Improvements in and relating to Cornice Pole Rings and Curtain Rings.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1897
ALON.
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
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the eye of a curtain ring, or a cornice pole ring, provided.
for the purpose of receiving the hook of curtain pin as a means of suspending
curtains to cornice pole rings or to curtain rings.
In carrying out my invention I cut, pierce, or otherwise produce a combined
eye-piece and securing-horn, namely a lower circular part in which is provided
the eye or hole and above the eye-hole, two securing-horns of suitable length to
connect to cornice pole ring, or curtain pole ring.
I next twist the securing-arms so as to present the eye-piece edge-ways and the
securing arms face-ways, one arm on each side of the eye-piece.
I in some cases produce the combined eye and securing horns, by the process of
casting, or punched from a strip in a machine, therefore I wish it to be distinctly
understood that the combined eye-piece and securing-arms is a new manufacture
and as such forms the first modification of my invention.
By a second modification of my invention I form a curtain-ring or a cornice-
pole-ring with a loose butt joint unsoldered, near each of the butt ends of such
ring I punch horn-holes, I then take a ring so punched and secure the butt-ends
together by passing the two horns of my combined eye-piece and securing-horns
through the holes provided in the ring to receive them, and then by suitable
mechanical means bend over the project ends of the horns inwards, and so secure
the eye-piece to the ring and at the same time secure a rigid butt joint without
solder.
By a third modification I provide curtain-rings or cornice-pole-rings that are
produced without a butt joint or that are soldered together at the butt joint; on
any suitable part of such ring I punch two horn-holes and then secure to the ring
a combined eye-piece and horns in the manner described in relation to the second
modification.
Dated this 21st day of February 1806
ALFRED WM. TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
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, Brassfounder 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 the eye of a curtain ring or a cornice pole ring

page_text: provided for the purpose of receiving the hook of curtain pin as a means of
suspending curtains to cornice pole rings or to curtain rings.
In carrying out my invention I proceed in the manner described in relation to
the accompanying drawings in which the improved eyes are shewn as connected to
curtain-rings or cornice-pole-rings.
Figure 1 represents a flat sheet metal stamping ready for twisting.
Figure 2 represents the stamping Figure 1 with the securing-horns so twisted as
to move the horns edge-ways over the flat eye.
Figure 3 represents an open-jointed ring suitable for use as a curtain-ring or as
a cornice-pole-ring, such ring being fastened together by means of my improved
horned-eye-piece.
Figure 4 represents a solid or closed ring to which is secured my improved
horned-eye-piece.
In constructing and utilizing my invention I cut or pierce from a sheet of metal
a flat blank of the shape shewn in enlarged view Figure 1. I next bend or twist
the horns ab at right angles to, the ring e thus moving the horns or arms a into
the position shewn at d Figure 2, or instead of producing the combined eye-piece
and securing-arms ready for use as shewn at Figure 2 by two separate operations
1 produce the horned-eye-piece under one operation by the process of casting, or
I produce the improved horned-eye-piece from a strip of metal passed through a
machine after the mauner of making machine-cut-nails.
That is to say I provide any ordinary nail-cutting machine which consists of a
frame with two side-cheeks carrying a spindle the revolution of which operates a
cutting-jaw, a gripping-lever, and a heading-lever mounted within the frame;
I feed the strip of metal under the cutting-jaw and the knife of such cutting-jaw
cuts off a flat blank of the shape shewn in enlarged view Figure 1, the gripping
lever tool catches and grips the cut-off blank and holds it rigidly until the
heading-lever tool strikes the gripped blank and thereby bends, the horus a and b
at right angles to the ring c; borned-eye-pieces produced of the shape hereinbefore
described and as illustrated in relation to Figures 1 and 2 constitute a new
manufacture for use in combination with curtain-rings and cornice-pole-rings.
By a second modification or further part of my invention I form a curtain-ring
or a cornice-pole-ring with one open joint, namely a butt-joint not soldered brazed
or otherwise connected, near each of the butt-ends of such ring I punch horn-holes,
I next take a ring so punched and secure the butt ends together by passing the
horns a and b of combined eye-piece and securing-horns through the holes e and f
provided in the ring and then by suitable mechanical means, bend over the projecting
ends g h of the horns, inwards as shewu at j and k Figure 3, and so secure the eye-
piece to the ring and at the same time produce a rigid butt-joint without soldering or
brazing.
By a third modification or further development or part of my invention I
provide curtain-rings or cornice-pole-rings that have been produced without a
butt-joint, or that have been soldered together or otherwise amalgamated together
at the butt-joint as shewn at Figure 4; on any suitable part of such completed
ring or rings I punch two holes elf' and then secure to the complete ring a
combined eye-piece and horns in the manner herein before described in connection
with the second modification in relation to the horns g and h shewn straight at
Figure 1 and bent at j and k Figure 3.
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,
1st. The making of a combined eye-piece and securing-arms for use in
connection with cornice-pole-rings and curtain-rings by hand, out of a flat
stamping, by twisting the securing-arms at right angles with the eye-piece as
illustrated and described in relation to Figures 1 and 2.
2nd. The making of a combined eye-piece and securing-armis for use in

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connection with cornice-pole-rings and curtain-rings by the
the twisted shape described in relation to Figure 2.
3rd. The making of a combined eye-piece and securing-arms for use in
connection with cornice-pole-rings and curtain-rings of the shape described in
relation to Figure 2 from a strip of metal cut and punched into shape within a
machine after the manner of producing machine cut nails.
4th. The combination with an open-jointed curtain-ring or cornice-pole-ring, of
an horned or armed eye-piece the horns or arms of the eye-piece taking into holes.
provided in the periphery of ring and the horns or arms afterwards bent over so
as to secure the butting-ends of ring in position without solder or equivalent
amalgum as described in relation to ejj and k Figure 3.
5th. The combination with soldered or otherwise closed curtain-rings or cornice--
pole-rings, of an horned or armed eye-piece taking into holes provided in the
periphery of ring and the arms afterwards bent over so as to secure the eye-piece
5 to the ring, as described in relation to e¹ and f¹ Figure 4.
November 1896.
DEEVES.
Dated this
Witness-
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ALFRED WM. TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, 67 Corporation Street, Birmingham,
International Patent-Agent (Enrolled).
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