US752360A - Carpet-fastener - Google Patents

Description

No. 752,360. iATENTED FEB. 16, 1904.- R. 0. RUSSELL & A. W. SIEGEL.

GARPET PASTENER.

APPLIUATION FILED 00129, 1903.

K0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES 1 ROBERT c. RUSSELL Ann Patented February 16, 1904'.

PATENT Orricn.

CARPET-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.752,360, dated February 16, 1904:.

Application filed 05mm 29, 1903.

T cell whom it may concern; v,

Beit known that we, ROBERT C. RUSSELL and ANDREW W. SIEGEL, citizens of the United States, residingat W'i'lliamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Carpet-Fastener,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to carpet-fasteners, and especially to a fastener for securing carpets upon stairs, and has for its objects to produce a simple inexpensive device of this character susceptible of ready application'or removal and one which will in practice maintain the carpet securely in position.

To these ends the' invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

I In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating one form of embodiment of the invention applied. Fig, 2 is a similar view of one of the members of the fastener. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the other member of the fastener. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation showing another form of embodiment of the invention. Fig. 5 is a similar view disclosing still another form.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the tread, and 2 the riser, of a stair, these parts being of the usual or any preferred construction, and 3 a section of carpet secured to the stair by my improved fastening device 4, which, as herein shown, consists of a primary engaging member or base-plate 5 and a secondary clamping or retaining member 6.

As illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the primary member 5 is in the form of a sheetmetal plate having a central longitudinallydisposed channel or depression 7, thus producing upon the normally rear or inner face of the plate a rib or projection 8,which terminates short of one end of the plate, as atv 9, and produces in rear of the plate, when in position upon the stair, longitudinal recesses 9'. The plate is provided at its center with openings or perforations 10, which receive screws or analogous fastening devices 11, by which the plate is secured to the stairriser, while upon the longitudinal edges of the plate there is Serial Fo.'l79,059-. (No model.)

of a suitable length i of sheet metal folded back upon itself to form an outer bearing plate or. portion 13 and an inner plate or portion which is centrally re-- cessed orcut away, as at 14, to produce a pair of spacedengaging arms or elements 15, disposed in parallel relation and designed in practice to enter, respectively, the recesses 9, with the rib or projection 8 between them, and to bear at opposite sides of the latter on the rear face of member 5. It is here to be noted that the outer plate 13 is of a transverse width slightly less than the distance between the teeth 12 on opposite sides of plate 5, whereby when the parts are assembled the edges of the plate will lie just within the line of the teeth, thereby pressing the carpet into direct and secure engagement with the latter, and, further, that when the member 6 ismoved to position upon the member 5 it will be limited or stopped in such movement by the end 90f rib 8 with which it will come in contact. In Fig. 4 the members of the device are identical with those above described, except that the base-plate 5 is angularly bent at its transverse center into L form in cross section, whereby it will fit snugly into the angle or corner at the juncture of thetread and riser and that the outer plate 13 of the member 6 is given a transverse inward curvature or bend for nearer approach to the base-plate.

In Fig. 5 the outer plate 13 of member 6 has along its longitudinal edges inner grooves or recesses 16, which overlie the teeth or prongs 12 and produce inwardly-extending edge flanges 17, designed to bear upon the carpet transversely beyond said teeth, the parts being otherwise identical in construction and operation with that above described.

From the foregoing'it is apparent that in order to secure the carpet in position the member 5 is attached to the stair,- the carpet laid over and pressed downward upon the teeth 12, and the member 6 slipped by an endwise movement into position with its plate 13 overlying the carpet and its arms or elements 15 engagwith a base-plate adapted for attachment to a.

* stair, of a clamping-plate adapted for cooperation with the base-plate to hold a carpet disposed between them, and an arm provided on one of said plates to engage the outer face of the other.

2. In a carpet fastener, the combination with a base-plate adapted for attachment to a stair, of a clamping-plate adapted for cooperation with the base-plate to hold a carpet disposed between them, one of said plates being provided with a recess and the other with an engaging arm designed to enter the recess.

3. In a carpet fastener, the combination with a base-plate adapted for attachment. to a stair'and having a rear recess, of a clamping member adapted for cooperation with the baseplate to hold a carpet disposed between them, said member having an engaging element adapted for entering the rear recess to hold the parts in clamping position.

4:. In a carpet fastener, the combination with a base-plate adapted for attachment to a stair and having a longitudinal rib disposed between its transverse edges, of a clamping member adapted for engagement with the base-plate for holding a carpet disposed between them, said member having engaging elemgnts adapted to lie upon opposite sides of the r1 5. In a carpet-fastener, the combination with a base-plate adapted for attachment to a stair and having a longitudinal rib disposed between its transverse edges, of carpet-engaging teeth or prongs provided upon the edges of the base-plate, and a carpet-engaging member cooperating with the base-plate to hold a carpet disposed between them, said member comprising an outer plate and a pair of inner spaced arms adaptedto engage inrear of. the base-plate and receive the rib between them.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto aflixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses. 1

ROBERT C. RUSSELL. ANDREW. W. SIEGEL. Witnesses: w Y

J. S. LEWARS,

M. G. RHoNE.

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