A New Window Blind Roller.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1895
A New Window Blind Roller.
JANE LOUISA BOLTON wife of Robert Fitzroy Bolton of 100 High Road
Chiswick Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention is designed to obviate the use of tacks screws or nails in attaching
a window blind to a window blind roller. My invention is described as follows.
In a window blind roller of any material a hole is bored or otherwise cut through
from end to end, and from the outside of the roller along the whole length of it a
slit is cut up to the hole bored or cut through the roller. The slit must be of
smaller diameter than the bored hole. A rod of wood is required a little shorter
than the roller, which fits easily in the bored hole like ramrod in a rifle barrel but
which is too large to fall through the slit when the slit is undermost. To apply
the invention the end of a window blind is folded so as to form a loop and sewn or
otherwise fastened to the remainder of the blind. The loop should be large enough
to allow the rod to be easily inserted or withdrawn. The rod being inserted in the
loop and passed through the required length is then inserted in the bored hole with
the blind hanging through the slit. The rod and blind are then passed along the
roller and the ends of the roller covered with metal fittings in the usual way.
When the roller is rolled up the blind is carried round it and vice-versa.
The drawing marked 1 shows the rod in the act of being inserted in the bored
hole. H. H is the slit before mentioned. E. D & B are fittings for the end of the
roller. I do not claim the fittings E & D. B as part of my Patent. In the
drawing No. 2. X represents a rod B. B an outer brass cap or fitting for the end
of the roller. H. K is the under brass cap or fitting. The figure C. C shews the
brass cap attached to the roller and D shows the end of the rod which has
been slipped into the bored hole. The rod in this instance is shewn as having been
passed through the loop of the blind which has been carried upon the rod into the
bored hole. The side view of the window blind as it hangs from the rod inside the
roller is shown by Y. The Figure V. V is a section of the bored roller shewing
the rod partly inserted shewing through the slit. The Figure F in the drawing
No. 3 shews the window blind hanging from the roller. I also claim to make the
roller in sections as shewn in the drawing No. 4. On account of the similiarity of
my invention to a rifle with a ramrod in the barrel I have designated my invention
the "rifle window blind!"
There are methods other than those shown on the accompanying drawings by
which the principle of a slide rod in a hollow roller can be applied for the purpose
of suspending a window blind. I do not bind myself exclusively to the form given
in the drawings.
I claim as my invention a bored or hollow roller with a slit from the outside of
the roller extending the length of the roller & carried inwards until it meets with
the bored hole or hollow in the roller such slit to be smaller than the bored hole or
hollow. In combination with the roller so prepared I use a slide rod which can be.
easily inserted into the bored hole or hollow yet too large to fall out of the slit and
to the slide rod is attached (preferably by means of a loop) the window blind as
already described the rod then being passed into the borod hole or hollow and the
blind hanging through the slit.
Dated 10th dow of Mor 10ni
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page_text: I JANE LOUISA BOLTON wife of Robert Fitzroy Bolton formerly of 100 High
Road, Chiswick but now of 67 Shaftesbury Road, Ravenscourt Park, 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:-
My invention is designed to obviate the use of tacks screws or nails in attaching a
window blind to a window blind roller.
My invention is described as follows:-In a window roller of any material a hole
is bored or otherwise cut through from end to end and from the outside of the
roller, along the whole length of it a slit is cut up to the hole bored or cat through
the roller. The slit must be of smaller diameter than the bored hole. A rod of
wood or other suitable material is required a little shorter than the roller which
fits easily in the bored hole like a ramrod in a rifle barrel but which is too large
to fall through the slit. To apply the invention the end of a window blind is
folded so as to form a loop & sewn or otherwise fastened to the remainder of the
blind. The loop should be large enough to allow the rod to be easily inserted or
withdrawn. The rod being inserted in the loop is then inserted in the bored hole
with the blind banging through the slit. The rod and blind are then passed along
the roller & the ends of the roller covered with metal fittings in the usual way.
When the roller is wound up the blind is carried round it & vice versa. The drawing
marked 1 filed with my Provisional Specification shews the rod in the act of being
inserted in the bored hole. H. H..is the slit before mentioned. E. D & B are
fittings for the ends of the roller.
In the drawing
I do not claim the fittings E & D. B as part of my Patent.
No. 2 filed with my Provisional Specification X represents a rod B. B an outer
brass cap or fitting for the end of the roller. H. K is the under brass cap or
fitting. The figure C. C. shews the brass cap attached to the roller & D shews
the end of the rud which has been slipped into the bored hole. The rod in this
instance is shewn as having been passed through the loop of the blind which has
been carried upon the rod into the bored hole.
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The side view of the window blind as it hangs from the rod inside the roller is
shewn by Y. The Figure V. V. is a section of the bored roller shewing the rod
partly inserted shewing through the slit. The Figure F in the drawing No. 3
filed with my Provisional Specification shews the window blind hanging from the
roller. The roller may also be made in sections as shewn in the drawing No. 4
filed with my Provisional Specification. On account of the similarity of my
invention to a rifle with a ramrod in the barrel I have designated my invention the
rifle window blind. There are methods other than those shewn in the drawings
filed with my Provisional Specification by which the principle of a slide rod in a
hollow roller can be applied for the purpose of suspending a window blind. I do
not bind myself exclusively to the form given in the drawings.
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 ;-
I claim as my invention a bored or hollow roller with a slit from the outside of
the roller extending the length of the roller & carried inwards until it meets with
the bored hole or hollow in the roller such slit to be smaller than the bored hole or
hollow. In combination with the roller so prepared I use a slide rod which can be
easily inserted in the bored hole or hollow yet too large to fall out of the slit and
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page_text: to the slide rod is attached (preferably by means of a loop) the window blind as
already described the rod then being passed into the bore or hollow and the blind
hanging through the slit.
Dated 15th day of ha 1905
JANE LOUISA BOLTON.