Improvements in and relating to Cornice Pole Rings and Curtain Rings.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application; 16th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cornice Pole Rings and Curtain
Rings.
I ARTHUR BERNARD REEVES of 73 Saint Peter's Road Handsworth in the
County of Stafford Brass-founder do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly describel and
ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This invention has for its object the production of rings suitable for use as
cornice pole-rings, or curtain-rings, such as are provided to receive the hook of &
curtain pin as a means of suspending curtains to the curtain-rings or cornice
pole-rings.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my invention is carried out.
Fig. 1 represents a front view of a ring out of which my improved flange-ring
can be bent, the dotted lines representing the way in which the ends of the ring
can be bent outwards to form the flanges.
Fig. 2 represents a plan of the underside of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 represents an enlarged broken off view of the lower part of a ring similar
to Fig. 1 with the ends of the ring bent into the required position to form the
flanges, the dotted lines show the ends of the ring before they are turned outwards
to form the flanges.
Fig. 4 represents an enlarged sectional view of the bottom part of my improved
flanged ring, showing the flanges secured together, the burr of one flange passing
through the central hole of other flange to form an eyelet.
Fig. 5 represents a view similar to Fig. 4 excepting that the holes in both
flanges are of equal diameter and the flanges are secured together by means of a
separate eyelet.
Fig. 6 represents a front view of improved flanged ring not enlarged.
Fig. 7 represents an enlarged broken-off view of Fig. 3 on the line A. B, showing
the face of the flange.
Fig. 8 represents an end view of Fig. 4.
Fig. 9 represents a view similar to Fig. 5 excepting that the ends of the ring are
in a tightened up position.
In carrying out my invention I provide a strip of bangle-metal drawn in the
usual shape used for making curtain rings, I next turn down the ends as shown in
the dotted lines of Fig. 1 and so form two flanges.
Under the first modification, the holes in the flanges would vary in diameter.
The flange a being pierced with a convenient sized hole and the piercing burred
outwards, and the flange b pierced with a hole sufficiently large to receive the
outer periphery of the barrel formed by the burr of fange a the burr or
barrel of the flange a would be passed through the piercing in the flange b and the
two flanges compressed together closely by means of an eyeletting punch or
equivalent tool, thus producing an eye-piece out of the ring in contradistinction to
the old method of fastening a separate eye-piece to a ring.
By a second modification of my invention, I proceed in a precisely similar
manner to that hereinbefore described in relation to the first modification
excepting that each flange would be pierced with an eyelet hole and a separate
eyelet would he passed through both flanges and compressed together by the

page_text: ordinary method of flattening the protruding end of an eyelet, as shown at
Figures 5 and 9.
The division shewn at the butt ends of ring in enlarged views 4 and 5 would not
be carried out in the finished article, a close butt joint being made as shown at
Fig. 9.
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
1st. The making of the eye-piece of a cornice-pole ring or a curtain-ring out of
the same material from which the ring is formed as illustrated and described.
2nd. The fastening together of the eye-piece flanges of a cornice pole ring or a
curtain-ring by burring outwards the centre of one flange and passing the burr or
barrel through a hole in the other flange as illustrated and described in relation to
Figure 4.
3rd. The fastening together of the eye-piece-flanges of a cornice pole ring or a
curtain ring by passing a separate eyelet through the two flanges as illustrated and
described in relation to Figures 5 and 9.
A. W. TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, 67 Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.