US1472933A

US1472933A - Portiebe

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Publication number: US1472933A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1923-11-06
Anticipated expiration: 1940-11-06

Description

A. PASZKIEWICZ PQRTIERE Filed July 3, 1.922

Patented Nov. 6, 1923.

ANTONY PASHIEWIGZ, OF MOUNT CARMEL, PENNSYLVANIA.

PORTIERE.

Application filed July 3, 1922. Serial No. 572,373.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONY PASZKIE- wroz, a citizen of United States, residing at Mount Carmel, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portieres, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to portieres, having more particular reference to portieres of the type composed of a number of individual ornamental strings.

The invention has for an object to provide a novel form of construction for the various individual strings comprising the portiere.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, references will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawings is a face view of a portiere constructed according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevational view of one of the strings.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the blanks.

In constructing the individual strings of my improved portiere I employ, in forming the main links 10 thereof, a series of tri-.

angular strips such as 10', preferably of wall paper. These strips are rolled up with their bases innermost to form the said links, which latter are thus relatively thick at the centre and taper toward their ends. Passing longitudinally through these links are cords 12 whereby the various elements of the strings are connected together, these cords also passing through spacer elements located between the main links. These spacer elements are in the form of short glass tubes of which there are five between each pair of the main links, four of these tubes 13, forming a rectangle having opposite corners engaged with the ends of the links, while the fifth 14 extends transversely to the string as a whole, between the other two corners of the rectangle.

For securing the parts together a suitable length of the cords 12 is passed through the link 10, through the adjacent pair of tubular glass elements 18 at each end of the links 10, and through the transverse tube 14 at each end, the ends of the cord being preferably knotted together as at 15, at a point within the link, while a second knot 16 is also formed in the cord 12 at the end of the link so as to prevent the cord sliding and exposing its joined ends 15. As will be understood. the transverse tubes 14 each receive a pair of the cords 12 and thus form the connecting medium between the different sections of the string.

The cord passing through the top one of the link 10 may be engaged with a screw eye 18 which is adapted to be screwed into an ordinary curtain pole 19 which may be supported in the usual manner.

In constructing the different strings comprising my improved portiere the various sections are formed by first stringing the 7 glass tubes on the cords and knotting the ends of the latter, and then rolling the paper strips around the cords, gluing the difl'erent turns of the paper upon one another, and then covering the completed link with a coat of varnish.

My improved portiere, as thus constructed, is of small cost, while at the same time it presents a novel and exceptionally attractive and pleasing appearance.

Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. A portiere comprising a number of chain-like strips having links formed with longitudinal passages, transversely extending tubular element-s interposed between the various links and forming in part the means for connecting the links to one another, and looped cords passed through said passages and through the said tubular elements to join the said links into a chainlike structure.

2. A portiere comprising a number of chain-like strips having links formed with longitudinal passages, transversely extending tubular elements interposed between the various links and forming in part the means 6 for connecting the links to one another,

and looped cords passed through said passages and through the said tubular elements to join the said links into a chain-like structure, the cords which pass through a pair of adjacent links passing also through a common interposed tubular element.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

ANTONY PASZKIEVVICZ.