Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
0, is an end elevation.
Fig. 7, is a front view of guide pulley.
In the drawing 1, is the window head or top frame, to this I secure by screws
or nails 2, the metallic shoe 3, to which is fastened by pins or screws 2¹ the
bracket 4.
The shoe combined with the bracket which in this case forms the cord and
tape suspender are usually stamped out of thin metal such as brass and afterwards
bent over in a press tool to the shape shewn, the upper part of the bracket is
rounded as at 5, and forms the suspension for the tape 6, which carries the laths 7.
A pulley 8, revolving upon a pin 9, is mounted in the lower part of the bracket
and over this passes the cords 10, by which the blind is raised or lowered, the
cords are then led over a pulley 8, see Figs. 5, 7, mounted as shewn in a bracket ++,
fitting into a shoe 3. In Figs. 1, 2, the suspending bracket shown is that on the
left side of the window head consequently only one of the cords for raising and
lowering the blind is shewn, the cords 10' for tilting the blind are shewn attached
by tacks 12, in the usual manner to the top lath.
The operation of this first form of my invention is as follows. The milled
headed screws or pins 2' replacing them are removed from the shoe 3, this at
once sets free the bracket 4, the tapes or cords having been repaired the bracket
is replaced and secured by the pins as before.
A modification of my invention as just described is shewn in Figs. 3 and 4.
This consists of a metallic shoe 3, the ends and parts of the side of which are bent
over as at 13, 14, the bracket 4, which may be stamped out or cast is then slipped
into the space thus formed and secured by ordinary wood or metal screws 2, passing
into the woodwork of the window head 1, or into the metal shoe as the case may
be, the shoe is secured to the window head by screws 2 as shewn.

page_text: In Figs. 5, and 6, I have shown a form of bracket for attaching direct to the
window head without the intervention of a shoe, this, which is formed by means of
a press tool from this metal or by casting as previously described is attached by
screws 2, direct to the window head 1, the upper part is rounded as at 5, to enable the
webbing to turn freely upon it, a pulley 8, being fitted as shewn over which pass
the cords 10, for raising and lowering the blind these are then led over a guide
pulley 8, the frame of which 4 is preferably stamped out of sheet metal and
inounted in a shoc 3, as in the case of the suspending brackets previously
described. It can instantly be removed for cleaning and oiling by taking out the
metal or wood screws 2.
The illustrations shew the suspension bracket as fitted to the right hand side of
the window head.
I do not confine myself to the exact shapes of the respective parts as these may
be modified to some extent without departing from my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
-claim is
1. The improved cord guide and tape or webbing suspender constructed and
operating in the way and manner herein described.
2. In a cord guide and tape suspender applicable to Venetian and similar blinds
the combination and use of the shoe 3 for attachment to the window head with the
combined cord and tape suspender secured to the said shoe by screws pins or the
like substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.
3. The particular form of cord guide and tape suspender described under
Figs. 5, and 6, for attachment direct to the window head without a shoe substan-
tially as described.
4. The combination and use with the particular form of cord guides and
suspension brackets herein described of the detachablo guide pulley 4 secured to
the shoe 3 by screws in the way and manner set forth.
Dated this 15th day of October 1895.
FRANCIS M. ROGERS.
Agent.