An Improvement in the Construction of Blind Rollers, and in Securing the Fabrics thereto.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1896-Accepted, 3rd July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Construction of Blind Rollers, and in
Securing the Fabrics thereto.
ALBERT HENRY PENNELL No. 1 Park Street Horsham, in the County of
Sussex, Sculptor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:--
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My invention has for its object an improvement in the construction of blind
rollers, and in the securing of fabrics thereto. In the blind roller, which may be
of any section, I provide a grove of sufficient width and depth to hold and conceal
a spring or a number of springs of any suitable section. In the top of the fabric
such as a blind or curtain, I provide a small rod of wood or other suitable substance
sewn or otherwise attached to the fabric. In order to fix the fabric to the roller
the covered rod, which is attached to the fabric as described is pressed between
the springs, after the passage of which the ends of the springs close firmly
beneath the rod holding the same thereby the fabric in position the roller can then
be turned to draw up or lower the fabric in the usual manner.
To detach the blind for cleaning or other purposes it is simply to open the spring,
and the small rod will detach itself from the roller. The roller may also be made
of a hollow curved steel rod so as to form a spring of itself.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1895.
ALBT. HY. PENNELL,
1 Park Street, Horsham, Sussex.
An Improvement in the Construction of Blind Rollers, and in
Securing the Fabrics thereto.
ALBERT HENRY PENNELL, Sculptor, Tattendon Road Horley, Surrey late of
No. 1 Park Street Horsham Sussex 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:-
In the blind curtain or other roller (C) which may be of any suitable section
I provide a groove (F) of sufficient width and depth to hold and conceal a
spring (D) or a number of spring's of any suitable section. In the top of the
fabric (A) such as a blind or curtain, I provide a small rod (E) of wood or any
suitable substance, sewn or otherwise attached to the fabric. In order to fix the
fabric to the roller, the covered rod which is attached to the fabric as described is
pressed between the spring's after the passage of which the ends of the spring's
again close firmly beneath the rod holding the same thereby, and the fabric in
position. The roller can then be turned to draw up or lower the fabric in the usual
manner. To detach the blind or curtain for cleaning or other purposes it is simply
to open the spring and the small rod will detach itself from the roller.
The fabrics may be attached to the rod by means of tacks, cement, or any
other known means, and may be detached froin the roller, without removing the
roller from its supports.

page_text: 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 improved manufacture of blind, curtain, or other rollers, from which fabrics
are intended to be suspended by an arrangement of springs fixed in a groove worked
on the roller, which springs hold a fabric containing the rod in the manner
substantially set forth in the specifications and shewn by the drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1896.
ALBT. HENRY PENNELL,
Tattendon Road, Horley, Surrey, Sculptor.