A NEW OR IMPROVED EYE FOR HOLDING STAIR CARPET AND OTHER RODS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frank Kingston of No. 87 Albyn' Road Deptford in
the County of Kent for an invention of A NEW OR IMPROVED EYE FOR
HOLDING STAIR CARPET AND OTHER RODS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frank Kingston at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th April 1882.
FRANK KINGSTON of No 87 Albyn Road Deptford in the County of Kent
"A NEW OR IMPROVED EYE FOR HOLDING STAIR CARPET AND OTHER RODS
"
My invention relates to a construction of eyes for holding stair carpet and
other rods, such as to give simplicity and economy of manufacture, and great
facility in fixing or removing them. I will describe an eye according to my
invention suitable for holding the rod of a stair carpet in the angle contained
between the tread and the riser of a step. The eye has two limbs, one of these
extending a little way forward along the tread and the other extending a little
way up the riser, both of these limbs having their extremities bent a little
outwards and terminating in chisel edges. In fixing the eye it is only necessary
to press it into the angle so that the chisel edges of its limbs penetrate a little
into the wood. A direct pull such as the strain of the carpet will then fail to
dislodge it, but it may be readily removed by canting it to one side or the other
so as to disengage the edges of its limbs from the wood. A cheap and simple
mode of manufacturing such an eye is to bend a piece of wire or rod round a
mandril or pin so as to present a belical convolution round the pin with the two
ends of the wire or rod standing out at right angles to one another so as to
form the limbs, the extremities of which are bent a little outwards and sharpened
to chisel edges. The eye however may be made by casting stamping or otherwise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frank Kingston in the Great Seal Patont Office on the 19th October
1882.
FRANK KINGSTON of No 87 Albyn Road Deptford in the County of Kent
"A NEW OR IMPROVED EYE FOR HOLDING STAIR CARPET AND OTHER RODS
"
My invention relates to a construction of eyes for holding stair carpet and other
rods, such as to give simplicity and economy of manufacture, and great facility in
fixing or removing them. I will describe an eye according to my invention
suitable for holding the rod of a stair carpet in the angle contained between the
tread and the riser of a step: The eye has two limbs, one of these extending a
little way forward along the tread and the other extending a little way up the
riser, both of these limbs having their extremities bent a little outwards and
terminating in chisel edges. In fixing the eye it is only necessary to press it into
the angle so that the chisel edges of its limbs penetrate a little into the wood.
A-direct-pull-such as the strain of the carpet will then fail to dislodge it, but it
may be readily-removed by canting it, to one side or the other-so-as-to-disengage
the edges of its limbs from the wood. A cheap and simple modo of manufacturing
such an eye is to bend a piece of wire or rod round a mandril or pin so as to
present a helical convolution round the pin with the two ends of the wire or rod
standing out at right angles to one another so as to form the limbs, the extremities
of which are bent-a-little-outwards-and-sharpened to chisel edges. The eye
however may be made by casting, stamping or otherwise.
The accompanying drawings shew several forms of stair carpet-eyes according to
my invention. Figs. 1 and 2 are side views and Fig. 3 is a front view of an eye
made by bending a strip of metal to the form shewn. The strip may be made
with ornamental ends as shewn by Figs. 4 and 5, the projecting points or edges
for engaging in the wood being punched backwards from the metal of the strip.
Figs. 6, 7 and 8 shew the eye made by a helical twist of a strip of metal or of a
wire. In the form shewn by the side view Fig. 9 and front view Fig. 10 an
additional hold is provided by a taper piece a which may be cut obliquely from
the metal of the eye as indicated at a'. In this case it is preferred to make the
front edge b like a ratchet tooth abrupt on the one side and inclined on the other
as this gives facility for removing the eye when desired by turning it round the
point a as a centre in the direction allowed by the slope of b. The eye may be
made in two equal parts as shewn in the side view Fig. 11, the front view Fig. 12
and the plan Fig. 13, the two halves being placed side by side like the flaps of a
hinge and the stair rod being passed through their eyes like the pin of a hinge.
Obviously the proportions and forms of eyes according to my invention may be
varied to suit different circumstances and tastes, so long as they are provided with
projecting points or edges to engage in the wood as I have explained
Having thus described the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I claim:
The manufacture and use of eyes for holding carpet and other rods, fixed in
position by points or chisel edges projecting from their limbs, substantially as
herein described.
In Witness whereof I the said Frank Kingston have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord One