IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPORTS OR FASTENINGS FOR CURTAINS OR BLINDS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James David Richards and John
Fairhurst at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th August
1881.
JAMES DAVID RICHARDS and JOHN FAIRHURST, both of Sheffield, in the County
of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPORTS OR FASTENINGS FOR CURTAINS OR
BLINDS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES."
This Invention relates to supports or fastenings for curtains or blinds and other
similar articles.
This Invention consists of four brackets or rests used in combination with two
or four rods, poles, or laths. Two of the brackets are for the top of the blind or
curtain, one being right hand and the other left, and two of the said brackets are
for the bottom of the blind or curtain, one being right hand and the other left.
In that construction in which four rods are employed, the two top brackets will
have horizontal lips or recesses, into which the horizontal top rod can be dropped
from above and which will hold it, and the said brackets will also have vertical_
recesses or lips at the sides thereof into which the top ends of the side or vertical
rods will enter, and against which they will rest. The bottom brackets will have
front horizontal recesses opening outwards into which the bottom horizontal rod
can be entered from the front, and will also have side recesses opening outwards,
into which the side vertical rods can be entered from the side, and on the bottom
of which the said vertical rods will stand.
The brackets will have screw stems which will be screwed into the woodwork
of the window with which the blind or curtain is used; or as a modification, the
said brackets may be made adjustable by being made to slide in a frame, the said
frame being screwed to the woodwork of the window, the bracket being adjustable
in the frame by screw and nut, ratchet rack and pawl wedge, or other equivalent
appliance.
The rods, poles, or laths may be of any convenient form in cross section, for
instance, round, rectangular, or polygonal. The blind or curtain may have loops
or rings through which the rods will be threaded, or the blind and rods may be
fitted with hooks and rings, or hooks and eyes, or other equivalent appliances, by
which they can be secured together.

page_text: In fixing the blind or curtain, the top rod and top of the blind may be secured
together and the rod laid in position; the bottom rod may then be secured to the
blind and the rod entered into the recesses in the bottom brackets by which the
blind will be stretched tight vertically. One side rod (say the right hand) will
then be threaded through or secured to the blind and placed in position, and then
the second (say the left hand) will likewise be threaded through or secured to the
blind and placed in position by which the blind will be pulled tight horizontally.
If the blind and loops are of the proper size the blind will be stretched tight each
way and be preserved in its proper state and position by the improved brackets
and rods.
The blind or curtain may be of any ordinary fabric or material; the rods may be
of wood or metal, or other suitable substance, and the brackets may be of
porcelain or wood, with metal screws, of metal only, or other suitable substance.
As modifications, the brackets may be fitted with springs which will serve to
keep the rods tight, or one pair of rods (say the vertical rods) may be made to
press against and be held up by the other pair (say the horizontal rods) of rods ;
and if tubes are used internal springs may be employed in one or both pairs to
keep the rods or tubes tight; by this arrangement the form of the brackets would
be simplified.