Improvements in Securing Knobs or Ends to Cornice Poles and similar Poles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Knobs or Ends to Cornice Poles and
similar Poles.
I, WALTER APPLEYARD of Leopold Street Sheffield in the county of York
Colonial Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is for an improved method of securing the terminal knobs or other
like ends to cornice poles, or other similar poles, the object being to avoid the trouble
and inconvenience of having to screw such knobs or ends to the poles as is now the
method in common use.
In carrying out my invention, in attaching a metallic knob to a metallic tubular rod,
for example, I prepare a metal plate to correspond with and fit into the end of the said
tube, and I cast or otherwise form the said end plate with a centre hole, and a
segmental slot having at one end an enlarged opening. This segmental slot which is
formed concentric with the said centre hole, and is situated between the centre hole
and the periphery of the plate, and it may be of any desired length.
Instead of securing this end plate level with the end of the tube or pole, I fix it at
an angle thereto, as if one side of the plate had been pushed rather further into the
tube than the other; this lower edge is the one nearest the sinaller end of the segmental
slot beforementioned.
On the face of the knob that abuts against the end of the tubular pole, is a central
pin to fit in the centre hole of the end plate before mentioned, and between the centre
pin and the outside, a stud with a head is secured.
When the centre pin on the knob is passed into the centre hole of the end-plate,
and the head of the stud is passed through the enlarged opening into the slot, the knob
is turned round, causing the head of the stud to bind tightly against the inside face
of the end plate, as it recedes from the edge of the tube or pole, and thus secures the
two parts firmly together.
The end plate may however have an incline cast or otherwise formed upon its under-
side, so that its face may be fixed level with the end of the tube or pole.
Various minor modifications may be made without departing from the invention,
and it may be applied to wood cornice poles.
Dated the 2nd day of November 1888.
KOBT. F. DRURY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Knobs or Ends to Cornice Poles and
similar Poles.
I WALTER APPLEYARD of Leopold Street, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Colonial Merchant, 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 :-
This invention is for an improved method of securing the terminal knobs or other
like ends to cornice poles, or other similar poles; the object being to avoid the trouble
and inconvenience of having to screw such knobs or ends to the poles as is now the
common practice.
The annexed sheet of Drawings illustrates my invention, and the same letters of
reference indicate the same parts in any of the figures.
Fig. 1, represents the catch plate.

page_text: Fig. 3, section of same showing the incline.
Fig. 4, the terminal knob and catch pin.
In carrying out my invention in attaching a terminal ornamental knob to a metallic
rod or tubular pole A, for example, 1 prepare a metal plato B, Fig. 1, preferably to
correspond with and fit into the end of the tubular cornice pole A, seen in Figs. 2 and 3,
and I cast or otherwise form the said catch plate with a centro hole Cand a segmental
slot D, with an enlarged opening E at one end.
This segmental slot which is made concentric with the centre hole C, is situated as
shown, and may be of any desired length.
Instead of fixing the catch plate B. level with the end of the tubular pole A, I fix it'
at an angle thereto as shown in Fig. 3, the receding side being that nearest to the
small end of the segmental slot D.
On the face of the knob F, Fig. 4, or other like terminal, which is to fit against the
end of the pole, a central pin G projects, and is intended to fit into the centre hole C
of the plate B, and at a suitable distance from the pin G, a screw or headed stud H is
secured and projects as shown.
When therefore the centre pin of the knob is passed into the centre hole of the
catch plate, and the head of the stud His passed through the opening E into the
slot D, and the knob Fis turned round, the head of the stud binds against the inclined
or receding part of the catch plate, and thus secures the knob firmly to the
pole.
Although prefer to incline the catch plate as shown, I may form an incline upon
the back of the plate, in which case the face of the plate can be fixed level with the
end of the pole the invention may be easily applied to wood poles.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same may be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1-The method of securing detachable knobs or other like terminals, to cornice
poles, and other like poles, substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
2-In securing detachable knobs or other like terminals to their poles, the use of a
metal catch plate 13, and a headed stud II, for the purpose specified, substantially as
described and shown.
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