An Improved Curtain-lifting and Door-closing Curtain Rod.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Curtain-lifting and Door-closing Curtain Rod.
We, REUBEN TAYLOR, and JOHN WILLIAM LIPTROT, trading as Taylor
and Liptrot, at 1 Hoghton Street, Southport, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
For the purpose of our invention, we secure a bracket to the top front end of the
architrave of the door frame, on the side on which the door is hinged, the upper
end of the bracket terminating with a pin or pivot.
We then secure a bracket to the top of the door, on the side on which it opens,
the upper end of this bracket terminating in the form of a ring or loop, to admit
of the door rod passing backwards and forwards through it.
The brackets are now ready to receive the rod, and one end of it is passed
through the ring or loop, the other end, having a hole through for the purpose, is
placed on the pin or pivot.
The rod turns upon the pivot bracket, and moves backwards and forwards through
the loop bracket, with the action of the opening and closing of the door.
The curtain is fixed to the rod in the usual way.
In order to cause the rod to raise and lower the curtain, and to close the door
automatically, we proceed as follows.
We secure one end of a cord, or chain, or the like, to the side of the rod nearest
the door, on the outside of the loop bracket, and we pass the other end back
through a pulley or eyelet fixed in the loop bracket, so that it hangs down behind
the curtain, and some distance down, we form this single end into two or more ends,
which ends we attach to the back of the curtain while the door is closed, and while
the bottom end of the curtain is resting upon the floor, each end being fixed
just taut.
When the door is opened the cord is drawn up by the rod moving through the
loop, and the ends raise the lower portion of the curtain from the floor.
As the door closes, the curtain falls to the floor again.
To close the door automatically, when desirable to do so, we attach a weight to
the cord, above the point where it is formed into separate ends, or in any other
convenient position, which weight draws the rod back through the loop, after the
door has been opened, and so swings the door to.
Dated this 12th day of March 1905
REUBEN TAYLOR.
JOHN WILLIAM LIPTROT.
An Improved Curtain-lifting and Door-closing Curtain Rod.
We, REUBEN TAYLOR and JOHN WILLIAM LIPTROT, of 1 Hoghton Street.
Southport in the County of Lancaster, 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 curtains or screens for excluding draughts, and devices
D

page_text: in connection therewith, which are so arranged that the opening of the door will
cause the curtain to be lifted from the threshold beneath. Moreover, by a peculiar
arrangement of parts, the curtains exert a weight on the door which automatically
closes it after being opened.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawing, in which,
Figure 1 is an elevation of a door provided with a curtain or screen, the door
being closed, and
Figure 2 the same with the door partly opened.
For the purpose of our invention, we secure a bracket A to the top front end of
the architrave of the doorway frame, on the side on which the door B is hinged,
the upper end of the bracket terminating with a pin or pivot. We then secure a
bracket to the top of the door, on the side on which it opens, the upper end of
this bracket terminating in the form of a ring or loop, to admit of the door rod
passing backwards and forwards through it. The brackets are now ready to
receive the rod D and one end of it is passed through the ring or loop in C, the
other end, having a hole through for the purpose, is placed on the pin or pivot of A.
The rod turns upon the pivot bracket A. and moves backwards and forwards
through the loop bracket with the action of the opening and closing of the door.
The curtain E is fixed to the rod in the usual way by curtain rings. In order to
cause the rod D to raise and lower the curtain E and to close the door B
automatically, we proceed as follows:-
We secure one end of a cord F, chain or the like, to the side of the rod D
nearest the door, on the outside of the loop bracket C, say at point F, and we
pass the other end back through a pulley or eyelet G fixed to or on the door, so
that it hangs down behind the curtain E, and some distance down we form this
single end into two or more ends, which ends we attach to the hack of the curtain,
while the door is closed and while the bottom end of the curtain is resting on the
floor, each end being fixed just taut. When the door is opened, the cord is drawn
up by the rod D moving through the loop C, and the ends raise the lower portion
of the curtain from the floor. As the door closes, the curtain falls to the floor
again. To close the door automatically, when desirable to do so, we attach a
weight to the cord F above the point where it is formed into separate ends, or in
any other convenient position, which weight draws the rod back through the loop,
after the door has been opened, and so swings the door to.
It will be noticed that in Figure 1, the pulley or eyelet G is shown fixed directly
to the door, while in Figure 2 it is combined in the bracket C, the result in each
case being substantially the same.
Having now particularly deseribed 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. In curtain lifting devices of the kind set forth in which a curtain rod is
pivotted at one end on an axis fixed to the doorway frame, and at the other resting
loosely and capable of sliding within a bearing carried by the door, the raising of
the curtain by means of a cord, chain, or its equivalent firmly attached at one end
to a fixed point at or near the extremity of the curtain rod, outside and beyond the
bearing aforesaid, and at the other to the lower part of the curtain, or other
suitable points thereon, the said cord being guided through an eye or pulley fixed
to or on the door, whereby as the door is opened and the distance from the bearing
aforesaid and the fixed point of attachment of the cord to the curtain rod increases,
the curtain is raised from the threshold.
2. In curtain lifting and door closing devices, the use and employment of an eye,
pulley, or equivalent device fixed to the door or to a bracket thereon through
which the cord for lifting the curtain is guided or led, substantially as and for the
purpose described.
3. The improvement in draught screens and their attachments for doors or the

page_text: like substantially as described, whereby the opening of the door will cause
the curtain to be lifted from the threshold beneath, while, when the force
which opened the door is removed, the curtain will descend and the door close
automatically.
Dated this 14th dow of November 1895
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.