or Ropes.
Year: 1886

page_text: or Ropes.
I WILLIAM BURLEY of Tower Chambers, London Wall, in the City of London,
Manufacturer's Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
These improvements refer to the so-called Young's patent holdfasts in which the
cord to be held taut is passed round a stem with a disc or plate or bar fixed in a
slanting position on its outer end. In order to increase the usefulness and improve
the appearance of this article I form or fit it with one or more hook parts or turned
up leaf or leaves on which the loop or bight of the cord can be hung thus preventing
it from being entangled with any pieces of furniture near it, or from being trampled
on, or the foot caught in it. I may make the aforesaid disc with openings to improve
the appearance and save metal. The aforesaid hook part or parts may be on the
body of the article, or on the slanting disc, or its stem. The screw or screws for
fastening the fitting may in the former case be one at the top and one between
two turned up leaves or holes at the bottom, or one at each side. I prefer to cut the
plate of the fitting out of sheet brass and to turn up the hook part by special tools.
Dated this 10th day of November 1886.
WILLIAM BURLEY.
By Jensen & Son,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holdfasts for Blind Cords and other Cords
or Ropes.
I, WILLIAM BURLEY of Tower Chambers, London Wall, in the City of London,
Manufacturer's Agent 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:—
These improvements refer to the so-called Young's patent hold-fasts in which the
cord to be held taut is passed round a stem with a disc or other equivalent such as a
plate or bar fixed in a slanting position on its outer end. In order to increase the
usefulness and improve the appearance of this article I form or fit it with one or more
hook parts or turned up leaf or leaves on which the loop or bight of the cord can be
hung thus preventing it from being entangled with any pieces of furniture near it or
from being trampled on or the foot caught in it. I may make the aforesaid disc with
openings to improve the appearance and save metal. The aforesaid hook part or
parts may be on the body of the article or on the slanting disc or its stem. The
screw or screws for fastening the fitting may in the former case be one at the top and
one between two turned up leaves or holes at the bottom or one at each side. I may
cut the plate of the fitting out of sheet brass, and turn up the hook part by special
tools.
And in order that my invention may be more easily understood I will describe the
same referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings on which are shewn some
modifications thereof.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of one of my improved cord holdfasts.
Figure 2 being a front elevation thereof with the hook part on the stem.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively side and front elevation of another modification of
my invention with the hook on the lower part of the body of the article.
Figures 5 and 6 represent respectively side and front elevation of a holdfast as
above described with the hook or leaf part on the disc.
Figures 7 and 8 shew another mode of applying the hook to the body of the
holdfast in side and front elevation respectively.
Figures 9 and 10 shew a holdfast in side and front elevation with two leaves.
Figures 11 and 12 shew in side and front elevation respectively a cord holdfast
with another form of body with a hook similar to that shewn in Figures 9 and 10.
Figure 13 represents a modification of the improved holdfast shewn in Figures 9
and 10. and
Figure 14 shews another modification in side elevation.
I form or fit the holdfast with one or more hook parts or turned up leaf or leaves a
on which the bight of the cord b, shown only in Figure 1 can be hung thus
preventing it from being entangled with any piece of furniture near it or from being
trampled on or the foot caught in it. The hook part or parts a may be stamped out
of the upper part of the body e, of the article and turned up as shown in Figures 7

page_text: and 8 or on the lower part of the body e as shown in Figures 3 and 4, 9 and 10 and also
in 11, 12 and 13. Or the aforesaid hook part a may be formed on the slanting disc c
as shown in Figures 5 and 6 or on the stem f as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
Referring to Figures 9 and 10 the screws g for fastening the fitting are one at the
top and one between the two turned up leaves or double hook a, a, at the bottom, or
as shown in Figures 11 and 12 the article may be secured to the wall, woodwork or
the like by two screws g, g one on each side of the disc c.
Figure 13 shows a modification of the holdfast in which the lower fixing screw g
is inserted and screwed up flush with the body, e through a hole, in the hook part a.
Figure 14 shows a holdfast with a bar c instead of a slanting disc provided with a
hook a thereon.
In the holdfasts illustrated by Figures 1 to 8 inclusive and by Figure 14 the mode
of fixing same will be apparent from the drawings and requires no additional
explanation.
It is evident that the forms of hooks or leaves a shown in Figures 3 and 4, 9 and
10 and 13 might be applied to or formed in one with the upper part of the body e of
the hold fast and those shown in Figures 7 and 8 might be formed in one with the
lower part of the body e or under some circumstances they might be formed at or
near the side of the slanting disc c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
:
First A cord holdfast consisting of a body part surmounted by a slanting stem
which is provided on the top with a disc in combination with a hook part substantially
as described.
Second-The improved constructions of holdfasts, as described and shown.
Dated this 10th day of August 1887.