IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORNICE POLE AND OTHER RINGS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Charles Taylor, of the Firm of Robert
Walter Winfield and Company, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Merchants and Manufacturers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORNICE POLE AND OTHER
RINGS."
Sealed the 26th October 1875, and dated the 26th May 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Charles Taylor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 26th May 1875.
I, HENRY CHARLES TAYLOR, of the Firm of Robert Walter Winfield
and Company, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchants
and Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORNICE POLE AND OTHER RINGS,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
the manufacture of cornice pole and other rings, the object of my said
improvements being to cheapen the manufacture of the said rings, as
well as to give an ornamental appearance to the said rings.

page_text: In manufacturing the said rings according to my Invention I make
by the ordinary drawing process a trough plate or half tube having
parallel edges, the said trough plate or half tube having in cross section
a nearly semicircular or semi-elliptical figure. I cut the said trough
plate or half tube into lengths, and I bend each of the said lengths into
an annular or ring-like figure, the convex side of the trough plate or
half tube being turned inwards and forming the inside of the ring. The
opposite ends of the ring-like pieces are next joined by brazing in the
ordinary way. There is thus produced a ring, the inside of which is
convex, and the outside hollow or concave, the outside constituting an
annular trough or channel. When the rings are used as cornice pole
rings the roundness or convexity of their inner sides facilitates their
running or sliding on the cornice pole.
Instead of making the rings from lengths of trough plates or half
tubes bent and brazed as described the said rings may be made from flat
rings of sheet metal raised into the figure described by dies and pressure.
When the said rings are made by dies and pressure no brazing is
required.
The parallel edges of the rings having the trough or semicircular or
semi-elliptical figure in cross section herein described may be left of their
original shape, or they may be turned inwards and rounded so as to form
parallel flanges to the edges of the rings.
Rings made as described may either be used plain, that is, without
being ornamented externally, or they may be ornamented externally by
applying and fixing plain or ornamental bands or strips of metal or coils
of wire or other ornamental parts to the troughs or channels.
The plain or ornamental bands, strips, or wire coils may be fixed in
the troughs or channels of the rings by brazing or otherwise fixing
them, but when the rings are to be used as cornice pole rings the eyes
by which the curtain is fastened to the rings may be used for attaching å
the bands, strips, or wire coils to the troughs or channel parts of the
rings, the stems of the eyes being passed through the overlapping ends.
of the bands, strips, or wire coils.
The bands, strips, or other ornamental parts fixed in the troughs or
channels of the rings may be colored. Incanered. OP otherwise £

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Charles Taylor in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
CHARLES TAYLOR, of the Firm of Robert Walter Winfield and Company,
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchants and Manufac
turers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Charles Taylor, Her special
license that I, the said Henry Charles Taylor, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Charles
Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there.
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise,' and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORNICE POLE AND OTHER RINGS,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Charles
Taylor, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Charles Taylor, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
O same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-.
My Invention consists of the improvements hercin-after described in
the manufacture of cornice pole and other rings, the object of my said
improvements being to cheapen the manufacture of the said rings, as
5 well as to give an ornamental appearance to the said rings. ›

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In manufacturing the said rings according to my Invention I make
by the ordinary drawing process a trough plate or half tube having
parallel edges, the said trough plate or half tube having in cross section
a nearly semicircular or semi-elliptical figure. I cut the said trough
plate or half tube into lengths, and bend each of the said lengths into
an annular or ring-like figure, the convex side of the trough plate or
half tube being turned inwards, and forming the inside of the ring. Tho
opposite ends of the ring-like pieces aro next joined by brazing in the
ordinary way. There is thus produced a ring, the inside of which is
convex, and the outside hollow or concave, the outside constituting an 1
annular trough or channel. When the rings are used as cornice pole
rings the roundness or convexity of their inner sides facilitates their
running or sliding on the cornice pole.
Instead of making the rings from lengths of trough plates or half
tubes bent and brazed as described the said rings may be made from flat
rings of sheet metal raised into the figure described by dies and pressure.
When the said rings are made by dies and pressure no brazing is
required.
The parallel edges of the rings having the trough or semicircular or
semi-elliptical figure in cross section herein described may be left of 2
their original shape, or they may be turned inwards and rounded, so as
to form parallel flanges to the edges of the rings.
Rings made as described may either be used plain, that is, without
being ornamented externally, or they may be ornamented externally by
applying and fixing plain or ornamental bands or strips of metal or coils 2
of wire or other ornamental parts to the troughs or channels.
The plain or ornamental bands, strips, or wire coils may be fixed in
the troughs or channels of the rings by brazing or otherwise fixing them,
but when the rings are to be used as cornice pole rings the eyes by
which the curtain is fastened to the rings may be used for attaching the 3
bands, strips, or wire coils to the troughs or channel parts of the rings,
'the stems of the eyes being passed through the overlapping ends of the
bands, strips, or wire coils, or the ornament of the ring may be made in
one piece with or solid to the ring.
The bands, strips, or other ornamental parts fixed in or forming the 30
troughs or channels of the rings may be coloured, lacquered, or otherwiso
ornamented

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Having now explained the nature of my Invention I will describe
with reference to the accompanying Drawings the manner in which the
same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and cross section a piece of the
trough plate or half tube which I use in making rings according to my
Invention; and Figure 2 represents in perspective and cross section a
ring made by taking a length of the trough plate or half tube, Figure 1,
and bending or winding it on a chuck or mandril into an annular figure,
and joining the opposite ends by brazing or rivetting. By an examina-
tion of Figure 2 it will be seen that the inside of the ring thus made is
convex, and the outside hollow or concave, the said concave outer sido
of the ring forming an annular trough or channel marked a.
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Figure 8 represents in elevation and cross section a trough plate or
half tube which I use when the rings are required to possess parallel
flanges, the said parallel flanges being formed by bending the parts b, b,
of the trough plate after it has been shaped into a ring towards the
inside of the said ring, and at the same time rounding tho said parts b, b.
A ring made from the trough plate, Figure 3, is represented in Figure 4,
the parallel flanges being marked b, b.
For the purpose of ornamenting the rings externally I apply and
attach thereto ornamental bands or strips of the kinds illustrated in
Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, but I do not limit myself to these particular
patterns.
Figure 6 represents the ornamental band or strip c, Figure 5, applied
to the trough plate; and Figure 4, the same applied and fixed to the
trough or channel of the ring. The position of the ornamental band or
strip c in the trough or channel of the ring is best seen in the sections.
The ornamental metallic bands or strip c may be fixed in the troughs of
the rings by brazing or soldering, or when the rings are to be used as
cornice pole rings the ornamental bands or strips may be fixed by the
eyes of the said rings, as illustrated in Figure 10, where d is the curtain
eye, the stem of which is passed through the overlapping ends of the
ornamental band or strip c placed in the trough of the ring.
Figure 11 represents in perspective and cross section a ring orna-
mented by applying to and fixing in the trough of the ring an
ornamantal metallic coil e, the said coil lying in the bottom of the

page_text: trough, as seen in the cross section; Figure 7 represents in elevation
and cross section the trough plate and ornamental coil e, from which
the ring, Figure 11, is made.
Instead of ornamenting the rings made according to my Invention by
the fixing thereto of separate ornamental strips or bands the trough strip 5
itself may be ornamented before it is bent or wound into a ring. In
this case I form by stamping a strip or plate of the figure represented in
Figure 12, the said strip or plate having along its middle a raised
ornamental band f, and by a drawing operation I give the strip or plate
the form represented in Figure 13. The ornamented trough plate thus 1
made is cut into lengths, and bent into rings having the shape repre-
sented in section in Figure 14, the parts 9, 9, of the strip forming the
rounded parallel flanges g, g, of the finished ring, Figure 14. A ring is
thus produced having along the middle of its trough an ornamental
band f made solid to or in one piece with the ring; or instead of having a 1
continuous ornamental band or pattern around the outside of the ring one-
half only of the ring may be ornamented, the other half being left plain,
the ornamented parts of the rings when used for cornice pole rings being
arranged on the pole so as to present the ornamented side to view. A
ring of the kind last described is represented in elevation in Figures 15
and 16, the elevation, Figure 15, representing the ornamented side, and
the, elevation, Figure 16, the plain side of the ring.
Rings of the kind represented in Figures 15 and 16 may be made
either by applying and fixing separate ornamental strips or bands in the
troughs of the plain rings, as herein-before described, or by using strips:
or plates formed by stamping, having alternate plain parts and
ornamented parts, the lengths cut from the said strips or plates having
one half plain, and the other half ornamented, so that when bent into
rings the rings formed have one half plain, and the other half
ornamented.
When the rings are made from flat blanks of metal instead of from
trough plates I use ring-like blanks of the kind represented in Figure 17,
and by means of dies and pressure raise the said ring-like blanks into
the form represented in Figure 2, or fashion the said ring-like blanks
into rings by spinning in a lathc.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do

page_text: not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention, but I claim as my Invention,―
The improvements in the manufacture of cornice pole and other rings
herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings,
that is to say, making the said rings from lengths of trough-shaped
plates or half tubes, or from flat ring-like blanks in the manner described
and illustrated, the inside of the said rings being convex and the outside
hollow or concave, and ornamenting the said rings when required by
applying to and fixing in the annular troughs or channels of the rings
plain or ornamental bands or strips of metal or coils of wire or other
ornamental parts, substantially as described and illustrated.
Also making ornamental rings. by ornamenting the trough-shaped
plates or half tubes before they are made into rings, substantially as
3 described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Charles Taylor, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Sixteenth day of November, in
the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
HENRY CHARLES TAYLOR.. (L.S.)