Improved Means for Fixing Stair-rods, Curtain-rods, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 29th Sept.. 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Fixing Stair-rods, Curtain-rods, and the like.
ALFRED HONORÉ BRICARD and LOUIS JULES BRICARD Manufacturers of
Ironmongery, of 39 Rue de Richelieu Paris do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the application of novel means for fixing rods to hold
carpets on stairs, it is equally applicable to rods for curtains and other rods or bars
which it may be required to remove instantaneously.
Our system has for its object to fix such bars rigidly without allowing them to
move or be displaced by accident but allowing the same to be readily removed and
refixed if required for say cleaning or other purposes.
This invention consists substantially in a spring locking arrangement for fixing
the rod and also special lock arrangements as hereinafter set forth. To make this
invention more readily understood its application to a stair rod is shown in the
accompanying drawing as an example :-
Fig. 1 shews our rod in elevation fixed on a stair.
Fig. 2 represents the same in plan.
Fig. 3 also a plan showing two arrangements of eyelets or staples fixing the rod.
Fig. 4 shews the locking of one end of the rod in section.
Fig. 5 shews the top and bottom views of one staple with spring locking device.
Fig. 6 shews a modification of our spring lock.
Fig. 7 shews the very simple arrangement serving to support and fix the rod
when this application is used.
Fig. 8 shews a modification in the arrangement of the locking device which
works by pulling the button in the direction of the arrow.
Fig. 9 shews the eye-bolt used in this arrangement.
Fig. 10 is a further modification and
Fig. 11 the arrangement for fixing this rod in this modification.
This rod a. .the shape size and material whereof may be any that are required, is
at each end provided with a shoulder or nose piece b. engaging with a staple c. fixed
in the angle of the stair.
One staple on each stair is provided with a spring lock d. bearing upon the
shoulder thus holding the rod in the staples each shoulder has a cover plate e. on
the orifice of the corresponding staple so as to close the same and prevent dust
entering.
It will be readily understood that the principle of this attachment may be
carried out equally well by making the shoulder or nose piece elastic as shewn in
Fig. 6.
In this case one end of the rod (or if desired both ends) may with the nose piece
slide on the body of the rod being always acted upon by a spring placed within the
rod itself. This arrangement with the movable nose piece allows a simple sleeve f.
to be used instead of the staples c above described, this sleeve being fixed. like an
ordinary eyebolt but preferably square in cross section.
To reduce as much as possible the space occupied by the rod it may be made
half round.
Dated this 29th day of December 1890.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Fixing Stair-rods, Curtain-rods, and the like.
We ALFRED HONORÉ BRICARD and LOUIS JULES BRICARD Manufacturers
of Ironmongery, both of 39, Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the application of novel means for fixing rods to hold
carpets on stairs, it is equally applicable to rods for curtains and other rods or bars
which it may be required to move instantaneously.
Our system has for its object to fix such bars rigidly without allowing them to
nove or be displaced by accident but allowing the same to be readily removed and
refixed if required for say cleaning or other purposes.
The invention consists substantially in a spring locking arrangement for fixing
the rod and also special lock arrangements as hereinafter set forth. To make this
invention more readily understood its application to a stair rod is shown in the
drawings accompanying our Provisional Specification as an example;
Fig. 1. shows our rod in elevation fixed on a stair.
Fig. 2. represents the same in plan.
Fig. 3. also a plan shewing two arrangements of eyelets or staples fixing the rod.
Fig. 4. shews the locking of one end of the rod in section.
Fig. 5. shews the top and bottom views of one staple with spring locking device.
Fig. 6. shews a modification of our spring lock.
Fig. 7. shews the very simple arrangement serving to support and fix the rod
when this application
used.
Fig. 8. shews a modification in the arrangement of the locking device which
works by pulling the button in the direction of the arrow.
Fig. 9. shews the eye-bolt used in this arrangement.
Fig. 10. is a further modification, and
Fig. 11. the arrangement for fixing this rod in this modification.
This rod a. the shape, size, and material whereof may be any that are required,
is at each end provided with a shoulder or nose piece b. engaging with a staple c.
fixed in the angle of the stair. One staple on each stair is provided with a spring
lock d. bearing upon the shoulder thus holding the rod in the staple, each shoulder
has a cover plate e. on the orifice of the corresponding staple so as to close the same
and prevent dust entering.
It will be readily understood that the principle of this attachment may be carried
out equally well by making the shoulder or nose piece clastic as shewn in Fig. 6.
In this case one end of the rod (or if desired both ends) may with the nose piece
slide on the body of the rod being always acted upon by a spring placed within the
rod itself. This arrangement with the moveable nose piece allows a simple sleeve f.
to be used instead of the staples c. above described, this sleeve being fixed like an
ordinary eyebolt but preferably square in cross section.
To reduce as much as possible the space occupied by the rod it may be made half
round.
And in order to explain our said invention more fully we will refer to the
illustrated drawings accompanying this Specification in which Fig. 11 shows in
section our improved stair rod and its fittings one end engaging with the outer
string board the other with the wall string board.
Fig. 12 shows such rods adapted and fixed for holding a carpet of the full width
of the stairs.
Fig. 13 shows the arrangement adopted for holding a carpet which covers only
the middle of the stairs.
The same letters indicate the same parts throughout the drawing.
The rod a has at its ends locks or bolts 6 61 one of which (b) is rigid and inserted

page_text: into the string board d, the other 6' in a sliding sleeve moves in the hollow part
of the rod and is acted upon by a spiral spring c.
The said spring pushes the ring bolt or piston 61 outward from the rod so as to
retain it in an aperture e provided in the skirting f. for its reception.
The same figure indicates by dotted lines the position of the parts when the rod
is to be removed or inserted.
The laying down or removal of a carpet is thus an extremely simple operation
and can be effected very quickly, the mechanism is moreover very solid and not
liable to get out of order.
If the carpet instead of occupying the full width of the stairs only covers the
centre portion thereof we use the same rods but apply to them rings g g (Fig. 13)
which we fix upon the rods by small screws or other suitable means so that the
distance between them exactly corresponds with the width of the carpet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
I. The means for attaching stair rods curtain rods and the like as shewn in the
accompanying drawings with reference to Figs. 11 and 12.
II. The use of moveable rings upon said rods allowing stair carpets to be firmly
fixed substantially as described and shown in Fig. 13 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 29th day of September 1891
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, W.C., Agents for Applicants.