US1698796A - Curtain hook - Google Patents

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Patented Jan. 15, 1929.

CARL HERIBERT HOLMSTRGM, 0F J'OHANNEBERG, SOIDRA VAGEN, GOTTENBORG, SWEDEN.

CURTAIN HOOK.

Application filed March 8,' 1927, Serial No.

This invention relates to means for the suspension of curtains, valances or similar hangings or appliances. The object of this invention is to provide an easily handled implement for the sliding attachment of such hangings upon rods or lines. along which the hang ing can he slid for closing and opening.

Another object of this invention is to provide an implement of the class mentioned, which is cheap in manufacture.

A further object is an implement of the said class, which is reliable in operation especially so as to secure the suspension of the hanging and prevent its falling down even then, if the operator is rather rough and negligible, when he slides the hanging along the supporting rod or line.

Further features of the improved implement will be clearly described below with ref erence to the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing Fig. 1 represents one embodiment of the invention in operative position,

Fig. 2 the same embodiment when inoperative,

Fig. 3 another embodiment of the invention in operative position,

Fig. 4 the last-mentioned invention when inoperative,

Fig. 5 is a view from above of the embodiment illustratedin Figs. 3 and 4 showing the implement in operative position,

Fig. 6 is a similar view as in Fig. 5 showing the implement when inoperative,

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a curtain suspended on a rod with means of the improved implement.

A flexible and somewhat elastic metal strip such as a wire is bent into a loop 1. the one end of which is extended downwardly so as to form a clasp 2 with the free end 3 preferably sharpened similar to the point of a pin. The spot of the wire, where the loop 1 goes over into the clasp 2, is bent rather sharp so as to form an elbow 6.

The rear end of the loop 1 is bent to a hook 4 in the form of the letter 8, having an inner sling 5 and an outer sling 7.

Owing to the elasticity of the metal wire the implement, having its initial shape illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4, whereby the loop 1 as well as the clasp 2 are open, can be compressed as it concerns the loop so far, that the S- shaped hook 4 can be laid around the wire with the sling 5 embracing the elbow 6. In

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this posit-ion the free end 3 of the clasp 2 can he forced into the outer sling 7 of the hook 4 and secured therein equal to the end of a safety pin.

Figs. 1 and 3 show this position of the implement, whereby the loop 1 as well as the clasp 2 are closed. The elasticity in the clasp 2 keeps the end 3 thereof forcibly in the sling 7 of the hook 4, and the elasticitv in the loop 1 .keeps. the sling 5 of the hook 4 forcibly pressed in the elbow 6, this last-mentioned force being increased by the press from the clasp end 3 in the hook sling 7. The consequence is, that neither the clasp 2 nor the loop 1 can be opened nonintentionally but only through. a positive compressing force applied to the clasp end 3 to release said end from the hook sling 7 and after that operation a'further positive compressing force applied to the hook provided end of the loop 1 so as to release the hook sling 5 from the elbow 6.

Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate clearly the S-shape of the hook 4 aswell as how the sling 5 embraces the elbow 6 and the clasp end 3 is held in the sling 7. A

The embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 has the plane of the loop 1 and that of the clasp 2 substantially coincident or parallel, while the embodiment shown in Figs. 3-6 has the plane of the clasp 2 substantially square to that of the loop 1.

en in open position as in Figs. 2, 4 an 6 the clasp 2 by means of its sharpened end 3 becomes like a pin attached to the fabric the curtain 10 in Fig. 7which is to be suspended, and since a reasonable number of such implements have been applied their loops 1 are opened up so far, that they can be suspended either directly upon the rod 80 according to the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or indirectly upon interposed wooden or metal rings 9 in accordance with the embodiment shown in Figs. 37. The first-ment-ioned embodiment is to be preferred, when it concerns rather narrow rods such as for instance a metal tube 80, while the second embodiment is more convenient in combination with bigger rods 8 of wood, though in the drawing the tube 80 and the rod 8 have been designed with the same diameter.

To suit the first-mentioned method of suspension the plane of the loop 1 and that of the clasp 2 may be coincident or substantially paralleh while to suit the last-mentioned suspending method the planes of loop and clasp may be substantially square for reasons clearly understood by aid 01"" theFigs. 1 and 3 respectively.

Having suspended the loop 1 upon the rod 8 or 80 the free loop end with the hook 4; moves to catch the elbow G with its inner sling 5, and after that the free clasp end 8 becomes inserted into the outer sling 7 of the Shook 4:, and the implement is locked or secured upon the rod 8 (80) as well as into the hanging 10 and cannot be removed but by means of a positive releasing of the clasp end 3 from the hook 4.

Having thus described my invention and how it is to be performed, what I claim as new and want to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A curtain suspending device formed from a single piece of flexible and somewhat elastic metal wire, comprising an open clasp adapted for engagement with a curtain, an

open loop continuing from the clasp at substantially right angles to the plane of the clasp and adapted for engagement with a supportingmember, and a doubly bent member continuing from the opposite end of the loop and overlying the clasp and forming two hooks for respectively embracing the free end of the clasp and the metal wire at the juncture-of the clasp withthe loop for keeping said clasp and said loop closed and preventing their accidental disengagement from the curtain and the supporting member.

2. A curtain suspending device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the double-hook element is of S-shaped configuration thereby providing a pair of engaging slings, substantially as and. for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have alfi'xed my signature.

CARL HERIBERT HOLMSTRCM.

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