Improved Means for Securing Curtain Supports and the like Objects to Walls..
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Curtain Supports and the like
Objects to Walls..
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I GUSTAV FUHRER of No. 33 Wredestrasse, Ludwigshafen on the Rhine,
Germany, Furniture Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
aud in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in aud by the following statement :-
My said invention relates to improved means for securing curtain supports and
the like to walls.
By the frequent withdrawal and re-insertion of the pegs or nails of curtain
supports the wall and its covering is damaged and the pegs or nails no longer hold.
According to my said invention I apply to the wall a socket and to the curtain
support a hooked sorew such as hereinafter described. These while enabling the
support to be easily and quickly applied and removed provide a secure and lasting
hold.
In the accompanying drawings which illustrate my said invention and to which
reference is hereinafter made
Fig. 1 is a front view of the wall socket.
Fig. 2 is a separate view of the hooked screw.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a curtain holder or rosette when secured in position
in the socket.
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the wall socket.
Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the wall socket.
The socket a is hollowed out as shown. The front part a' has a key hole like
aperture c giving access to the chamber a' in which is a projection or catch e. For
ordinary walls the socket is cast in one piece with a stalk b which forms a wall bolt.
The screw which is booked at the end is screwed so far into the curtain holder g
as to leave a space between the end of the curtain holder and the hook corre-
sponding to about the thickness of the part a' of the socket. The hook is then
pushed through the aperture of the socket (which is secured in or to the wall)
and rotated until it takes against the projection e which prevents any further
rotation of the screw. The rotation of the curtain holder itself is continued with
the result that tho screw penetrates further into the part 9 and the latter is pulled
so tight to the socket as to have a perfectly safe hold. To remove the curtain
holder it is simply turned in the contrary direction until the hook comes in line
with the aperture c when the support is withdrawn. The capsules with their wall
bolts are built or cemented in at any desired places in the wall.
In the case of wooden walls or partitions the wall bolt b is dispensed with and
lugs ii indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 are cast on the socket and provided with
scrow holes.
The sockets need only be applied ouce to the walls and thus the walls and
hangings aro spared from ill treatment.
Although for illustration my said invention is explained in its application to a
curtain rosette it is to be understood that other similar objects may be applied in a
like manuer.
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:-
The hereinbefore described means for securing curtain holders (and the like

page_text: objects) to walls consisting of a hollowed socket a (provided with means for
securing the same in or to the wall) having a keyhole like aperture can internal
projection or catch e and a hooked screw substantially as set forth and shown in
the accompanying drawings
Dated this 24th day of August 1896.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70 Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.