IMPROVEMENT IN RINGS & BRACKETS FOR BAY WINDOW POLES
Year: 1885

page_text: THOMAS JEFFERY (Upholsterer) Osnaburgh St. Regents Park HENRY LAYTON
(Cabinet Maker) 4 Harrington St. Hampstead Rd do hereby declare the nature of
our invention for THE IMPROVEMENT IN RINGS & BRACKETS FOR BAY WINDOW
POLES, to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to retain the Bay window pole in a level position
when fixed.
To accomplish this it is necessary to fix Brackets at the angle of the window, the
said Brackets being made with pins to fix in the poles. The Rings being made
with an opening so to pass the Brackets, for which purpose they are Laminated
viz: the wood glued up in three thicknesses before being cut out or turned, the
middle piece being the reverse way of the other two so as to give strength to the
rings which will bare the heaviest material used for curtains, the open rings being
associated by revolving collars on the brackets where they strike in passing over-
but they can be made in any suitable material.

page_text: Improvements in Rings and Brackets for Bay-window Poles.
We THOMAS JEFFERY, Upholsterer, of 44, Osnaburg Street, Regent's Park, and
HENRY LAYTON, Cabinet Maker, of 24 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, both
in the county of Middlesex 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 improvements in rings and brackets for bay-window
cornice poles the object of the invention being to retain the bay-window pole in
a level position when fixed, in a more secure manner than hitherto.
For this purpose we fix the brackets at the angles of the window, the said
brackets being provided with pins or their equivalents to allow of their being fixed
in or to the poles.
The rings are each made with an opening so as to allow of their passing the
brackets and, in order to give them the necessary strength when made of wood, we
find it advantageous to laminate them, that is to say, the wood from which they
are made is glued up in three thicknesses before being cut out or turned, the grain of
the middle piece being the reverse way of that of the other two; the rings will then
be strong enough to carry the weight of the heaviest material used for curtains;
the passage of the open rings over the brackets is assisted by revolving collars
placed on the brackets, where the rings strike in passing over them. The rings
can also be made of metal or other suitable material.
In order to enable our invention to be fully understood we will proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1,
represents a plan of a bay-window cornice having a pole provided with rings and
brackets constructed according to our invention; figure 2 is a tranverse section
drawn full size; figure 3 is a section on line A, B, of figure 2; figure 4 is a cross
section of one of the rings on line C, D of figure 2; figure 5 is a similar view to
figure 2 but shewing a modified form of bracket. Similar letters in all the figures
represent similar parts.
Referring to figures 1 to 4, F represents the architrave or cornice of a bay-
window, and 4, 4, are the brackets which we fix to the angles thereof for supporting
the centre part of the cornice pole D; A, figure 2, is the pin with which each of
the brackets 4 is provided, the said pin A passing into the pole D, and serving to
fix the bracket thereto; 3, 3, are the brackets at the ends of the cornice pole D,
and which are of ordinary construction; E, E, E, E, represent our improved rings
made with an opening B so as to allow of their passing the brackets 4, 4, when
required to bring the curtains towards or away from the centre of the window;
C, shews the screw eye which is usually provided in the leading rings E; and C¹, the
groove in the pole D for keeping the cord for operating the curtain in its proper
position; G is the usual eye by which the curtain is attached to the ring; H, I
and J, figure 4, represent the different thicknesses of wood of which the rings E
are preferably made (when wooden rings are employed) the grain of the two outer
thicknesses H and J being in the opposite direction to that of the centre one I, as
shewn, and the three thicknesses of wood being glued up together before the

page_text: rings E are cut or turned out of the same; 2, 2, 2, 2, figure 1 are the rings of
ordinary construction which are employed to suppport the curtains at each end of
the pole; a, figures 2 and 3 is the revolving collar on the part b, of the bracket 4,
where the open parts B of the rings E are liable to strike in passing over the same
the said collar by revolving assisting the said passage of the rings.
The arrangement shewn in figure 5, is the same as that herein before described
and illustrated in figures 1 to 3 except that instead of the end A of the bracket
being inserted in the pole D it partially encircles it and is fixed thereto by means
of a screw A¹; or the said end A may be let into a groove provided for it in the
cornice pole D.
By these improvements it will be obvious that the curtains being attached to the
rings E, E, and 2, 2, in the usual manner, the peculiar construction of the rings E
will allow of the curtain being drawn away from the centre of the pole D right to
the ends of the same, and at the same time the pole will be supported at the parts
where it is most necessary in order to give rigidity to the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. Constructing rings for bay-window cornice poles with an opening so as to
allow of them being passed over the supporting brackets of the said poles
substantially as herein before described and represented in the accompanying
drawing.
2. A bracket for supporting bay-window cornice poles having a revolving collar
such as a, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
represented in the accompanying drawing.
3. The use in combination with bay-window cornice poles of open rings, and
brackets with revolving collars, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as
hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying drawing.