Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/24—Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blinds
  • E06B9/26—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds
  • E06B9/36—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds with vertical lamellae ; Supporting rails therefor

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• This invention relates to a curtain system for hanging flat panels, for example made of curtain fabric.
• Modern living places increased demands on the curtain systems.
• flat curtain systems i.e. those in which the curtain fabric no longer hangs in a serpentine shape, but instead forms flat elements or panels, more light can enter a room and other optical effects and in particular a modern ambience can be achieved.
• the curtains are not just used to prevent someone from looking into the house from the outside, but are essential style elements that exude warmth and atmosphere and are supposed to shape a special design. In light-flooded rooms with large window fronts, the curtains are drawn across the entire width of the room.
• Panel curtain systems have become known which make do with one rail with only two parallel rail runs.
• the associated carriages are then suspended in the area of one end on their top in the first rail run and in the area of the other end on their top in the second rail run.
• the known constructions seem cumbersome because the panels, when pushed together on one side, form a thick stack. If the two curtain rail runs are relatively close to each other, the individual carriages run at a very acute angle to them and they can only be pushed together to overlap.
• the trolleys of the conventional systems must be inserted into the rail tracks before the rail is laid on the ceiling and can then no longer be moved out of the rail runs.
• the curtains cannot be put on such a carriage with a hemstitch, otherwise they would no longer be removable from them for the purpose of washing.
• the carriages are therefore on one Long side often equipped with a Velcro tape to which the curtain fabric of an associated curtain panel can be pressed using a Velcro tape sewn onto the edge of the fabric.
• the individual curtain panel fabrics can be torn away from the trolleys using the Velcro fastener and pressed back onto the trolleys after washing.
• the Velcro strips no longer hang taut after a few washing processes, so that the holding force is reduced and the associated curtain panel no longer falls flat.
• the existing panel curtain systems are not fully convincing for various technical reasons.
• their assembly is complex.
• the curtain panels appear cumbersome because the associated carriages are relatively thick due to their construction and form a thick stack, particularly when the panels are moved together on one side of the window, which has a particularly negative effect if the two curtain rail tracks are spaced relatively little apart. Then the individual panels can only be pushed together with limited overlap.
• the production of these panel curtain systems is too expensive due to the complex construction using Velcro strips. After all, it is hardly possible to remove the wagons once they have been installed in conventional systems without dismantling the rail tracks.
• the object of the present invention to provide a curtain system which consists of several flat panels such as curtain material or other flat material and which eliminates the disadvantages shown above.
• the curtain system should in particular allow the associated suspension rods to be easily removed from the curtain rails at any time.
• a curtain system with several flat panels made of a flat material, each panel having a hanging bar in the form of a horizontal bar made of metal, wood or plastic on which the flat material hangs freely on hemstones, and this Latte with Fastening means for rollers or sliders is provided, wherein the rollers or sliders of the one end regions of each slat are guided in a first common rail and the rollers or sliders of the other end regions of each slat in a second common rail, so that the panels can be pushed over one another, and that characterized in that the slats have recesses, holes or grooves opening into the end face and the fastening means are designed as plug-in elements which can be inserted or inserted into these recesses, holes or grooves in the slat from the end face or from the side.
• FIG. 1 The curtain system with two parallel rails one
• Figure 2 The end of a horizontal slat with a hook as
• Figure 3 The end of a horizontal slat with a hook for hanging on a roller axis
• Figure 4-10 Different variants of plug-in grooves or sockets with the corresponding plug-in elements shown in section on the end faces of a horizontal slat;
• Figure 11 A plug element made of spring steel with the associated crossbar in the form of an aluminum profile, as well as a slider and the associated rail run, all shown in a perspective view;
• Figure 12 The plug element made of spring steel with the associated crossbar from Figure 11 seen from the side, with the attached slider and inserted from the front into the crossbar;
• Figure 13 Three suspension rods for "curtain panels mounted on a rail with two rail runs, with a pull chain connecting them;
• the curtain system is shown in its application. It includes a mounting rail with two rail runs 7, 8, which are mounted on a ceiling 12 and which, in the example shown, serve for the displaceable hanging of four flat panels 9.
• the mounting rail can also be mounted on a lower board or form such a board.
• the rail runs can also be in a round bar.
• the two rail runs 7, 8 are laid parallel to each other and running parallel to the upper corner of the room at a small distance from each other.
• Each curtain panel 9 consists of a panel carriage with a crossbar 1 made of metal, wood or plastic and a piece of curtain fabric suspended thereon. A hollow hem at the upper edge of the curtain fabric is advantageously used for hanging the curtain fabric on the crossbar 1.
• the curtain can then simply be put over the crossbar 1 with this hemstitch. It then hangs freely downward and forms a flat panel 9.
• the lower hem can be equipped in a known manner with tensioning weights, for example with a weighting rod inserted into the lower hemstitch.
• the crossbar 1, on which the curtain fabric hangs, is provided at both ends with fastening means 4, each of which includes a hook, which can be hung on the eyelet 11 of a slider 6, which slides in a rail run, or on the axis one Is pair of rollers can be hooked, which rolls inside the rail runs 7; 8.
• the ends 2 of the slats 1, which are in each case on the left here, are suspended with their fastening means 4 on the sliders 6, which slide in the front rail run 7 facing the viewer.
• the respective right ends 3 of the slats 1 are on the other hand consistently attached with their fastening means 4 to the sliders 6, which are in the rear, the viewer slide away from the rail 8 of the mounting rail.
• the individual panels 9 inevitably hang at a slightly oblique angle with respect to the direction of the rail runs 7, 8 and the room wall or window wall running behind the curtain.
• all panels 9 can be pushed all the way to the left or all the way to the right until they overlap one another and strike their slats 1 together with the curtain fabrics attached to them.
• the panes 9 can be pushed together completely or only loosely at any position lying between these end points. This freedom of movement up to an overlap with the neighboring panel offers many possibilities for lighting design effects.
• the curtain panels 9 can also be moved slightly so that, for example, a window arranged behind them can be opened if necessary or a balcony or terrace door can be opened and the passage into the open is then ensured.
• a pull line provided with additional sliders can be used, these sliders being suspended between the sliders 6 of the slats 1 in one of the two rail runs 7; 8.
• the pull line detects and displaces a panel 9 with each of its sliders and can also be provided with a pull rod at at least one of its ends.
• the fastening means 4 here consists of a shaped piece, for example made of plastic or metal, which can be inserted from the end face 19 with a plug element 18 into a corresponding recess 23 from the crossbar 1. It is important that the fastener 4 is not wider or is shaped thicker than the slat 1 itself, so that the slats 1 which later run at a slightly oblique angle to the curtain rail 7; 8 can be pushed completely against one another and the distance between the slats 1 is not limited by the fastening means 4.
• the fastening means 4 shown here forms a hook 10 at the top.
• the slider runs in a conventional way in the rail of the curtain rail.
• the eyelet 11 and the hook 10 are shaped sufficiently wide that the fastening means 4 can be pivoted somewhat about the vertical axis with respect to the rail run 7, 8, in which it is suspended via the slider 6.
• the end 15 of the hook 10 comes so close to the end of the crossbar 1 that the remaining clear width is smaller than the thickness of the eyelet 11 and this means that it can no longer fall out of the hook 10.
• the curtain material which has a hemstitch at its upper end, can be pulled over the crossbar 1 and then beyond its end, so that the initial region of the hemstitch comes to lie in the region below the hook 10.
• the hemstitch of a curtain panel is indicated.
• This hemstitch is provided with a stitch at the upper outer end, so that a small stitching 29 is formed, as a result of which this upper outer corner forms a tiny pocket 30. If the hemstitch is pushed all the way to the left over the slat 1, this pocket 30 comes to lie over the upper left corner of the slat 1 here and slips over the corner of the slat 1 there, which forms a shoulder 16.
• This paragraph 16 which is formed by the upper slat corner, then acts as a barb for the curtain fabric and ensures that it cannot slide back on the slat 1. Exactly the same applies to the other side of the hemstitch and the crossbar 1.
• FIG. 3 shows an alternate fastening means 4. This can also be inserted into the recess 1 in the slat 1 by means of a plug element 18 from the front side.
• this fastening means 4 is shaped differently and has a hook 10, which includes a longer neck 17 or part projecting upwards.
• the hook 10 is opened obliquely downwards and is dimensioned such that it can be hung on the connecting axis 13 between two associated rollers 5.
• the pair of rollers 5 is in the rail run a slope rail introduced, in which it rolls in the longitudinal direction of the rail run.
• Figures 4 to 10 show different variants of end faces 19 for the slats 1.
• the slats 1 in Figure 4 have two plug-in sockets 22 on the end face, into which corresponding plug-in pins 18 can be inserted on the fastening means 4.
• a recess 23 with a rectangular cross section can be seen on the front side, into which an associated plug element can be inserted.
• the recess 23 is designed as a groove with a trapezoidal cross section, which is open on its smaller trapezoidal side, that is to say a groove with a dovetail cross section is formed on the crossbar 1, into which a plug-in element 18 is inserted from the front side of the crossbar can be.
• a trapezoidal cross section which is open on its smaller trapezoidal side, that is to say a groove with a dovetail cross section is formed on the crossbar 1, into which a plug-in element 18 is inserted from the front side of the crossbar can be.
• the recess 23 is again rectangular and arranged in the interior of the crossbar 1, but is open on one side of the crossbar 1 with a small width.
• the slat 1 has an open insertion groove 23 at the top and bottom, into which corresponding rectangular profile sections 18 on the fastening means 4 fit.
• FIG. 9 shows a variant of the crossbar 1 with a laterally recessed groove of rectangular cross section and
• FIG. 10 finally shows a crossbar with grooves on both sides, each with a rectangular cross section. Via these two grooves, a fork-shaped fastening means 4 can be inserted, the fork legs 38 of which are resilient and have a certain pretension, so that the inserted fork is jammed in the grooves.
• FIG. 11 shows a particularly advantageous exemplary embodiment of the curtain system, only one end of a crossbar 1 being shown here.
• This lath 1 is an aluminum profile 2.4 mm thick and 17 mm wide, which is produced by the extrusion process and has as recess 23 a laterally open insertion groove 23 of slightly more than 1 mm depth with a dovetail cross section, as already shown in FIG. 6.
• the fastening means 4 are formed here at both ends of the crossbar 1 by a plug element 18 made of spring steel of approximately 0.7 mm thickness, for example, which has a shape as shown in the figure.
• This plug element 18 is a stamped part, which is therefore inexpensive to manufacture.
• a single special slider 6 which is known under the trade name Clic-Glider, and which can also be used for conventional curtains. Its eyelet 11 is slipped over the hook 10 on the fastening means 4, or the hook 10 is hung on the eyelet 11.
• this Clic glider 6 has latching lips 26 that can be pivoted downward elastically on both sides, so that it can be inserted from below at any point through the slot 28 of the rail run of the associated curtain rail 7 into the interior thereof. The locking lips 26 are temporarily pivoted downwards and they pivot back elastically after passing the slot edges and thereby lock the slider 6 in the rail run of the curtain rail 7.
• the fastening means 4 is first hooked into the slider eyelet 11 and then with the attached slider 6 as shown by the arrow from the end face of the slat 1 into the insertion groove 23.
• the tip 15 of the hook end is located approximately at the height of the profile end or the end face the crossbar 1. This ensures that the eyelet 11 of the slider 6 cannot slide off the hook 10.
• the hook 10 can still be swiveled laterally within the eyelet 11, namely on each side by approximately 45 °.
• the plug element 18 is now held in the insertion groove 23 due to static friction. This static friction is significantly increased by the spring force of the plug element 18 with which it is spread in the insertion groove 23. The generated static friction force is so great that the plug-in element 18 is held securely in the groove.
• a plug element 18 with a slider 6 is first inserted in the manner shown at one end of the slat 1 from the front into the insertion groove 23.
• the crossbar 1 is then inserted through the hemstitch 27 of an associated curtain fabric 9.
• a plug-in element 18 with slider 6 is inserted in the same way at the other end of the slat 1. Then the crossbar 1 together with the curtain material 9 can be clicked into the two spaced rail runs 7, 8 by means of the sliders 6. It is advisable to make the hemstitch about 2.7-3.0 cm high, so that The entire fabric panel can easily be stripped off the hanging bar, including the hook and sliding element, and can be put over the hanging bar again after washing.
• Figure 13 shows three slats 1, one end of which hangs on a slider 6 in a rail run 7, and the other end hangs in the same way on a second rail run 8.
• This figure helps to understand how the individual slats 1 interact. That is why they are shown here without a curtain panel, in a view from the window into a room.
• the grooves 23 in the slats 1 thus face the window here, so that neither the grooves 23 nor the parts of the plug elements 18 inserted into them can be seen from the room.
• tension elements 31 are also suspended here from the eyes of the sliders 6. Two such tension elements 31 are shown separately below the figure and are shown on a somewhat enlarged scale.
• plastic plates with a hook which has a tapering opening 35, so that such a tension element 31 can be clipped over the eyelet 11 of a slider 6 with a slight spreading of the upper hook leg and is securely held thereon.
• two approximately semicircular shells 33, 34 are formed on this plate 31, which are elastically expandable somewhat apart and between these two shells 33, 34 there is a hole 36 that passes through the plate.
• a bead 32 of a chain 37 can be clipped in between these two shells 33, 34, so that it is clamped between these two shells.
• a ball chain 37 with balls 32, which sit on a cord passing through them, can now connect the individual slats 1 of a curtain arrangement to one another in the manner shown.
• the batten 1 which is located on the far right in the picture, is the end batten there.
• a tension element 31 is attached, to which the chain 37 with the balls 32 is attached.
• the chain 37 is subsequently guided to the other end of the next slat 1 and clipped there in the same way to a suspended pulling element 31. From there, the chain 37 leads to the other end of the next adjoining slat 1 and is clipped there in the same way to a suspended pulling element 31. If further slats 1 would follow, the chain 37 would always be attached to the other ends thereof. To the When the finished panel curtain is opened or pushed aside, the chain 37 can be gripped at the end on the right here in the picture and pulled to the left in the picture.
• the chain 37 can be pulled towards the right at its right end here. It is then gradually tightened and pulls the next batten 1 from its other end towards the right in the picture.
• the chain length between two fastening points is advantageously chosen so that the panels or slats 1 overlap somewhat when the chain is tensioned. Then there is a nice play of light in the panels.

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