A Connection or Clip for Securing Blinds, Maps, and other like Articles to Rollers.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Connection or Clip for Securing Blinds, Maps, and other like
Articles to Rollers.
I, SAMUEL JOSEPH ANSON, of Bordesley Green Road, in the City of Birmingham,
Foreman Tool Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to means for securing blinds, maps, and other like articles,
to be rolled up, to their rollers.
The usual method of attaching blinds to their rollers, is by small tacks, driven
through the inner end or edging of the blind, into the wood, or a strip of wood,
directed along the middle of the roller, if the same is a metal one.
My invention consists in an improved clip or clips, let in, or arranged upon
periphery of the roller.
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In carrying out one form of my invention, I take a curved attachment plate, with
ears directed from the underside of it; and to thom, I hinge a lever, whose outer and
underside end, is provided with prongs, which when shut down, take through the
material of the blind, and into coincident holes in the attachment plate; so that the
blind stuff is gripped botween the shut down arm, and the outside of the plate, as
aforesaid.
The inner and joint end of the arm, is formed with angular flats, against which,
the free end of a flat spring, takes its bearing, for the retaining of the arm in either
an open or closed position.
The spring, or spring tongue may be cut out and fashioned from attachment plate,
and so also may the cars, for carrying the joint of the arm, which constitutes the
grip of the appliance.
The arm and the attachment plate, are made to lie flush with the periphery of the
roller, when in use, and I prefer to employ, two three, or more, of the said clips
arranged at intermediate distances apart.
In the second form of my invention, instead of a jointed arm, I may employ a
spring arm, in the form of a spring tongue, with or without prongs, and cut from a
sheet metal attachment; or the attachment plate may if necessary be made to formi
in itself a spring clip, under which, the inner end of a blind to be attached to a
roller, is gripped.
Dated this 18th day of September 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Connection or Clip for Securing Blinds, Maps, and other like
Articles to Rollers.
1, SAMUEL JOSEPH ANSON, of Bordesley Green Road in the City of Birmingham,
Foreman Tool Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to clips or means for securing linen or stuff blinds, maps and
other like articles (to be rolled up) to their rollers.
The usual method of attaching blinds to their rollers, is by means of small tacks,
driven through the inner end.

page_text: By my invention the said tacks or nails are dispensed with, and a blind or the like
secured to its roller, by jointed or spring clips or holders.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I employ a curved and jointed lever-
plate, or arm with prongs upon its underside and with the inner end of the said lever,
jointed to an attachment plate, secured by small screws to the roller.
-The inner and joint end of the lever, is formed with flats, against which, the free
end of the spring, takes its bearing, for retaining the lever in its open or closed
positions.
Instead of a jointed lever or arm being employed, as the securing means, a spring
tongue may be employed instead.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in front elevation, a blind
roller, with a linen blind secured thereto, by jointed clips or holders, constructed and
affixed, according to my invention.
Figure 2 shows upon an enlarged scale, one of the said clips and a portion of the
blind and roller.
Figure 3 represents a cross section, on the dotted lines A. B figure 2; the clip is
shown closed, and the blind stuffs inner end secured, by prongs upon the underside
of a lever plate, which when down, takes circumferentially, the roller.
Figure 4 is a like section as figure 3, but with the lever plate open, while figure 5
shows a like view as figure 2, but with the lever or holding plate, open as in
figure 4.
Figure 6 represents an underside view of the clip, figure 7 a like underside view
as figure 6, but with the T end of the closing spring of the lever, broken away, to
show the angular parts of the joint. Figure 8 is a section, topside plan, and
underside plan, respectively, of the lever plate; figure 9 shows views of the spring
separately, and figure 10 also shows views of the attachment and carrier plate
separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of.
the drawings.
a is a lever plate, with prongs a², upon its underside, which are adapted to take
through the material or stuff. of a blind, and constitutes the means whereby the blind
is held or secured to the roller f. These prongs, which are made out of the metal of
the lever plate, have shoulders a³, upon which, the direct pull of the blind, when
secured, comes.
The inner end of the lever plato a, has ears or square shaped joint plates a', upon
the facets of which, the free end 6, of a closing or retaining spring b, takes, and
keeps the said plate in closed or open positions, when the said lever plate is opened or
closed.
Passing through the said plates a', and through bracket bearings e³, of an open
attachment plate e, is a joint pin d, upon which, the said lever plate, turns as a
centre.
The attachment plato, which is preferably sunken circumferentially, within the
roller, has piercings c, wherethrough the prongs a² of the lever plate a, pass, when
the inner ende, of a blind e, is secured between the top side of the attachment plate,
and the underside of the lever as aforesaid.
To secure a blind to a roller provided with two, three, or more clips, open outwardly
the levers, as in figures 4 and 5, then pass the blind evenly and longitudinally along
the roller, and when this is done, close the levers, when the prongs pierce the
material of the blind, and secure the same to the roller.
Figure 11 represents a spring clip, constructed according to another form of my
invention.
Figure 12 represents a transverse vertical section of the same, with the blind
secured.
a is a spring tongue or lever, with holding prongs a², formed out of, and directed
inwardly from its free end.
c is an attachment plate, secured to a roller, by small screws c², passed through
holes or piercings at the corners.

page_text: In connecting a blind to a roller, raise the spring tongue a, and pass the inner
edging of the blind thereunder, when the prongs, passing into the material, firmly
hold the same. The plate is preferably sunken within the roller, in order that the
blind stuff may lie evenly upon the surface.
Figure 13 represents another form of spring clip, constructed according to my
invention, in which the attachment plate is made in the form of a T end, instead of
surrounding the spring tongue.
The parts are marked with the same letters of reference as figures 11 and 12.
Instead of employing prongs, as the holding means, I may make the undersides of
the spring tongues, serrated, roughened, or inwardly indented, so that the blind stuff
is held by contact alone, and further, I may face the contact surfaces of the said
tongues with rubber, or I may corrugate or rib transversely the said tongues, which
take into corresponding grooves made within the roller, or an under plate.
The application of my invention to the securing of maps and like articles, to
rollers, differs in no essential respect, from its application to a blind roller.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
First A clip or holder for securing blinds, maps, and the like to rollers,
consisting of a jointed lever, or lever plate, with prongs, serrations, indentations, or
facings, upon its underside, substantially as described and set forth in figures 1 to 10.
Secondly -A clip or holder for blinds and like articles, consisting of a lever
plate, attachment plate, and spring, arranged, combined, and acting, substantially as
described and set forth in figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Thirdly-A spring tongue clip or holder, for securing blinds, maps, and the like,
to rollers, substantially as described and set forth in figures 11, 12, and 13.
Dated this Iron day of befo
SAMUEL JOSEPH ANSON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
SAMUEL JOSEPH ANSON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.