Improvements in Fixing the Brackets of Portière or Door Curtain Rods.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fixing the Brackets of Portière or Door
Curtain Rods.
ARTHUR GEORGE TONKS, Secretary and Director of Tonks Limited, of
Moseley Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In portière rods of various constructions the rod carrying the curtain is supported
by two brackets, one fixed on the door near its opening or unhinged edge and the
other to the door frame. These brackets are generally fixed permanently by
screws. When it is not required to use the door curtain, as for example in the
summer, the curtain and its supporting rod are removed, but the fixed brackets
remaining give an unsightly appearance to the door and door frame.
The object of my invention is to facilitate the removal of the said brackets when
they are no longer required and thus to remove the unsightliness referred to.
In fixing the said brackets according to my invention I make the lower end of
the bracket plane or flat and near the top of the said lower part I make a counter-
sunk hole for an attaching screw to pass through. Near the bottom of the said
lower part and on its inner face I fix a pin or stud. In the door or door frame and
at that part where the bracket is to be fixed, I insert a plate of about the size of
the lower part of the bracket. This plate is fixed by screws and is flush with the
door or door frame. The said plate has two holes at the same distance apart as the
hole and stud at the lower part of the bracket. The lower hole in the said plate is
plane and in fixing the bracket receives the stud on the lower part of the bracket.
The other hole in the plate is screwed and in fixing the bracket the fixing screw is
passed through the hole in the lower part of the bracket and is engaged with and
driven home in the screwed hole in the said plate. The bracket is thus fixed by a
single screw engaging not in the wood of the door or door frame but in the screwed
hole in the plate. When it is wished to remove the bracket the said screw is with-
drawn when the bracket can be removed from the said plate and there is left only
the small flush plate to which the bracket had been fixed.
Where great strength is required a second fixing screw may be employed in
place of the pin or stud described in which case both the holes in the plate are
screwed.
Or I fix on the inner face of the lower part of the bracket, two necked studs one
above the other and make in the plate, let flush into the door or door frame, slots
the tops of which are sufficiently large to permit the heads of the studs to be passed
through them. The studs being passed into the tops of the slots and the bracket
depressed the heads of the studs engage in the slots and the bracket is fixed. Or
instead of headed studs hooked studs may be used with like effect in which case the
plate has plane slots.
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1000
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fixing the Brackets of Portière or Door
Curtain Rods.
I, ARTHUR GEORGE TONKS, Secretary and Director of Tonks Limited, of
Moseley Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
In portière rods of various constructions the rod carrying the curtain is supported
by two brackets, one fixed on the door near its opening or unhinged edge and the
other to the door frame. These brackets are generally fixed permanently by
screws. When it is not required to use the door curtain, as for example in the
summer, the curtain and its supporting rod are removed, but the fixed brackets
remaining give an unsightly appearance to the door and door frame.
The object of my invention is to facilitate the removal of the said brackets when
they are no longer required and thus to remove the unsightliness referred to.
In fixing the said brackets according to my invention I make the lower end of
the bracket plane or flat and near the top of the said lower part I make a counter-
sunk hole for an attaching screw to pass through. Near the bottom of the said
lower part and on its inner face I fix a pin or stud. In the door or door frame and
at that part where the bracket is to be fixed, I insert a plate of about the size of
the lower part of the bracket. This plate is fixed by screws and is flush with the
door or door frame. The said plate has two holes at the same distance apart as the
hole and stud at the lower part of the bracket. The lower hole in the said plate is
plain and in fixing the bracket receives the stud on the lower part of the bracket.
The other hole in the plate is screwed and in fixing the bracket the fixing screw is
passed through the hole in the lower part of the bracket and is cugaged with and
driven home in the screwed hole in the said plate. The bracket is thus fixed by a
single screw engaging not in the wood of the door or door frame but in the screwed
hole in the plate. When it is wished to remove the bracket the said screw is
withdrawn when the bracket can be removed from the said plate and there is left
only the small flush plate to which the bracket had been fixed.
Where great
strength is required a second fixing screw may be employed in place of the pin or
stud described, in which case both the holes in the plate are screwed.
Or I fix on the inner face of the lower part of the bracket, two necked studs one
above the other and make in the plate, let flush into the door or door frame, slots
the tops of which are sufficiently large to permit the heads of the studs to be passed
through them. The studs being passed into the tops of the slots and the bracket
depressed the heads of the studs engage in the slots and the bracket is fixed. Or
instead of headed studs, hooked studs may be used with like effect in which case
the plate has plain slots.
Figures 1 and 2, of the accompanying drawings, represent front and side
elevations respectively, the latter partly in vertical section, of the supporting
bracket of a
portière rod, the said bracket being made and fixed to the door
according to one of the arrangements of my invention;
Figure 3 represents in back elevation a portion of the said bracket and its flush
attaching plate and Figure 4 represents a portion of the bracket and Figure 5 the
flush attaching plate separately;
Figures 6 and 7 represent front and side elevations respectively, the latter partly
in vertical section, of the bracket fixed to the door frame and Figure 8 is a hori-
zontal section of the same taken on the line x, x Figure 6.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawings.
a is the bracket fixed to the door and b is the bracket fixed to the door frame,
the lower ends a², 62 of each bracket being flat. Near the top of the lower flat

page_text: part a, of each bracket is an unscrewed or plain hole and near the bottom
the said flat part and on its inner face is a pin or stud d (see Figure 4). In the
door and door frame f the bracket attaching plates 7 are inserted, the said plates
being fixed flush with the door and door frame by screws as represented. Each of
the said plates y has two holes in it marked respectively and i, the lower hole į
being plain or unscrewed for the reception of the pin or stud d on the bracket and
the upper hole being screwed internally for the reception of the attaching screw k
passed through the hole c in the upper part of the Hat end of the bracket. The
brackets on the door and door frame are thus fixed by the screw pins k, k engaging
in the screwed holes h, h in the flush attaching plates g, g.
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When it is wished to remove the brackets, the screws k, k are withdrawn when
the brackets are unfastened and can be removed from the flush plates g which are
permanently fixed to the door and door frame. The unsightly appearance to the
door and door frame which the permanently fixed brackets present when the
portière rod is removed is thereby avoided. Where greater security is required
in the fixing of the brackets, two attaching screws, similar to that marked k, may
be employed, the plain pin or stud d on the flush attaching plate being dispensed
with and replaced by a screwed hole similar to that marked h.
Figures 9 and 10 represent in side elevation, partly in section a door and door
frame bracket for a portière rod attached to the door and door frame according to
another arrangement of my invention; Figure 11 represents a horizontal section
taken on the line y, y Figure 9; Figure 12 represents in back and side elevation
the lower end of one of the said brackets detached;
Figure 13 represents in front elevation and vertical section the flush attaching
plate disconnected from the door ;
Figure 14 represents a back and side elevation of the bracket and Hush attaching
plate with the bracket in the act of being attached to the plate and
Figure 15 represents the same views as Figure 14 after the bracket has been
attached to the flush plate.
The lower end a², 2 of each bracket a, b in this arrangement carries at its back
two necked studs 1,7 and the flush attaching plates y, y fixed to the door e. and
door frame have longitudinal slots m, m made in them. With the back of the
plates 9, y and on either side the slots m, m, the heads of the necked studs I, I
engage, the tops m², m² of the said slots m, m being enlarged for the passage of the
heads of the studs into and out of the slots. It will be seen that the necks of the
studs 1, are of a size and shape proper to fit in the slots m in the flush attaching
plates. Figure 14 represents a portion of the lower end a² of the bracket a and
the flush attaching plate 9 when the heads of the necked studs 1, I have been
introduced into the enlarged parts m², m² of the slots m, m in the act of
attaching the bracket to the flush plate g and Figure 15 represents the same parts
after the bracket has been depressed and the necks of the necked studs l, have
been engaged with the back of the flush plate g and on either side of the slots in
the said plate (see Figure 11), and the bracket thereby attached to the flush plate
on the door or door frame (see Figures 9 and 10). By the depression of the
bracket for attaching it to the flush plate 9 the said flush plate is completely
concealed, the lower end of the bracket having the same external configuration as
the flush plate.
a,
Figures 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 represent an arrangement of my invention in
which hooks or hook studs p, p are formed on the lower inner ends of the parts a², 6ª
of the brackets 6 in place of necked studs. These hooks are passed through
holes 9,
in the flush attaching plates g, g and the brackets then depressed so as
to engage the said hooks with the backs of the flush plates. Figures 16 and 17
represent respectively the door and door frame brackets fixed to the flush plates
and Figure 18 represents the lower end of the door bracket after its hooks p, p
have been passed through the holes y, in the flush plates but before the bracket
has been depressed and its hooks engaged with the back of the plate; Figure 19
represents in back and side elevation the lower end of the bracket a and Figure 20

page_text: represents in front elevation and vertical section, the flush plate detached from the
door. From the foregoing description and by reference to the accompanying
drawings it will be understood that the brackets may after the removal of the
portière rod be readily detached from the door and door frame and the unsightliness
of the ordinary fixed brackets avoided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in fixing the brackets of portière or door curtain
rods;
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First. Forming on the lower end of the flat portion of each of the brackets
carried by the door and door frame, a pin or stud and in the upper part of the said
flat portion, a plain or unscrewed hole, and arranging on the door and door frame
a permanently fixed flush attaching plate having in it a plain hole for the reception
of the pin or stud carried by the bracket and a screwed hole corresponding in
position with the hole in the upper part of the plain flat portion of the bracket for
the reception of an attaching screw for firmly securing the bracket to the flush
plate on the door or door frame substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the accompanying drawings; also
the modification described in which the portière rod brackets are secured to the
flush attaching plates carried by the door and door frame by two screws.
Secondly. Fixing portière rod brackets to the flush attaching plates on the door
and door frame by means of necked studs at the backs of the lower flat ends of
the brackets engaged with slots of the kind described in the said flush attaching
plates, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14 and 15 of the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. Fixing portière rod brackets to the flush attaching plates on the door
and door frame by means of hooks or hook studs at the backs of the lower flat
portions of the brackets passing, through holes in and engaged with the backs of
the said flush attaching plates substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in Figures 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Third day of October 1893.
ARTHUR GEORGE TONKS.