Improvements in Picture or Curtain Rods and Appliances connected therewith
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 7th May, 1891-Accepted, 13th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture or Curtain Rods and Appliances
connected therewith
We, THE MIDLAND IRON COMPANY LIMITED, of the Midland Iron Works
Rotherham, in the County of York, Iron Manufacturers and DAVID DAVY, of the
same place, Chairman of the said Company, do hereby declare the nature of our
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN PICTURE OR CURTAIN RODS AND
APPLIANCES CONNECTED THEREWITH to be as follows:-
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Picture and curtain rods (hereinafter referred to as rods) as commonly used are
made of metallic tubes which are affixed to the wall of a room by means of hooks
or staples, and rods so made and affixed are usually finished off with some ornamental
device at their ends, they also require a number of hooks or staples to support
them especially when they have to carry heavy pictures or curtains, otherwise the
rods, unless made exceedingly strong and heavy would deflect between the supports
and become unsightly, and as the rods and staples or hooks herein described are
generally made of brass or lacquered metal, they are expensive both in the first
cost and in the fixing.
Sometimes an appliance is employed in the form of a wood moulding, such
moulding being provided with a groove or recess, from which pictures or curtains
may be suspended, by means of S hooks; such appliances however are bulky,
clumsy and frequently unsafe especially where heavy pictures are suspended
therefrom.
The object of our invention is to provide a rod or rods from which pictures or
curtains may be suspended, such rods possessing great strength combined with
lightness and neatness and which may be more conveniently and securely fixed than
is the case with those herein previously described. Our improved rods likewise
enable pictures to be suspended therefrom so as to hang more compactly and nearer
to the walls than is the case with rods commonly in use.
We effect these objects by making our improved rods in the form of bars or
strips instead of tubes, such bars or strips being in section somewhat like the
moulding of a cornice, and may either have the form of what is known as an ogee
moulding or as a flat ribbed or beaded moukling or other convenient shape; the
upper edge of these bars or strips we form so as to project outwards from the wall
when in position, for a sufficient distance and at such an augle as will allow of an
Shook, or other similar appliance being hung thereon or therefrom.
The bars or strips herein described are provided with holes at convenient
distances apart by means of which they may be nailed, screwed or otherwise
fastened to the wall of a room; in some cases they may be so fastened all round a
room immediately under the cornice or close to the ceiling in other cases they
may be fastened below a frieze so as to form a bead or moulding to the same, and
in either case they will serve the purpose of picture rods or curtain rods or
both and at the same time contribute to the ornamenting and embellishment of the
walls of a room.
These bars or strips of which we make our improved picture or curtain rods may
either be rolled, drawn, stamped, pressed, forged or otherwise made by any convenient
process, by which metal or metallic substances may be manipulated, but by preference
we should roll the said bars or strips in a rolling mill, as in the manufacture of
merchant bars; they may be made either in iron, steel, brass or other metal or
metallic substance suitable for the purpose. When made in iron or steel the bars

page_text: or strips may be afterwards painted, gilded, japanned, lacquered or otherwise
ornamented and finished.
Dated this 15th day of July 1890
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicants.
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Improvements in Picture or Curtain Rods and Appliances
connected therewith.
We, THE MIDLAND IRON COMPANY LIMITED, of the Midland Iron Works
Rotherham, in the County of York, Iron Manufacturers and DAVID DAVY, of the
same place, Chairman of the said Company, do hereby declare the nature of our
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN PICTURE OR CURTAIN RODS AND
APPLIANCES CONNECTED THEREWITH and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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Picture and curtain rods (hereinafter referred to as rods) as commonly used are
made of metallic tubes which are affixed to the wall of a room by means of hooks
or staples, and rods so made and affixed are usually finished off with some orna-
mental device at their ends, they also require a number of hooks or staples to
support them especially when they have to carry heavy pictures or curtains,
otherwise the rods, unless made exceedingly strong and heavy would deflect between
the supports and become unsightly, and as the rods and staples or hooks herein
described are generally made of brass or lacquered metal, they are expensive both
in the first cost and in the fixing
Sometimes an appliance is employed in the form of a wood moulding, such moulding
being provided with a groove or recess, from which pictures or curtains may be
suspended, by means of Shooks: such appliances however are bulky, clumsy and
frequently unsafe especially where heavy pictures are suspended therefrom.
The object of our invention is to provide a rod or rods from which pictures or
curtains may be suspended, such rods possessing great strength combined with
lightness and neatness and which may be more conveniently and securely fixed
than is the case with those herein previously described. Our improved rods
likewise enable pictures to be suspended therefrom so as to hang more compactly
and nearer to the walls than is the case with rods commonly in use.
We effect these objects by making our improved rods in the form of bars or
strips instead of tubes, such bars or strips being in section somewhat like the
moulding of a cornice, and may either have the form of what is known as an ogee
moulding or as a flat ribbed or beaded moulding or other convenient shape; the
upper edge of these bars or strips we form so as to project outwards from the wall
when in position, for a sufficient distance and at such an angle as will allow of an
Shook, or other similar appliance being hung thereon or therefrom.
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The bars or strips herein described are provided with holes at convenient
distances apart by means of which they may be nailed, screwed or otherwise
fastened to the wall of a room; in some cases they may be so fastened all round a
room immediately under the cornice or close to the ceiling; in other cases they
may be fastened below a frieze so as to form a bead or moulding to the same, and
in either case they will serve the purpose of picture rods or curtain rods or both
and at the same time contribute to the ornamenting and embellishment of the walls
of a room.
These bars or strips of which we make our improved picture or curtain rods
may either be rolled, drawn, stamped, pressed, forged or otherwise made by any
convenient process, by which metal or metallic substances may be manipulated but
by preference we should roll the said bars or strips in a rolling mill, as in the
3 manufacture of merchant bars; they may be made either in iron, steel, brass or

page_text: other metal or metallic substance suitable for the purpose. When made in iron
or steel the bars or strips may be afterwards painted, gilded, japanned, lacquered
or otherwise ornamented and finished.
The nature of our invention will be better understood on reference to the annexed
sheet of drawings in which,
Fig. represents a portion of a metallic bar or strip and
Fig. 2 a section of the same being somewhat like the plain moulding of a cornice.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent a similar bar or strip with ribs or beads and
Figs. 5 and 6 represent a similar bar or strip somewhat like an ogee moulding.
We do not confine ourselves to these particular sections which may be varied
according to circumstances.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
a, is the projection of the strip extending a sufficient distance from the wall and
at such an angle as to allow an S hook being hung thereon or therefrom.
b, is the S hook referred to represented by the dotted lines.
c, represents one of the holes which are placed at convenient distances apart by
means of which the bars or strips may be nailed, screwed or otherwise fastened to
the wall of a room or elsewhere.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is;
(1.) In the manufacture of metallic bars or strips so rolling drawing or other-
wise forming special sections adapted for use as picture or curtain rods in the
manner and for the purposes herein described and illustrated.
(2.) In picture or curtain rods or in picture and curtain rods making the same
out of special sections of metallic bars or strips rolled drawn or otherwise formed
in the manner and for the purposes herein described and illustrated.
(3.) Improvements in picture or curtain rods and appliances connected therewith
in the manner and for the purposes herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 5th day of May 1891.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicants.