US574796A

US574796A - Stair-carpet-securing device

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Publication number: US574796A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-01-05
Anticipated expiration: 1914-01-05

Description

(No Model.)

B. F. GARDNER. STAIB CARPET SECURING DEVICE.

Patented Jan. 5, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD FRANKLIN GARDNER, OF SORANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

STAlR-CARPET-SECURING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,796, dated January 5, 1897.

Application filed June 24, 1896. $erial No. 696,747. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD FRANKLIN GARDNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stair-Oarpet-Securing Devices; and I do.

hereby declare the following to be afull, 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.

This invention relates to an improvement in stair-carpet securers and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts here inafter described, and definitely pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a device which can be applied securely to the riser of stairs with but little trouble and which will receive the carpet and holding-button in such a manner that the same may be quickly applied and readily removed.

The objects of the invention are attainedby the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a central section through the device. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the device applied to the stair and a section of carpet in place. Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Figs. 4 and 5 are plan views of the plate, showing the same in different adjustments.

In the drawings, A designates a fiat plate having at one end an opening B, formed with the countersunk edge and adapted to receive the head of the screw by which the plate is secured to the riser D. At the opposite end of the plate A is a pointed pin E, rigidly secured to the plate and having its base formed cylindrical and screw-threaded to receive the threads on an aperture formed in the button F, which latter may be of any convenient or desirable style. j

In applying the device it is only necessary to place against the riser and force the screw in until its head is flush with the face of the plate. The screw-opening being at one side of the center of the plate, the screw can be readily driven in Without interference on the part of'the pin. When the plate is securely seated, the carpet is forced over the pin and the button is secured on the threaded portion of the pin. The pin being rigid on the plate, there is no danger of the same becoming detached therefrom, an objection existing in known forms of this class of devices.

An additional advantage of eccentrically mounting the plate is that the same may be turned to bring the pin in proper position relative to the steps, and thereby compensate for any irregularity between the plane of the screws at opposite sides of the riser.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a stair-carpet-securing device, the combination with a flat plate having a screw secured at one end thereof adapted to be inserted in a riser, a pin at the opposite end and side having a threaded section at its base, and a button, substantially as described.

2. A stair-carpet-securing device, consisting of a flat oblong plate having a countersunk opening at one end, and a rigid pointed pin at the opposite end permanently secured to the plate and formed with a threaded base, and a button, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD FRANKLIN GARDNER.

Witnesses:

B. G. MORGAN, FRANK BELDIN.