To fasten rails on the two posts of a half tester iron bedstead to carry curtains so that they will swing, Fig. 1 shows the arrangement as fixed on the pillar of bedstead. An iron bracket of wrought fiat iron Jin. by 1/4 in. should be made as shown in Fig. 1, the upper part swelled out and drilled so as to fit over the top of pillar on the screw. The brass knob screwed down on it, with a washer between, will keep it in place. Fig. 2 shows the bottom fixing. This is a solid forging drilled through the centre to take the pin of the bracket, and with a clip for the pole fastened to it with a tightening screw. The bracket (Fig. 1) is turned up at the end, swelled out and drilled for a brass tubing to pass through; a small eye similarly made is fixed at the back end of the bracket (see Fig. 3). The brass rod should have eyes fixed into it about 4 in. apart, as shown in Fig. 4. To these eyes the curtains hang from brass hooks. The brass knob at the under side of the solid bracket rest will keep the bracket tight in its position.

Fig. 2.

Fig. 3.

Fig. 4. Fitting Swing Curtain Rails to Iron Bedstead.