US1229672A - Portiere-holder. - Google Patents

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HELENE L. SWENEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PORTIRE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Continuation of application Serial No. 130,257, filed November 8, 1916. This application led May 14, 1917. Serial No. 168,348.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HELENE L. SWENEY,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Portiere-Holders, of which the following description in connection with the accompanying drawing is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to a device for application to a portire, curtain or similar article presenting a hook by which the portiere, curtain or other article may be suspended from a suitable support such as the usual curtain rings upon a curtain rod.

The object of the invention is to provide a device which is self-attachable to the portiere, curtain or other article and which therefore requires no sewing or fastening to hold it in place.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character with the. hook portion alone of which shall be visible at the upper edge of the portiere.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the body or frame of the device shall be inserted within the upper folded edge of the portire and shall lie concealed in the fold.

The object of the .invention is to provide a device of this character with an extended straight upper edge upon which the fold of the portiere rests and with a pointed hook readily insertible through the material of the portire. These and other objects of the invention will appear more fully from the accompanying description and drawings and will be particularly pointed out in the claims. j

rlhe drawings show the invention in its preferred forms for supporting a portiere on an ordinary rod provided with curtain rings.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective showing a curtain rod, rings and portiere suspended there from by the aid of the device embodying this invention;

Fig. 2 illustrates a form of the invention in place in the portire, a portion of the portiere being shown and one fold being cut away at the medial line of the fold;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device shown in Figs. 2 and 3;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of another form of the device;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a third form of the device. n The device as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4e is formed from a suitable piece of wire, the size and flexibility of which is determined by the weight of the portiere, curtain or article to be supported. It should. be of sufficient strength to maintain its shape under ordinary conditions of use and of sutlicient flexibility to enable it to be bent into the required shape.

The device presents as its body portion a thin fiat frame with an extended upper straight edge 1, adapted to lie within the folded edge of the portiere. A hook 2 upstands from the central portion lof the straight edge 1 and is of just sufficient size to pass through and project above the folded edge of the material 3 of the portiere and enable it to engage the device by which it is supported as, for example, the usual eye 4 on a usual curtain ring 5. This hook at its free end is bent slightly outward as shown at G and is sharpened to a dull point so that it may readily penetrate the goods of which the article to be supported is formed and without tearing or injuring the goods.

In the form of the invention illustrated the device is formed of a single piece of wire. This wire is bent to present a thin flat skeleton frame portion having the extended straight upper edge 1, the rounded ends 7 and the lower edge 8, all the parts lying in the same plane. Each end of the wire forming the frame is bent back toward the center and in this form of the invention the bent back portions form the extended straight upper edge 1. lhere the ends of the wire intersect they are twisted together as shown at 9, and one end after being thus twisted is extended upwardly and bent into the form of the upstanding hook 2 which preferably projects in a plane at right angles to the plane of the skeleton frame portion. y

the ends of the wire are bent back toward the center of the frame and in the plane thereof to form the lower edge of the frame. These ends are then twisted together at 11, one end preferably being also twisted about the upper edge 10 and extending upwardly and bent into the form of the upstanding hook 2 as before.

A third form of the invention is illustrated in Fig. 6. In this case the extended upper straight portion 12 of the thin flat skeleton frame portion rests at the middle upon one extreme end 13 of the wire. This end 13 with the other end of said wire are each bent back toward the center of the frame and in the plane thereof to form the lower edge of the frame and then the ends are twisted together as illustrated to bring the extreme end 13 directly under the upper edge portion 12 and then one end is extended upwardly and bent into the form of the up standing hook 2 as before.

The manner of use of the device will now be apparent. Then the portiere as at 14 in F ig. 1 has one end folded over as at 15 the hook 2 is inserted from the inside through the folded edge and drawn through until the extended straight portion of the thin flat skeleton frame lies against the inside of the folded edge while the thin at frame of the device lies flat between the two layers of the portiere. Thus the entire device is concealed from view with the exception of the hook alone which projects above the portiere and is readily insertible in the device by which it is supported. It is unnecessary to attach the device by sewing or otherwise to the portire. As many of them are used as are necessary and as required by the article to be supported.

If full length of portire is desired the portion 15 of the portiere may be a simple narrow turned over edge or hem and after the holders of this invention are placed 1n position may be sewed down to the mainV layer of the portiere in the usual manner.

This application is a continuation of my prior application No. 130,257 filed November s, 191e.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A portiere holder formed from a single piece of wire bent to present a thin fiat skeleton frame portion having an extended straight upper edge, each end of said wire bent back toward the center of said frame and in the plane thereof, the said ends being twisted together and one end projecting above the straight upper edge in the form of an upstanding hook adapted to penetrate, and project above, the folded edge of the portiere, with the frame portion lying within the folded edge of, and sup-porting, the portiere.

2. A portire holder presenting a thin flat frame portion with an extended straight upper edge to lie within the folded edge of, and support, the portiere, and a hook upstanding from the central portion of said edge adapted to penetrate and project above the folded edge.

3. A portiere holder presenting a thin flat skeleton frame portion with curved ends and an extended straight upper edge to lie within the folded edge of, and support, the portire, and a hook upstanding from the central portion of said edge adapted to penetra-te and project above the folded edge.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

HELENE L. SWENEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, JJ. C.

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