cornice ring

cornice ring (plural cornice rings)

1. A round moulding that encircles the base or top of a structural element, such as the architrave of a pillar, the terminus of a round pipe, the base of a cupola, etc.
   • 1896, The Metal Worker, page 60:

     The leading features of this stove are an air tight ash pit, vibrating draw center grate, ornamental fire pot ring, double wood door, inside smoke curtain, richly designed top cornice ring, boiler hole in top, handsome swing cover, elaborate foot rail and nickel latches and hinge pins.

   • 1993, Susan Elizabeth Klaiber, Guarino Guarini's Theatine Architecture - Volume 1, page 266:

     The pendentives themselves visually support a cornice ring which then forms the base for the cupola.

   • 2003, John Beldon Scott, Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin, page 131:

     These curved elements seem to flare out in response to the visual weight of the great cornice ring capping the pendentive zone.

   • 2019, Marylin Martin Rhie, Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, page 712:

     Simplicity and boldness characterize the lotus motif in the center and the laurel-leaf cornice ring around it ( Figs. 4.83a, b ).

2. (historical) The ring on a cannon next to or behind the muzzle ring.
   • 1853, C. Rumpf, O. Mothes, W. Unverzagt, Dictionnaire technologique, page 332:

     Gorgerin, m . The neck of a gun (which lies between the muzzle-mouldings and the cornice-ring.)

   • 1941, Proceedings of the Connecticut Association of Civil Engineers and Surveyors Association at Its 1st Annual Meeting..., page 64:

     All cannon had a " ram force" ring as a guide to the amount of load that could be used, and naval guns had also a "cornice ring",

   • 1990, Vannoccio Biringucci, Pirotechnia, page 235:

     The various cornice rings, trunnions , and ornaments were made movable so as to allow the main pattern to be slid longitudinally out of the mould.

3. One of several matching rings that encircle a curtain rod and from which the curtain is suspended.
   • 1883 January 6, The Furniture Gazette - Volume 19, page 7:

     In this case it would be necessary for the rings to be made to hang in the groove at the top of the pole, which would be easily accomplished by an internal projection inside the upper portion of the cornice ring; indeed, a little friction roller on a pin to keep the coils from springing back .

   • 1915, Reports of Patent, Design, and Trade Mark Cases, page 553:

     The Patentees made no claim to any special form of hook or attachment to the curtain rod, or cornice ring.

   • 2013, S. Timmins, Birmingham and Midland Hardware District, page 298:

     In making ordinary tube cornice rings, where the tube is made of thin sheet brass, the tube requires to be filled with sand in order to retain its cylindrical form in “winding,” and to prevent the appearance of “puckering."