US317824A - Carpet-fastener - Google Patents

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(NoModeL) V W. H. MGPADDIN & J.- P. LUCAS.

CARPET FASTENER. No. 317,824. Patented May 12, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM H. MCFADDIN AND JOSIAH P. LUCAS, OF OADIZ, OHIO.

CARPET- FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,824, dated May 12, 1885.

Application filed February 28, 1885. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. MoFAn- DIN and Josrau P. LUCAS, citizens of the United States, residing at Cadiz, in the county of Harrison and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oarpet-Fasteners; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to carpet-fasteners, and has for an object to provide a fastener which will securely hold the carpet in such manner that it may be easily released, and to so construct the fastener that the fastening devices will be obscured from view and the complete device will present the appearance of an ornamental molding. It has for further object to so form and connect the sections of the fast ener that the edges of the carpet will be protected from the ingress of dust, and the portion of such carpet close to the outer edge of the fastener will be held close to the floor.

To the ends described theinvention consists in certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, which will be first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an edge view of a section of carpet secured by our fastening. Fig. 2 is a sectional view drawn through the hinge of the section, with the motions indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating the manner of supporting the retaining hooks or studs; and Figs. 4 and 5 represent, in respectively edge view and section, a slightly-modified manner of applying our fastening to the carpet.

The fastening is composed of an under or lower section, A, and an upper section, B, which sections are hinged together at one edge, 0, so they may be turned together or apart, as will be understood from full and dotted lines in Fig. 2. The lower section has its outer side formed with walls a a at or approximately at right angles to each other, and its inner face is formed with a longitudinal groove, 05*, in the base of which are secured the upwardly-projecting pins or studs D, by which to retain the carpet. The upper section has its inner side formed with a longitudinal rib, b, which fits partially into the groove (6 of the lower section, and has formed in it small recesses b, which are so arranged and formed as to receive the points of the pins or studs D whenthe sections are brought together on the carpet, and they thus prevent the carpet from becoming detached from the pins or studs, and at the same time hold the points of said studs from bending outwardly and releasing the carpet, as will be understood.

In the preferred manner of using the improvement, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the wall a of the lower section is vertical, and is secured parallel to the wash-board, as seen in Fig. '1. For this reason, and for convenience of reference,the said wall will be hereinafter referred to as the vertical wall or edge of the said section. The outer side of the upper section is formed in ogee or other suitable molding shape to give a finish to the improvement. The edge of the outer section, it will be noticed, opposite the hinged edge 0, extends at B beyond the vertical edge oftheinner section a distance about equal a single thickness of carpet. The object of this extension Bwill appear in the description of the use of the improvement which will now be made.

In operation the carpet is placed between the two sections A and B, with the nap next the lower section, and the sections are then turned together, so as to cause the carpet to be held by the hooks, as will be seen. The fastening-strip is then turned on the carpet to bring the face a of the lower section flat against the nap of thecarpet, and the fastening is then placed against the wash-board,as shown in Fig. 1, and secured by screws or nails driven through the two sections into the floor; or an equivalent would be to drive the said screw or nail into the wash-board. By this arrangement it will be noticed there is provided a portion of the carpet lapped against the washboard, and which portion of carpet is covered by the extension 13 of the section B. This, lapping portion of the carpet serves as a packing to prevent the ingress of cold at the edges of the floor, and the extension 13 serves as a guard by which to prevent dust from the room accumulating on or back of such lapped portion of the carpet by fitting snugly against the wash-board above such portion, as shown.

There are other advantages attained by rolling the fastening-strip on the carpet. One is,

that by folding such carpet over the upper edge of the vertical face a and on the joint of faces a a friction is produced which relieves the pins or studs from considerable of the strain which would otherwise be exerted thereon in stretching the carpet. Another advantage is, that by the arrangement shown there is avoided the bulging appearance exhibited where carpets are secured ,by tacks at intervals, said bulging occurring between the tacks. By this improvement such bulging is obviated to a considerable extent by the frictional bends before referred to, and such bulging as does take place is back ofthe outer edge of the face a of the section, so that the carpet presents next the fastening a smooth, even appearance.

For the reason before described, by which a packing of carpet is provided, the pins are relieved of strain, and the bulging appearance of carpet is obviated, it is preferred to use the improvement. in the manner shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and before described. It is manifest, however, that the invention might be used in the manner shown in Figs. 4 and5'. In such use the face a is laid flat on the floor, and the extension B bears on the carpet in advance of the fastening, and holds the carpet firmly against the floor, and thus serves to obviate to a limited extent the bulging before referred to, and also prevents the sifting under the carpet of any dust that may pass or accumulate back of the fastener. In this use also the fitting of the points of the studs into recesses or seats in the upper section serves the same end in the arrangement first above described.

Instead of securing the pins to the under section and forming the seats in the upper section, this order may be reversed as an equivalent of the arrangement shown.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a carpetfastener, of the inner section or strip, the outer strip hinged at one edge to the inner section, and having its other edge extended beyond said inner section a distance approximately equal to the thickness of a carpet, pins or studs between, the sections,whereby to secure the carpet, and screws turned through both the fastening-strips and into the floor, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a carpet-fastener, of the lower section having a horizontal face, a, and a perpendicular face, a, studs or pins on said lower section, and the upper section hinged at one edge to the lower section at the outer edge of the face a, and having its other edge extended at B beyond the perpendicular edge a, and a fastening screw or screws, all arranged and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. MOFADDIN. JOSIAH P. LUCAS.

\Vitn esses:

J. O. BA'YLESS, R. A. MCCORMICK.

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