Improvements in Securing Detachable Ends to Cornice Poles, and to other like Poles or Rods.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1389
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Detachable Ends to Cornice Poles, and to
other like Poles or Rods.
I, FRANK APPLEYARD of Main Street Rotherham in the County of York, Upholsterer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
My invention relates to a simple means or device for securing detachable knobs
or other forms of ends or terminals to Cornice poles, Picture rods, and other like
rods, instead of the usual method of securing them together, the object of the
invention being chiefly to enable the workman to put the parts together, or to
separate them in an expeditious and secure manner.
It consists in providing the knob or other terminal with a central pin, having
one or more of its sides expansible and compressible, or otherwise so constructed
that when passed into a corresponding hole it will have an elastic pressure against
the sides of the said hole.
A simple and effective plan of carrying out my invention is to utilize the centre
pin by which the component parts of ornamental metallic knobs are usually secured
together, by splitting or otherwise making the projecting end in two parts divided
longitudinally, so that the two parts may be compressed or forced together when
pushed into a suitable hole in the end of the pole.
In the case of a metallic tubular pole or rod, I fix a plate in the end having a
centre hole of such a size that when the centre pin of the knob or other terminal
is forced into it, the parts of the pin are compressed, and are held firmly against
the sides of the hole by their elasticity and frictional contact.
In the case of wood poles, the hole for the pin may be bored in the wood, and
a metallic end plate be let into the end of the pole, and be secured by screws or
nails.
The centre pin may be of any configuration such as round, square or oblong,
and it may be provided with an indentation or a shoulder as a further means of
retarding the terminal in a particular position.
Dated the 10th day of November 1888.
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. .
Improvements in Securing Detachable Ends to Cornice Poles, and to
other like Poles or Rods.
I, FRANK APPLEYARD of Main Street Rotherham in the County of York,
Upholsterer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
samo is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention relates to a simple means or device for securing detachable knobs
or other like or equivalent terminals to Cornice poles, picture rods, and other like
rods, in place of securing the said parts together; the object being chiefly to enable
the workman to put the parts together, and to separate them expeditiously.
The annexed sheet of drawings illustrates the said invention, and similar letters
of reference indicate similar parts in any of the figures.
Fig. 1, represents in section, the end of a wood pole, and a terminal with the
appliances for securing them together.
Fig. 2, the elastic gripper, preferably made of steel.
Fig. 3. shows a modification in the arrangement of the gripper.

page_text: This invention may be carried into practice in two methods, one by the use of a
compressible pin, the other by the use of an expanding spring tube, one method being
merely the reverse of the other.
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In the first named method I provide the knob or terminal with a central projecting
pin, having one or more of its sides made expansible, or it may be made tubular and
compressible, similar to the tubular portion of a pen holder, this elastic sided pin,
which may be simply a longitudinally split pin, is forced into a corresponding hole
made in the end of the cornice pole, being thereby compressed, and holding the parts
together by its elastic pressure against the sides of the hole.
I prefer however to use the reverse method which I have illustrated in the drawings;
in this arrangement I employ a simple solid pin A, and an elastic tube or
gripper B.
The elastic tubular gripper B, I prefer to make of steel in the shape shown in
Fig. 2, having a split tubular body, tapered from the entrance to the opposite
end D, it is provided with the means of securing it to the wood work, such as the four
arms shown with holes for pins or screws as seen in Fig. 1.
This gripper is let into a hole HI made in the end of the pole P, as in Fig. 1, or
into the terminal as shown in Fig. 3, and secured.
The knob F if the method or arrangement shown in Fig. 1, is used, is provided
with a projecting pin A, that will just enter the gripper opening at C, and when this
pin is forced forward it expands the gripper as seen in the right hand diagram of
Fig. 1, and is firmly held by frictional contact, with sufficient force for all practical
purposes.
If the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, is preferred the gripper is let into the
terminal F, and the pin A secured to the pole P.
I wish it to be understood that I do not bind myself to the precise details as shown
in the drawings, although such answer well in practice, but :-
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same may be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1-In securing knobs or other terminals to Cornice poles, or similar poles, the
arrangement of a compressible spring pin on one part, fitting into a corresponding
hole in the other part, as hereinbefore described, for the purpose specified.
2-In securing knobs or other terminals to Cornice poles or similar poles, the device
of an expansible spring tube, or gripper, secured to one part, and a suitable pin
to fit into same secured to the other part substantially as herein before described and
illustrated.
Dated the 14th day of Anant 1880