Improvements in Flexible Joints for Portiere Rods, Bay Window Cornice Poles, or other Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1895—Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flexible Joints for Portiere Rods, Bay Window
Cornice Poles, or other Articles.
WILLIAM ALLMAN Manufacturer 45 Villa Road, Handsworth, in the County
of Stafford also of the Firm of Cope Allman and Co. Icknield Square Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists in making a flexible joint out of round or shaped steel or
other suitable metal having the appearance of a spiral spring, each end is fixed
inside or outside tube, rods, or fittings leaving a small portion of the flexible joint
free to act as a hinge or joint.
Where necessary I cover the spring joint with suitable fabric to improve the
appearance.
I also attach various kinds of end fixings to the flexible joint so that it may be
fixed to any other articles where a simple joint is required.
Dated this 27th day of October 1894.
WILLIAM ALLMAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flexible Joints for Portiere Rods, Bay Window
Cornice Poles, or other Articles.
I, WILLIAM ALLMAN, Manufacturer, of 45 Villa Road, Handsworth, in the
County of Stafford, also of the Firm of Cope, Allman & Company, of Icknield
Square, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, 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:-
This invention relates to the manner in which I construct flexible joints for
portiere rods, bay window cornice poles, and other like articles, for enabling the
jointed or connected portions of a rod, pole, or other article to be readily turned
or set at an angle with each other, either horizontally or vertically as may be
required.
In order that my invention and the method of carrying the same into effect may
be the more readily understood I append hereunto one sheet of explanatory
drawings to be hereinafter referred to."
Figure 1 represents a single joint such as I employ for tubular portiere rods and
other like articles.
Figure 2 is a plan of a cornice pole or tube in five parts, hinged or connected
together by my flexible joints.
Figure is a plan of the five part cornice pole as set for attachment to a bay
window cornice.
Figure 4 illustrates the application of my improved joint to solid wood cornice
or other poles, Figure 5 being au enlarged detail view of the joint as employed for
this purpose.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.

page_text: I make the flexible joint A preferably from brass or other wire of a circular
or other suitable section, which I twist of form to the configuration of a spiral
spring. I fix the ends of the spring in or upon the adjacent ends of the tubes B
of the portiere rod or cornice pole as shown at Figures 1, 2 and 3.
The spring-
like connection A thus forms a flexible joint or hinge permitting the tubes B to be
freely turned or inclined either in a vertical or horizontal direction, as may be
required, and as illustrated at Figure 3.
In the application of my improved joints to solid wood cornice or other poles,
as illustrated at Figure 4, I attach the ends of the flexible joint or spring A to
the heads or flanges of wood screws as shown in the detail view Figure 5.
1 sometimes cover the spring joint with a suitable material in order to improve
the appearance of the pole or rod, and I attach varying kinds of end fittings to
the joint in order that it may be readily fitted to the required article.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1. The improved method of jointing a portiere rod, cornice pole, or other
article, substantially as herein described.
2. The use of a spiral spring or like connection for forming a flexible joint
between two parts of a portiere rod, cornice pole, or other article, substantially as
herein before described, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of August 1895.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.