Improvements in Means or Arrangements for Supporting Brackets.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1891
'Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Arrangements for Supporting Brackets.
I WILLIAM GATES of No. 43 Dacre Road Upton Manor in the County of
Essex Carpet Salesman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to brackets such as upholstery brackets furniture brackets
angle brackets and similar brackets and consists of the improvements hereinafter
described in means or arrangements for securing such brackets to or supporting
them against the surfaces of walls and other structures the object of my said
invention being to admit of ready removal of the brackets when applied to walls
and other structures.
According to my said invention I form recesses in the backs of the brackets and
provide for the application thereof to walls and the like by means of plates or
other appliances adapted to be screwed or otherwise secured to the structures to
which the brackets are to be applied which plates or appliances are of such form
that the recesses in the brackets inay be readily engaged therewith and disengaged
therefrom.
Dated the 17th day of September 1891.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Arrangements for Supporting Brackets.
I WILLIAM GATES of No. 43 Dacre Road Upton Manor in the County of
Essex Carpet Salesman 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 :-
My invention relates to brackets such as upholstery brackets furniture brackets
angle brackets and similar brackets and consists of the improvements hereinafter
described in means or arrangements for securing such brackets to or supporting
them against the surfaces of walls and other structures the object of my said invention
being to admit of ready removal of the brackets when applied to walls and other
structures.
According to my said invention I form recesses in the backs of the brackets and
provide for the application thereof to walls and the like by means of plates or
other appliances adapted to be screwed or otherwise secured to the structures to
which the brackets are to be applied which plates or appliances are of such form
that the recesses in the brackets may be readily engaged therewith and disengaged
therefrom.
I will further describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which the application of my said invention to metal brackets of two kinds is
Illustrated.
A method of applying my invention to a cast metal cornice pole bracket is
llustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the said drawings Figures 1 and 2 being
respectively a side view and a back view of a bracket of the said kind engaged
with a supporting plate. Figures 3 and 4 are sections of the same the said sections
being taken respectively on the line 2 Figure 2 and the line 1 Figure 1.
Referring to the said figures a is the bracket in the back of which a
longitudinal recess having undercut sides is formed and bis the supporting plate

page_text: the shape of the longer sides or edges of which plate are the counterpart of
that of the undercut sides of the recess in the back of the bracket in which the
plate bis engaged. In the said plate bare holes cc which admit of the said plate
being secured by screws or nails to. the structure to which the bracket is required
to be applied.
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In applying the bracket a to a wall or the like the plate bis first secured thereto
in the required position and the said bracket is then slidden downward over the
said plate so as to cause the recessed part of the bracket to be engaged with the
said plate as illustrated in the said Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
A convenient method of applying my invention to a window curtain band and
rod bracket formed of sheet metal is illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the
accompanying drawings Figures 5 and 6 being respectively a side view and a back
view of a bracket of the said kind engaged with a supporting plate. Figures 7 and 8
are sections of the same the said sections being taken respectively on the line 3
Figure 6 and the line 4 Figure 5.
d is the bracket and e is the supporting plate which is adapted to be secured
to a window in the manner herein before described with reference to the supporting
plate of the cornice pole bracket a. The longer sides or edges of the supporting
plate e (which may be of cast metal or sheet metal) are so formed as to engage
between the turned over parts of the back plate of the bracket d. All the parts of
the said bracket including those which admit of engagement thereof with the
plate e as required for the support of the said bracket are formed from a single
piece of sheet metal by appropriately cutting and bending it. The plate e is
secured where the bracket is required to be supported and the bracket d is connected
to the said plate as hereinbefore described with reference to the bracket and
supporting plate illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the drawing.
Where desirable two or more supporting appliances may be used for securing &
single bracket. Thus in the case of a large bracket two supporting appliances may
be used one for the upper part of the bracket to engage with and the other for the
lower part of the bracket to engage with.
In the drawing herein before referred to I have shown the supporting appliance
as consisting in each case of a flat plate having inclined sides or edges and I
have shown the bracket in each case as having a recess formed in the back of a
shape suitable to engage with the inclined sides of the said plate when the bracket
is slidden lengthwise over it. I would however observe that my said invention is
not limited to a supporting appliance of the identical form shown nor to the form
shown of the parts of the brackets which engage with the supporting appliances as
the said details may be varied without departing from the nature of my invention
as hereinbefore stated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed I declare that
what I claim is :-
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Means or arrangements for supporting brackets consisting of recesses in the backs
of the brackets and appliances adapted to be engaged with the said recesses and to
be secured to structures to which the brackets are required to be connected sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated the Sixteenth day of May 1809
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.