Improvements in Brackets or Supports for Domestic and other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Nov., 1889-Accepted. 28th Dec.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets or Supports for Domestic and other
Purposes.
1. JAMES FOSTER of 39 Kent Street, Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Spindle
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in brackets or supports for hanging curtains,
valances, clothes rods, and other articles for domestic and other purposes, such as, for
supporting down-spouts, pipes, street and other signs, show cases, advertisement.
boards, bars for closing openings between one enclosure of land and another, and
for other analogous purposes.
Each bracket or support is constructed of any suitable materials, and is provided
with a slot or passage on its upper and lower sides, and a bar, slot, or recess in the
centre or thereabouts to form a slot or passage on its lower or bottom side. The front
side of the double slots or passages is formed in any convenient manner with an
angular or other slot or opening to admit the article intended to be supported
therefrom. The said brackets or supports are well adapted for hanging down-spouts
thereon, and allows of pipe being removed without taking the entire stack down.
The brackets or supports are provided with means for securing the same to walls or
other places with screws, nails, or bolts.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets or Supports for Domestic and other
Purposes.
I, JAMES FOSTER of 39 Kent Street, Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Spindle
Maker, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in brackets or supports for hanging curtains,
valances, clothes rods, and other articles for domestic and other purposes, such as, for
supporting down-spouts, pipes, street and other signs, show cases, advertisement
boards, bars for closing openings between one enclosure of land and another, and for
other analogous purposes.
Each bracket or support is constructed of any suitable materials, and is provided
with a slot or passage on its upper and lower sides, and a bar, slot or recess in the
centre or thereabouts to form a slot or passage on its lower or bottom side. The front
side of the double slots or passages is formed in any convenient manner with an
angular or other slot or opening to admit the article intended to be supported
therefrom. The said brackets or supports are well adapted for hanging down-spouts
thereon, and allows of any pipe being removed without taking the entire stack down.
The brackets or supports are provided with means for securing the same to walls or
other places with screws, nails, or bolts.

page_text: The bracket or support is composed of the back-plate A, side B, upper end C, lower
end D, and the bar E. The slots or passages F. F. above and below the bar E are
provided to admit the rod or bar G. From the latter can be hung curtains, valances,
clothes, street and other signs, show cases, and other articles for domestic and other
purposes. The rod or bar G can be placed in the lower end D as shown in full
lines, or in the upper end C as shown in dotted lines. When these brackets or
supports are employed for carrying street and other signs, show cases, advertisement
boards, and other similar articles, the articles themselves can be provided with pro-
jections similar to the ends of the bar G, in which case the latter is dispensed with.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of my improved double bracket or support, and Fig. 4
is a front view of same.
In these figures it will be seen that rain-water and other pipes can be carried
by my improved brackets or supports. The pipe or down-spout H is provided with
the ears or projections I, which, when being placed in the brackets or supports,
passes through the slot F and down the passage J to the lower end D as shown.
If desired the ears or projections I can be placed in the upper end C as shown in
dotted lines, in which case they rest on the bars E.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of my improved single brackets or supports, and Fig. 6
is a front view of same.
In this arrangement the bar E is dispensed with; the other parts being as before
described.
Fig. 7 is a side elevation of my improved brackets or supports specially designed
for hanging curtains and valances together over windows or other parts, and Fig. 8
is a front view of same.
In this arrangement my improvement consists in mounting two or more chambers D
on the ornamental or other bracket T. The rods or bars G are passed through the
slots or passages F, and rest on the lower ends D, from whence curtains and valances
can be supported at the same time.
These brackets or supports can be employed for carrying two or more rods at
once for hanging articles for sale therefrom in shops and other places.
The back-plates A of my improved brackets or supports are provided with the
holes M, to allow of their being screwed, nailed, or bolted to any kind of support.
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 what
I claim is
The use of the brackets or supports constructed in the manner herein described
and as shown on the drawings for the purposes specified.
Dated the 18th November 1889.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.