Improvements in Eyes for Holding Stair and other Rods.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 28th Sept., 188
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Eyes for Holding Stair and other Rods.
I WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH 6, Livery Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to the manufacturing of Eyes for holding Stair and other
Rods in such a manner as will greatly facilitate the fixing or removal of the Rod
from the Stairs, and so give simplicity and economy of manufacture thereof, I will
describe an Eye according to my invention. For holding the rod of a stair carpet
between the tread and the riser of a step, I take a strip of sheet brass, or other
suitable metal, out of which I cut a blank, being of a suitable width at the middle,
and tapering off at one of its extremeties to a point, the other end to be left square,
About the middle of the said blank, and on either sides, are projections in the form
of ears, I, by means of press tools, form corrugations on the wide part, for the purpose
of producing strength and rigidity, I then bend inward the two ends of the said
blank, into the form of semicircles or arc's, the distance between the two semi
circles or arc's thus formed being a little less than the thickness of the Rods to
be used with the Eyes.
When desired to place the Rods in position on the Stairs it is only necessary to
press them against the face of the semi circular parts of the Eyes, which parts,
acting as a spring, yield, and allow the Rod to pass into the Eyes, which
dispenses with the process of fixing or withdrawing the Rod from the end of
the Eyes.
I fasten the said Eyes to the tread or riser of a Step by screw holes being
pierced in the ears aforesaid, or I may fix them by a single hole being pierced
through the middle or wide part of the Eye with a screw or peg. In this arrange-
ment I make a small undercut in the under side of the said Eye which part is
bent at right angles into the shape of a spear point, which point is driven into
the tread the screw or peg being placed into the riser of the step.
When desirous of fastening the said Stair Eyes to Stone Stairs I employ a dowel
which I rivet to the back of the Eye and fix it to the Stone Steps in the usual way.
Dated this 29th day of November 1887.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH.

page_text: Improvements in Eyes for Holding Stair and other Rods.
I WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH of Great Western Buildings, Livery Street
Birmingham, in the county of Warwick Mechanical Engineer, 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:-
Improvements in Eyes for holding stair and other rods.
My invention relates to the manufacturing of Eyes for holding stair and other rods,
in such a manner, as will greatly facilitate the fixing or removal of the rod from
the stairs, and to give simplicity and economy of manufacture.
Thereof I will describe an eye according to my invention.
For holding the rod of a stair carpet between the tread and the riser of a
step I take a strip of sheet Brass or other suitable metal out of which I cut a
blank being of a suitable width at the middle and tapering off at one of its
extremities to a point, the other end to be left square, about the middle of the
said blank, and on either sides are projections in the form of ears. I by means
of press tools form corrugations on the wide part, for the purpose of producing
strength and rigidity. I then bend inward the two ends of the said blank, into
the form of semi circles or arc; the distance between the two semicircles or arc's
thus formed, being a little less than the thickness of the rods, to be used with
the eyes. When desired to place the rods in position on the stairs, it is only
necessary to press them against the face of the semi-circular parts of the eyes, which
parts acting as a spring, yield and allow the rod to pass into the eye, which dispenses
with the process of fixing or withdrawing the rod from the end of the eyes. I fasten
the said eyes to the tread or riser of a step by screws, holes being pierced in the ears
aforesaid or I may fix them by a single hole being pierced through the middle or
wide part of the eye, with a screw or peg.
In this arrangement I make a small undercut, in the under side of the said eye,
which part is bent at right angles into the shape of a spear point, which point is
driven into the tread, the screw or peg being placed into the riser of the step. When
desirous of fastening the said stair eyes to stone stairs, I employ a dowel, which I
rivet to the back of the eye, and fix it to the stone steps in the usual way.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my Invention may be performed. Figures 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
and 11, represent eyes for holding stair rods, constructed according to my Invention.
Figure 2 and 3 represent the strips of sheet Brass or metal blanks before they are
formed into Stair Eyes.
Figure 12 represents a dowell used for affixing the said eyes to stone stairs. The
same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the Drawings.
In Figure 1, illustrate a pair of Stair rod Eyes constructed according to my
invention, and attached to the tread and riser of the step by means of the screws s,
and holding the stair rod e in position. In making a stair rod Eye, according to

page_text: my invention, I take a strip of sheet Brass or other suitable metal, and with press
tools, cut out a blank into the form shown in Figure 2, and having on either sides,
projecting ears a. I form corrugations b, on the said blanks, for the purpose of
producing strength and rigidity to the said stair Eye. The top part of the said
blank I make taper which is to form the upper part of the stair Eye. Figure 3 shews
the blank with the holes for affixing to the stairs with a screw or nail. In
figure 4, I represent in side and front elevations, and Figure 5 a plan of a stair
Eye, formed from the blank Figures 2 and 3.
The bottom semicircular part d is formed for the reception of the stair rod.
Figure 6 shows a cross section on c. y. Figure showing the corrugations.
In figure 7, I represent in side elevations a stair rod Eye, and a stair rod e in
section, in the position of entering the said Eye. The rod e being pressed
against the taper part or front of the eyes at which acting as alspring yields
to the pressure, the corrugations & not extending down this part of the said eyes.
The stair rod passes into its position as shown at Figure S, also at Figure 1, the
taper part springing forward to its normal position, prevents the said rod e from
rising without pressure being applied, I thus dispense with the process of fixing or
withdrawing the rod from the ends of the Eyes.
In figure 9, I represent the same stair rod eye with a different method of fixing to
steps I make a small undercut g in the back part of the said Eye which part is bent
at right angles into the spear point h, which point may be driven into the riser of the
step, and in the bottom part of the Eye I pierce a hole i for fixing to the tread of a
step with a screw or nail, or the spear point and the hole i may be placed vice-versa.
In Figure 10, and 11, 1 represent in side and front elevations à stair rod Eye
constructed according to my invention for fixing to stone steps.
In this arrangement I rivet a dowel Figure 12, to the back part of the stair rod
Eye, and fix it to stone steps in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
Improvements in Eyes for holding stair and other rods substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the several figures of the accompanying drawing, whereby
the fixing and removing of a rod from the stair Eyes is obviated by pressing a rod
against the front of the Eyes, instead of passing thein from end to end.
Dated August 25th 1888.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH.