Improvements in and connected with Window Curtain, Shop Window, and other Rods.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1892-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Window Curtain, Shop
Window, and other Rods.
I, GEORGE CHISHOLM Junior, of 72 Port Street, in the Town and County of
Stirling, North Britain, Plumber, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention which relates to improvements in and connected with window
curtain, shop window and other rods, has for its object to provide a portable rod
which can be secured in any desired position, either horizontally or vertically
without the use of screw nails, and which may be used for hanging window and
door curtains, shop-window fittings and for other such purposes.
In carrying out my said invention I provide the rod, which is preferably a hollow
tubular metal rod, with one or more screwed nuts, which are fitted by means of
soldering or slots and lugs into one or both ends of the rod. The said screwed nut
or nuts engage with a screw provided in one or both of the end brackets which are
provided on their bearing surfaces with india rubber or other pads, sharp projections,
rough or smooth surfaces, so as to enable them to grip the surface to which they
are to be attached whether it be wood, glass, or other material. The said gripping
being effected by turning round the rod and so expanding outwards the end bracket
or brackets, which may if desired be provided with a pinching screw for holding
them in the desired position.
Dated this 20th day of September 1891.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Window Curtain, Shop
Window, and other Rods.
GEORGE CHISHOLM Junior of 72 Port Street, in the Town and County of
Stirling North Britain, Plumber 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 which relates to improvements in and connected with window
curtain, shop window, and other rods, has for its object to provide a portable rod
which can be secured in any desired position, without the aid or use of screw nails,
the said rod being employed for the display of goods in shop windows, but which
may be used for other purposes.
The invention consists in the employment of a rod, preferably a hollow tubular
metal rod, notched on one of its ends, and also of a bracket provided with a screwed
nut fitted thereto, which nut engages with a screw secured to the said bracket.
The bracket is provided on its bearing surface with india rubber or other pads, or
it may be with sharp projections, rough or smooth surfaces, to enable the bracket
to more firmly grip the surface to which it may be applied, whether it be wood,
glass or other material. The said gripping is effected, by turning round the rod,
and so expanding outwards the end bracket or brackets, which may if desired be
provided with a pinching screw for holding them in the desired position.
In order that my said invention may be properly understood. I now proceed more
particularly to set forth the system under which the same may be practically carried

page_text: into effect, reference being made to the annexed drawing and to the letters marked
thereon, that is to say;
On the sheet of drawing hereunto appended, the figure shewn is a longitudinal
view, drawn partly in elevation and partly in section.
The rod marked A is preferably tubular for lightness, this rod at one end is
notched at opposite sides, the said notches being represented by the letter a. These
notches a engage with corresponding projections 6 formed on the end nut B, when
the rod A is placed in position. The bracket C is provided with a screw d rigidly
secured thereto and on this screw the nut. B works up and down. The outer part
or face of the said bracket C at either end of the rod has a cushion of caoutchouc D,
for the more perfectly securing the rod and connections in the position it is intended
to occupy. Such a position having been chosen the bracket is placed against the
surface of the woodwork or other material, the rod A is then moved into the hollow
portion A of the bracket C when the projections 6 fit into the notches a as described,
the rod A is then turned round, when by virtue of the screw d the bracket ends C,
are forced out securely holding the rod in position as will be well understood.
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
First: In window curtain, shop window, and other rods, the combination of
nut B screw d projections 6 on the bracket C, and the notches a on the rod A,
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn in the
drawing.
Second-The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting my
improvements in and connected with window curtain, shop window, and other
rods, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn.
Dated this 29th day of June 1892.
D. DRYSDALE AUSTIN,
Applicant's Agent.