Improvements in Blind Rollers, and in the Mode of Attaching Blinds thereto.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1890--Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Blind Rollers, and in the Mode of Attaching
Blinds thereto.
I, ALAN TAYLOR HALL of 5 Bilton Road Rugby in the County of Warwick
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is improvements in blind rollers and the mode of
attaching blinds thereto so that the blind may be removed as well as attached thereto
without the use of nails which are objectionable for many reasons besides the nailing
and unnailing occupies a considerable time. My invention does away with these
objections, and the liability of splitting the roller, in the following manner :-
I form a hem along the top end of the blind capable of receiving a rod of iron brass,
steel or other metal or substance to give stiffness to the top end of the blind. Along
one side of the roller I make a groove sufficiently wide & deep to receive the top end
of the blind containing the said rod. At each end of the blind roller and at one or
more intermediate positions along the blind roller (according to its length) I attach
thereto a hinged flap which closes inwards into the groove when it is necessary to put
in or take out the blind. To secure the blind in the roller the flaps are lifted so as to
stand about level with its face and as they will not turn outwards being prevented
from doing this by shoulder stops the blind is held behind them quite securely while
in usc.
These flaps may have springs mounted behind them if necessary. Also
instead of the flaps I may employ buttons to turn over the slots.
Dated this 21st day of October 1889.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Blind Rollers, and in the Mode of Attaching
Blinds thereto.
I, ALAN TAYLOR HALL, of 5 Bilton Road, Rugby in the County of Rugby
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of my invention is: "Improvements in blind rollers and in the mode of
attaching blinds thereto": so that the blind may be removed as well as attached thereto
without the use of nails, which are objectionable for many reasons besides the nailing
and unnailing occupies a considerable time. My invention does away with these
objections; and the liability of splitting the roller, in the following manner:
I form a hem along the top end of the blind capable of receiving a rod of iron,
brass, steel, or other metal or substance to give stiffness to the top end of the blind.
Along one side of the roller I make a groove sufficiently wide and deep to receive the
top end of the blind containing the said rod. At each end of the blind roller and at
one or more intermediate positions along the blind roller (according to its length), I
attach thereto a hinged flap which closes inwards into the groove when it is necessary
to put in, or take out the blind; to secure the blind in the roller, the flaps are lifted
so as to stand about level with its face and as they will not turn outwards, being
prevented, from doing this, by shoulder stops the blind is held behind them quite
securely while in use. These flaps may have springs mounted behind them if
necessary. Also instead of the flaps I may employ buttons to turn over the slots.
:
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into
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page_text: practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which I have
fully illustrated the nature of my said invention.
Figure 1, is an elevation of a portion of a blind roller A having the blind B
attached by means of the flap D.
Figure 2, is a section through Figure 1 on the line 1-2.
Figure 3, is a similar elevation to Figure 1; but shewing the flap D in the position
for allowing the blind B to be detached from the roller A.
Figure 4, is a section through Figure 3 on the line 3-4.
Figure 5, is an enlarged section through Figure 1, on the line 5-6.
Figure 6, is an enlarged section through Figure 3, on the line 7-8.
In carrying my invention into effect I form the hem along the top end of the
blind B capable of receiving the rod E which gives the requisite stiffness to the top
end of the blind.
Along one side of the roller A 1 form the groove a sufficiently large to receive the
top end of the blind B and rod E and at the same time allow the hinged flap D, to
close inwards as seen in Figures 3, 4, & 6.
At each end of the roller A and at any other desired intermediate positions along
the roller I attach the hinged flap D which closes inwards into the groove a¹ as shewn
at Figures 3, 4, & 6, thus allowing the end of the b'ind B, containing the rod E to
be taken out or put in the groove as the case may he. The blind B is secured in the
roller A by the flap D which is hinged at d to the plate d², so that when the end of
the blind is in, the flap can be turned so as to take the position shewn by Figures 1, 2,
& 5 from which position it is prevented from moving outwards by the shoulder
stop d³ the end of the blind B being securely held behind the flaps D while
in use.
The flaps I may have springs mounted behind them or instead of the flaps D, 1 may
provide the buttons I as shewn open by Figure 7 and closed over the groove a' by
Figure 8.
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
The improvements in blind rollers and in the mode of attaching blinds thereto
substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn upon the accompanying
drawings.
1000
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.