Improvements in the Manufacture of Grooved and other Window Brackets and their Sockets.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 7th Dec.. 1888
Improvements in the Manufacture of Grooved and other Window
Brackets and their Sockets.
1, GEORGE JAMES WILLIAMS of the firm of Williams Brothers and Company of
Pershore Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture, or production of grooved,
and other window brackets, and their sockets, which may be adjustable or fixed.
These said articles, consist essentially of the one part, of a projecting arm, with its
inner end pivoted to a bracket, or an upright bracket, whose lower end carries a pivot,
which takes into an eye upon one side, or upon the two opposite sides, of a raising
and lowering socket, (of the other part) which is usually adjustable upon an
upright rod.
The said brackets, and sockets, as ordinarily manufactured, are made in one piece,
by the process of casting.
My invention has for its object, the production of the said articles, from strip, and
sheet metal, in the ways, and by the process or combination of processes, as herein-
after described.
I will first describe my invention, in connection with a grooved bracket.
The projecting arm, which is jointed at its inner end, to a removable bracket as
aforesaid, cut out from strip metal, and the rack like teeth or grooves upon its top
edges, are cut out consecutively or collectively.
I prefer to make the grooves, or the gaps, semicircular at their lower parts, and of a
larger diameter, than the breadths of their entrances; so that in whatever inclination
the bracket may be disposed, the longitudinal rods, supported thereby, have always an
extended bearing.
In making the said arm supporting bracket, I cut out from sheet metal, a T shaped
blank, with longitudinal ears, upon its top edge; and on the said blank, being
folded about its middle, and subsequently shaped, the middle part forms the
barrel, through the middle of which, the shank of the pivot, passes, and is
rotated.

page_text: The opposite branched parts, form the forked bearing supports, through which a
fulcrum pin transversely passes, in jointing the inner end of the arm as aforesaid, to
the said supporting bracket.
The longitudinal ears are turned inwardly, and at right angles to the other part; so
that on the bearings for the arm, being presented parallel to each other, the ears come
together, and form a bridge, wherethrough the screw for adjusting the arm, passes.
This screw passes preferably vertically downwards, and with its lower end, extending
upon the extreme outer or short end of the said arm.
The socket I make from drawn or sheet metal, as follows-
I take a length of tubing, or a strip of sheet metal, bent up into a skelp, and I pass
the same longitudinally through a die or dies, whose eye or eyes, is or are made of the
cross section, or of a figure resembling the cross section of a socket to be made; that
is to say, a barrel like middle part, and with a side eye (or eyes).
This drawn metal section, is transversely divided into suitable lengths, and with
the front part drilled and wormed with a hole, through which the affixing screw
passes.
The said socket, when made from slicet metal, is preferably produced in longitudinal
halves, by cutting out and raising processes, and then subsequently joining. them
together, by soldering, brazing, or by other means.
Or I take a double cruciform shaped blank, which is doubled and fashioned into a
socket, with the socket eyes at its two opposite sides. The presented edges of the
doubled up blank, may be either soldered, or otherwise connected.
The socket, instead of having two socket eyes, it may have only one, or it may have
more than two, as may be desired.
In making a fixed socket, instead of an adjustable one, I cut out a cruciform shaped
blank, from sheet metal, and fashion the middle part thereof, into a barrel or
barrels, or a barrel eye or eyes, and with the wing parts shaped into attachment cars,
which are bent rearward, into a different plane, to that of the barrel, or eyo part or
parts.
The meeting edges of the blanks, when folded and turned up, may be connected
together, by teits on the one side, passing through piercings on the other side, and
with the former riveted.
Dand this Tein sighil
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page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Grooved and other Window
Brackets and their Sockets.
1, GEORGE JAMES WILLIAMS of the firm of Williams Brothers and Company of
Pershore Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to improvements in, and in the manufacture or production of
grooved and other window brackets, and their carrying sockets."
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents partly in elevation and partly in
vertical section, a window bracket and socket made according to my invention. It
will be seen that the arm of the said bracket, which is for the carrying of rods from
which, or upon which, goods in windows are suspended or supported, is made from
drawn or rolled strip metal.
Figure 2 represents in plan, the inner end of the said bracket and socket, with the
adjusting screw removed, in order to thus exhibit the filling in piece, which comes
between the sheet metal sides or checks of the carrying bracket of the arm.
Figure 3 shows a side elevation of the said arın, while figure 4 is a top side plan.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of the arm carrying bracket. Figure 6 is a section of the
same on the dotted lines A. B, and figure 7 is a plan and edge view of the sheet metal
blank from which the major portion or sides of the said arm carrying bracket is made.
Figure S is a front elevation of the single bracket shown in figure 1. Figure 9 is a
side elevation. Figure 10 is a section, and figure 11 is a plan of the same. Figure 12
shows a double bracket, of which figure 13 is a plan.
Figure 14 represents in front elevation, a rod socket. Figure 15 is a vertical
section of the same, and figures 16 and 17 are plan and cross section of the said rod
socket, which when in use, slides vertically upon a rod or tube, and carries a bracket
as aforesaid. Figure 18 represents the component parts of the said socket
separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several
figures.
a is a projecting arm (jointed at a²) with a short arm a³ at its inner end, upon which,
the inner end of an adjusting screw b, connected with the carrying bracket c, as
herein-after described, presses. This arm is provided upon its top side, with contracted
semi circular gaps a", "a", whereby rods supported within the said gaps are prevented
from falling out, or becoming displaced, on the angle made by the arm, becoming
considerable. The said arm is made from a strip of metal with rounded off edges
figure 14, of which the section is shown at figure 1".
The carrying bracket c is made from a sheet metal blank figure 7, folded into the
shape as represented in plan and side elevation, figures 2 and 5.
Thus, in making the said bracket, the blank figure 7 is folded nearly upon itself,
with the rear part c² formed into a sleeve, whilst the forepart which forms the cheeks
or sides, is directed parallel to each other, and connected together by a filling in
piece c³, wherethrough the adjusting screw b passes.
The under front part of the bracket is open, to admit of, the free working of the
inner end of the arm which has a U shaped packing piece c', disposed around its joint
part.
Fitted or riveted within the sleeve c², is a pivot d, whose upper end is divided

page_text: from its lower end, by a collar d³, which when in use, rests upon the top edge of the
open end of a socket e, made up of a short length of tubing e, and top and bottom
pierced plates e, e', with attachment parts e, e; thus, the said socket is made up of a
short length of shouldered (ended) tubing, and top and bottom plates e³, e¹ respectively
pierced with holes of the outside diameter of the extreme ends of the tube above and
below its end shoulders.
In putting together the parts, the plates are placed upon the ends of the tube,
which are turned over as shown in the section figure 10, thereby affixing the parts
together. The attachment parts es, e, are provided with screw holes, by means of
which, the socket is secured in position.
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Figures 12 and 13 represent a double socket, of the same construction as a single
socket as aforesaid.
The sliding socket as represented in figures 14 to 18, is of a like construction as the
single and double socket figures 9 to 13; that is to say, the said sliding socket is made
up of two lengths of tubing e, e¹, shouldered at their outer ends, and upon which said
ends, plates e³, e, with piercings of the outside diameter of the said ends, take, and
are there secured, by turning or closing over the extreme ends of the said tubes, upon
the inside boundary edges of the eyes, or holes, within the plates. Thus, the sliding
socket with a bracket socket, is made up of two lengths of tubing, secured and bound
together, by top and bottom connecting plates.
Two or more bracket sockets may be employed instead of one.
The tubes of the sockets may be made from drawn or open jointed lengths, and in
the case of a sliding socket, I make them from a sheet metal blank, folded into the
cross section of the said socket, and fitted with end plates; and further, the metal e
through which the clamping screw passes, may be thickened by piercing and bulging
outwardly, and subsequent compression; or a bush may be inserted through a piercing,
and then riveted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed. I déclare that what L
claim is
my saitl
First. Making the arms, or the bracket arms of brackets, of the kind as described,
set forth in
from lengths of drawn or rolled round edged strip metal, as
figures 1, 1, 1, 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. Making the gaps of the arms, or the bracket arms, as herein described,
of a semi-circular figure, and with the entrances to them, contracted, substantially as
and for the purpose as set forth.
Thirdly. Making the carrying brackets'c from sheet metal, folded nearly upon
itself, into the figure as represented in figures 2 and 5.
Fourthly. Making the carrying brackets c from sheet metal, with a filling in
piece c³, and with, or without a packing piece and pivot d, as set forth.
Fifthly. Making attachable sockets as set forth in figures 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13,
from short lengths of tubing, and sheet or cast metal ends, plates or connections,
secured together in the manner as illustrated.
Lastly. A combined sliding and bracket carrying socket, or sockets, making the said
combined socket or carrier from short lengths of tubing (or a shaped blank) connected
together by top and bottom sheet or cast metal (pierced) plates, or ends, substantially
as set forth in figures 14 to 18.
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