JP2003310421A - Curtain - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a curtain in which housing designs are taken into consideration. <P>SOLUTION: The curtain has a curtain fabric (2), a curtain rail (14) to be mounted horizontally and fixing means (10 and 15). The curtain fabric (2) is fixed on the curtain rail being movable horizontally thereon. An operating means (3) for getting the curtain fabric (2) multi-folded is arranged on the curtain fabric (2). Preferably, the operating means (3) is mounted substantially invisible on the rear (20) of the curtain fabric (2). The mounting of the operating means (3) on the curtain fabric (2) is preferably made with a hook-and-loop fastener (4) so as to remove it simply for the cleaning of the curtain fabric (2). The curtain rail (14) especially employs a decoration rail. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a curtain material,
A curtain with curtain rails or curtain rods to be mounted horizontally and fixing means arranged at the upper edge of the curtain fabric, whereby the curtain fabric is fixed to the decorative rail.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION For window decorations or even for interior compartments, curtain fabrics, decorative rails and curtain fabrics and decorative rails, which are relatively simple in construction and are also called wall hangings, have long been used. There is known a curtain which is composed only of fixing means. The curtain fabric can be fixed to the decorative rail and moved laterally, for example by means of rings, hooks, sliders or tongues. For cleaning, the curtain fabric can be removed from the decorative rail and subsequently fixed to it again. A decorative rail is a straight rod, for example visible at its ends and between them. The decorative rail can be fixed to the building wall or to the ceiling by means of supports.

[0003]

The invention is based on the object of improving curtains of the type described above in view of the housing design.

This problem can be solved by providing the curtain of the type described above with an operating means for folding the curtain cloth in a wavy shape on the curtain cloth or wall hangings. Operating means for folding the curtain material in a wavy manner are known per se. However, according to the invention, this operating means is arranged on the curtain fabric. The curtain fabric can serve as a support for the operating means described above. It is attached to the back of the curtain fabric and is therefore invisible. Therefore, the technical means for corrugating the curtain fabric can be fixed invisible or substantially invisible. Furthermore, the curtain fabric can be fixed to the decorative rail in any conventional manner by various means, such as rings, hooks, sliders or eyelets. Compared with conventional curtains, the curtain according to the invention can additionally be folded in a wavy manner without decorative drawbacks. This creates important decorative possibilities. The curtain may also be used with conventional mold rails that have internal grooves. Therefore, a curtain that cannot be folded in a wavy shape can be converted into a wavy curtain. This is possible because the operating means for folding the wall hanging in a wavy manner is arranged on the wall hanging and not on the curtain rail.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the operating means includes:
The operating means thereby has a hook-and-loop fastener releasably secured to the curtain fabric. Furthermore, in order to clean the curtain fabric, the operating means can be removed from the curtain fabric particularly easily.

Further advantages of the invention are apparent from the dependent claims, the following description and the drawings.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a curtain 1 having a curtain fabric 2 which is fixed to rails 14 by a number of spaced loops 10 at an upper edge 11. The rail 14 is preferably free end 1 according to FIG.
4a, and according to FIG.
Or a rod fixed to the ceiling. Loop 10
For example, according to FIG. 5, the curtain fabric 2 is releasable so that it can be removed from the rail 14. Instead of the loop 10, the curtain fabric can be fixed to the rail 14 by hooks 15 or the like, for example according to FIG. Rail 14
Are spaced above and above the upper edge 11 and appear as decorative elements. Therefore, the rail 14 constitutes a decorative rail. To this, the curtain fabric 2 is releasably fixed and generally moved slightly laterally.

Preferably, the back surface 20 of the curtain material 2
(See FIG. 3), the operating means 3 for allowing the vertical folding of the curtain fabric 2 and the lifting of the lower edge 12.
Are arranged. The operation means 3 has a horizontally extending tape-shaped support tool 16 on which the hook-and-loop fastener 4 is fixed. The hook-and-loop fastener 4 allows the support 16 to be releasably secured to the corresponding nap tape 5. According to FIG. 1, the fluff tape 5 is fixed to the curtain fabric 2 on the back side in the region of the upper edge 11, for example sewn on.

According to FIG. 1, according to FIG. 1, a number of plate-like elements 6 are fixed, spaced apart from one another, to which one guide eyelet 6a is arranged. The element 6 is movably supported on a support 16 so that the guide eyelets 6a can each be directed towards the curtain 2 at the position of the drawstring 8. For this purpose, the turning element 7 is fixed to one end of the support 16, through which the drawstring 8 extends. The drawstring 8 is guided in the eyelets 6 a and the eyelets 9 and is fixed to the lower edge 12 of the curtain material 2. In the illustrated embodiment, a large number of drawstrings 8 are provided. In principle, a single drawstring 8 guided more or less meandering can be provided. From the turning element 7, the drawstring 8 is guided downwards to form the end 8a to which this drawstring 8 can be attached and pulled downwards due to the corrugated folding of the curtain fabric 2. . Instead of manual operation, motor operation can in principle also be considered here.

The operating means 3 is advantageously such that it has a front side 19
It is arranged on the back surface 20 of the curtain material 2 so as not to be seen from the outside. For this reason, the curtain 2 itself has the appearance of a conventional curtain, as shown in FIG. 4, for example. However, the decorative rail 14 is like a decorative element holder. Due to the incidence of light through the window 21, FIG.
The curtain fabric according to can be pulled up partially or completely. In this case, the drawstring 8 has its end 8a pulled downward. The turning element 7 has at the same time a braking action, so that after the release of the end 8a the curtain fabric remains, for example, at an adjusted height according to FIG. The braking action is released in a manner known per se, so that the curtain fabric 2 can be lowered due to the complete covering of the window 21.

The curtain 1'shown in FIG. 5 likewise has a decorative rail 14, a curtain fabric 2 and a drawstring 8 for the corrugated folding of the curtain fabric 2. Here, the drawstrings 8 are guided in the eyelets 20 which are placed on the support rails 21 with an interval therebetween and which are open upward. The drawstring 8 is connected to the curtain fabric 2 as shown in FIG. 1 and serves to fold it in a wavy shape.
The support rail 21 is formed by the loop 30 so that the decorative rail 14
It is fixed to. The loop 30 prevents the operating means 3 from releasing the curtain fabric 2 when the drawstring 8 is pulled too hard. An element 23 which fits into the support rail 21 from above connects the loop 30 with the support rail 21. As described above, the curtain material 2 is fixed to the decorative rail 14 by the loop 22 not shown here.

The curtain 1 ″ shown in FIG. 6 has a roller 25 which is rotatable about a horizontal axis 26 for the operation of the drawstring 8. As is apparent, roller 25
The surface of is parallel to the surface of the curtain material 2. Around the roller 25, an endless spherical chain 27, which is held taut by a weight 28, is guided. The roller 25 is rotated by pulling on one of the spherical chains 27, and the curtain fabric is folded or lowered in a wave shape by winding or unwinding the drawstring 8. Also in the case of this curtain 1 ″, the curtain fabric 2 is provided with a fluff tape 5 on which the support 16 is provided with the hook-and-loop fastener 4.
It is releasably fixed by. The curtain fabric 2 is
It is releasably fixed to the decorative rail 14 by means of a loop 10 and the operating means 3 ″ is releasably attached to the curtain fabric 2.

FIG. 7 shows a curtain 1 '''in which the operating means 3''has a drawstring 8 which has been turned 90 degrees by a drawstring brake 27 and has been lowered downwards. The curtain fabric 2 is attached to the end portion 8a protruding toward the corrugated folding or lowering. When the end portion 8a is pulled downward, the curtain material 2 is folded in a wavy shape. The string brakes 27 act in a manner known per se as brakes and prevent the corrugated curtain fabric 2 from falling downwards after the release of the end 8a. By pulling on the end 8a, the brake is released and the curtain fabric 2 can be lowered. The cord brake 27 is also mounted on the support 16 as the guide eyelet 28. Curtain material 2 is loop 1
It is releasably fixed to the decorative rail 14 by 0.

FIG. 8 shows the curtain 1a fixed by a number of rings 34 to a decorative rail mounted on the building wall. As described above, the curtain material 2a is a support 1 that is releasably configured as a mold rail.
It is fixed to 6a. The ring 34 is releasably fitted in a groove (not shown here) in the support 16. A large number of eyelets 35, of which only one is visible here, are fixed to the back surface of the curtain material 2a. In this, the drawstring 8 is moved and guided, and is obviously turned. The drawstring 8 is further passed through the lace brake 31. The lace brake has a removable cover 33. When the cover 33 is removed, the drawstring 8 can be released from the lace brake 31. The curtain material 2a is thus removed from the support 16a together with the drawstring 8,
Can be washed. After washing, the curtain fabric 2a is fixed to the support 16a, and the string 8 is housed in the string brake 31.

FIGS. 9 to 11 show a large number of flexible tongues 36, each of which has one end 36a rigidly connected to the curtain fabric 2 for fixing the curtain fabric 2 to the decorative rail 14, for example sewn on. 1 shows a curtain with. The other end 36b is a fixed part and is in a mounted state as shown in FIG.
The groove 3 of the support rail 21 opened upward by 1.
It has a hook 37 that is hung in the inside of the box 8. In an installation in which the decorative rail 14 is not removed from the building wall and does not have to be disassembled, the tongues 36 are positioned around the decorative rail 14 on the slightly elevated support rail 21 according to FIG. . At that time, according to FIG.
It can be introduced horizontally in the groove 38. During the lowering of the support rail 21 to the position shown in FIG. 11, the hook 37 pivots, in this case gripping the edge 39 of the support rail 21, so that the curtain is securely hooked on the decorative rail 14. When the support rails 21 are slightly lifted to remove the curtain, the hooks 37 can be easily removed by hand from the groove 38.

The hook 27 may be a fixed component of another construction, for example a notch element which is releasably fitted into the groove 38 from above.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a curtain according to the invention in which the operating means has been removed from the curtain fabric for drawing reasons.

2 is a schematic partial perspective view of the curtain according to FIG.

FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the curtain of the present invention according to FIG.

FIG. 4 is a view of a curtain according to the invention installed.

FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view of a curtain of the present invention according to a modification.

FIG. 6 is a schematic perspective view of a curtain of the present invention according to another modification.

FIG. 7 is a schematic partial perspective view of a curtain of the present invention according to another modification.

FIG. 8 is a schematic partial perspective view of a curtain according to another modification of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a schematic partial perspective view of a curtain of the present invention according to a modification.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of fixing the curtain to the decorative rod.

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of fixing the curtain to the decorative rod.

[Explanation of symbols]

1,1 ', 1 ", 1'", 1a curtain 2,2a curtain fabric 3 operation means Four-face fastener 5 fluff tape 6 plate-like elements 6a Guide eyelet 7 Turn elements 8 drawstring 9 eyelet 10 loops 11 Upper edge 12 Lower edge 14 rails 16,16a support 17 building wall 18 Support 19 front side 20 Back side (eyelet to dub) 21 Window (support rail-double) 22 loops 23 elements 25 roller 26 Horizontal axis 27 Spherical chain (string brake-double) 28 Weight (guide eyelet to dub) 30 loops 31 string brake 33 cover 34 ring 35 Eyelet 36 flexible tongue 37 hooks 38 grooves 39 edge

Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. Curtain material (2) and a curtain rail or curtain rod (14) to be mounted horizontally.
And fixing means (10, 10 arranged on the upper edge (11) of the curtain material (2) and thereby fixing the curtain material (2) to the curtain rail or curtain rod (14).
15) and an operating means (3) for operating the curtain material (2), the operating means (3) for folding the curtain material (2) in a wavy shape. , A rod-shaped support (1) releasably fixed to the upper edge of the curtain material (2)
6, 16a) having a curtain. 2. Curtain according to claim 1, characterized in that the operating means (3) are mounted substantially invisible on the back side (20) of the curtain fabric (2). 3. Curtain according to claim 1, characterized in that the support (16) is a mold rail made of metal, for example aluminum. 4. Curtain according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the operating means (3) are fixed to the curtain fabric (2) by means of hook-and-loop fasteners (4). 5. The operating means (3) has at least one drawstring (8) fixed to the lower edge (12) of the curtain fabric (2) and attached to the rolling element (7, 27). It is guided toward the lower side, The claim 1 to 4 characterized by the above-mentioned.
Curtains by either. 6. The turning element (7, 27) comprises a support (1).
6. It is fixed to one end of 6).
By curtain. 7. A support (16) is provided with a number of eyelets (6a) spaced apart from one another, to which a drawstring (8) is guided and turned downwards. A curtain according to claim 6, characterized in that 8. The support (16) is a curtain material (2).
Curtain according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it has hook-and-loop fasteners (4) for fixing the. 9. Curtain according to claim 8, characterized in that the support (6) extends over substantially the entire width of the curtain fabric (2). 10. Curtain according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the operating means (3) is fixed to the decorative rail (14) by a loop (30). 11. A cord brake (31) is fixed to the support (16, 16a), through which a drawstring (8) is provided.
Curtain according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that a) is penetrated, whereby this drawstring (8a) can be fixed at each corrugated position of the curtain fabric (2, 2a) respectively. 12. The drawstring (8a) is made of curtain cloth (2).
Curtain according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is guided by eyelets (35) fixed to a). 13. The lace brake (31) has a removable cover (33).
Curtain by 2. 14. Curtain material (2) with flexible tongues (3).
6) is fixed and it is at one end (36b)
Curtain according to claim 1, characterized in that it has a fixing part (37) which can be fixed in the groove (38) of the support (16a). 15. Curtain according to claim 14, characterized in that the fixing parts (37) are hooks.