Improvements in the Manufacture of Eyes for Holding Stair Rods and other Rods.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 18th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 21st June, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Eyes for Holding Stair Rods
and other Rods.
I, FREDERIC ARTHUR HARRISON of Legge Lane, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
My invention relates to a method of making eyes for holding stair rods and other
rods by which I secure simplicity and economy in manufacture.
I will now describe an eye according to my invention for holding a stair rod in the
angle contained between the tread and the riser of a step. By means of tools
operated by a press, I cut out of sheet brass or other metal or alloy of suitable
thickness, a blank of suitable shape. This blank has a broad middle portion and two
limbs or projections, one of these limbs terminates in a sharp point and is intended
for driving into the tread of the step. The other limb I flatten by means of dies or
tools, operated by pressure, to a sufficient width for piercing a countersunk hole,
through which by a screw or nail the eye can be affixed to the riser of the step. Í
then pierce a hole through the broad middle portion of the blank large enough to
receive a stair rod and then finish in the ordinary manner.
Instead of forming the lower limb of the blank into a sharp point, it may be
formed of a corresponding shape and at a right angle to the upper limb and a
countersunk hole pierced through it for affixing it to the tread of the step by means of
a screw or nail.
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page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Eyes for Holding Stair Rods
and other Rods.
I, FREDERIC ARTHUR HARRISON of Legge Lane Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, manufacturer, 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 a method of making eyes for holding stair rods and other
rods by which I secure simplicity and economy in manufacture.
I will now describe an eye according to my invention for holding a stair rod in the
angle contained between the tread and the riser of a step.
By means of dies or tools operated by a press I cut out of sheet brass or other
metal or alloy of suitable thickness a blank of suitable shape. This blank has a broad
middle portion and two limbs or projections, one of these limbs terminates in a sharp
point and is intended for driving into the tread of the step. The other limb I flatten
by means of dies or tools operated by pressure to a sufficient width for piercing a
countersunk hole, through which by a screw or nail the eye can be affixed to the riser
of the step.
I then pierce a hole large enough to receive a stair rod through the broad middle
portion of the blank and then finish in the ordinary manner.
Instead of forming the lower limb of the blank into a sharp point it may be formed
of a corresponding shape and at a right angle to the upper limb and a countersunk
hole pierced through it for affixing it to the tread of the step by means of a screw
or nail.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in side elevation and Figure 2
represents in front elevation a blank of brass or other metal or alloy with two limbs or
projections, one of these limbs a terminates in a sharp point and is intended for
driving into the tread of the step. The other limb 6 is intended for flattening by
means of dies or tools operated by pressure to a sufficient width for piercing a
countersunk hole.
Figure 3 represents in front elevation an eye with the limb b flattened to a sufficient
width for piercing a countersunk hole c through which by a screw or nail the eye
can be affixed to the riser of the step.
Figure 4 represents in side elevation a complete stair eye with a hole d pierced
through the broad middle portion large enough to receive a stair rod.
Figure 5 represents in side elevation and Figure 6 represents in front elevation a
blank of brass or other metal or alloy with the lower limb of a corresponding shape
and at a right angle to the upper limb.
Figure 7 represents an eye with both limbs b flattened to a sufficient width for
piercing countersunk holes c through which by a screw or nail the eye can be affixed
to the stair.

page_text: Figure 8 represents in side elevation a complete stair eye with limbs at a right
angle and a hole d pierced through the broad middle portion large enough to receive
a stair rod.
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
Improvements in the manufacture of eyes for holding stair rods and other
rods":
First Cutting out of sheet brass or other metal or alloy a blank with a broad
middle portion provided with two limbs or projections, one limb terminating in a
sharp point, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawing.
Secondly Cutting out of sheet brass or other metal or alloy a blank with broad
middle portion provided with two limbs at right angle, the lower limb corresponding
in shape to the upper limb, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in
Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawing.
Thirdly Flattening one or both of the said limbs to a sufficient width for piercing
a countersunk hole for attaching screw or nail, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in Figures 3. 4. 7. and 8 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of May 1887.
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