IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HANGING AND DRAWING CURTAINS
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOSEPH TURNER of 76 Hyde Lane Hyde in the County of Chester Joiner do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HANGING
AND DRAWING CURTAINS to be as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements applicable to the poles or cornices upon
which, window, door, or other curtains are hung, the object being to dispense with
the use of rods and rings and to afford a simple and efficient means for hanging
such curtains and drawing them to-and-fro as required.
I divide the pole or cornice longitudinally in two parts which can be connected
together by screws or other equivalent means or I make the same in the form of a
long box having in the interior thereof from end to end a long groove or channel
with a narrow opening or slit in the under side passing through the pole or cornice.
In this box, groove, or channel I place a suitable number of balls (by preferenco
of lead) having fixed therein pins which pass through and project out of the under
side of a pole or cornice through the long narrow opening or slit above referred to,
and terminate in an eye or hook.
A tape provided with two rows of eyelet holes is hooked by its upper row of
eyelet holes onto these projecting eyes or hooks, and the curtain is hung hy means
of hooks to the lower row of eyelet holes, so that the curtain may be drawn to or
fro and the balls will move or slide in the box groove, or channel of the pole or
cornice.
The ball nearest to the end of the box is fixed thereto so that one side of the
curtain remains immovable.
A hole is made horizontally through each ball and a cord is passed through the
whole series, being wedged or otherwise fixed firmly to that ball only which is
furthest from the ball which is fixed to the box as above mentioned.
This cord passes over suitable guide pulleys and it is evident that as it is drawn
outwards it will move the ball which is fixed to it (and hence the free edge of the
curtain) in the same direction, the other balls being each drawn out in succession
by the action of the tape, until the curtain is fully extended, on pulling the cord in
the other direction the reverse action takes place.
The invention is applicable to single- -or double curtains and to straight curved,”
or bent poles or cornices.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
JOSEPH TURNER of 76 Hyde Lane Hyde in the County of Chester Joiner
Builder and Contractor do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HANGING AND DRAWING CURTAINS and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :—
My Improved apparatus for hanging and drawing curtains consists of a cornice
pole formed in two parts with a grove formed inside in which slide lead balls
marked "A" and "B" a hole then runs horizontally through them so as to allow
the passage of a cord. A brass eye is cast in the Balls which protrudes through
the grove in the bottom of the pole when fixed in position that is about 5 inches
apart. A piece of strong tape T with Brass eye holes fixed in at the same distances
as the Balls is secured to the eyes at the Bin of the pole the pulleys C. D. E. F. G.
are fixed in plates then fastened inside the grove in the pole, the cords "H and I
which works the curtains hangs down at the end of the pole. The cord passes
over the pulley "C" and through the "Balls " "A" and "B" under the pulley
over the pulley E then round the pulley "F" and back through the "A" and "B2"
until it reaches the centre again it then passes under the pulley "E" and over "D"
to the pulley "G" where it hangs at the end of the pole the Balls "B" and "B2"
are secured to the pole being stationery. The Balls next to the centre pulleys
"D and "E" are fastened to the cord. When the cord "H" is pulled the balls
A" and "A"2 move in opposite directions until they reach the next one this
being loose on the cord it is pulled along until they reach the next and so on all
the balls being close together at each end of the pole. When the cord "F" is
pulled the Balls "A1" and "A 2" move towards the centre and as the tape
fastened to the eyes gets straightened out it begins to pull the next ball to it until
they all stand at equal distances the Balls "A" and "A 2" being near the centro.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to bo performed I declare that what
I claim is
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1. That the same can be made to apply to any cornice for hanging curtains on
no matter what shape the cornice pole may be.