with two spheres or balls; these, as well as the discs, are connected to
the ring by the pin on which they move, being fixed by solder or other-
wise. The distance the discs or spheres or other forms of rolling bodies
are placed apart when two or a larger number are used will be regulated
by the diameter of the pole or rod on which the rings are mounted in
order to diminish friction as much as possible. The rollers, discs, balls,
or pulleys may be covered with leather or other medium to lessen the
noise or deaden the sound if necessary. The rings may have eyes or
other appliances fitted to them for the curtain hooks to be fastened to.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, pro-
viding curtain rings with one or more pulleys, rollers, balls, or circular
discs in the manner above described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Rooker, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty nine