US1736086A - Puffed-valance retainer - Google Patents

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Nov. 19, 19 29; MADSEN, JR 1,736,086

PUFFED VALANCE RETAINER Filed June 21, 1928 Fatented Nov. 19, 1929 UNETED stares ABNER L. MADSEN, JR...

PUFFED-VALANCE RETAIR'ER Application filed June '21,

introduce a novel tie device to keep the puffs of the valance in the given form. A further object of the invention is to incorporate in the novel tie device the cap and cor-d grou effects incident to tassel ornaments used wit valances.

A final, but nevertheless important object of the invention is to construct the novel tie I device with utmost simplicity. I

WVith the above objects in vlew andany others that may suggest themselves in the.

specification and claims to follow, a better understanding of the invention may be had by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which I I V Fig. 1 is a fragmental view of a typical valance, showing a series of pufis or folds formed at two points and indicating the novel tie device; I I

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of the valance at the puffed area, showing the application of the tie device; i Y

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cap ornament referred to, showing a fragment of the tie device applied; and

Fig. 4 is a similar view, takenfrom the rear, and indicating a modification. In the art of forming valances with a periodical puffed effect, the series of puffs or folds at each point has until the present time I been secured by stitching after the material has been shirred to form the puffs. Each puff had to be stitched separately by hand, so that considering a valance with many puffed areas, the process of forming these areas has entailed much time and labor. It has been customary to provide certain ornamental effects in front of the valance, such as tassels, I rosettes and the like, and I have incorporated in the use of the novel tie device theeifects of a tassel cap or ornament and of a tassel cord group. r The novel tie device is mainly for'the purpose of keeping the puffs or folds of the valance in proper relation and shape. In the construction of the tie device, I use a base .easily threaded.

1928 Serial no. 287,309.

Mm IE E-7Y or CHICAGQILLENOISL essrenon or ONE-HALF To onnier e. snnnnornor cnicnc 'j tmmors V knot 5 andfcord g roupfi of a standard or artificial tassel. ,Thus in the caseiof an artificial tassel, I construct the effect of the knot and cord group from a sheet of pressed metal or other suitable material. From the knot I produce an extension inthe form ofa long pin 7 which constitutes the main element of the tie device. As indicated in Fig. 2, I pass the pin 7 whose free end is pointed as indicated at'8 upwardly through the pufi's or folds 90f the valance, as they are shaped by the worker, and when the top of the pufl series has been reached, I pass the pin through an offset portion 10 of the cap ornament 11, an'd'finally through the'upper portion of the valance toward therear side thereof, as indicated at 12, then foldingor bending the end of the pin down as shown at 13. The

offset 10 is struck from the-medial portion of the cap ornament 11 simply toprovidea Pass Sa e and hold for thepin 7.

he body portion of the pin is pressed a series of crnn'ps or kinks 7 spaced approximately as the puffs 9, and these crimps are,

used to define the positions of and serve as supports for the'pufi s. v r

It .will be seen that the, pin 7 constitutes a tie device of utmost simplicity fortheseries .ofpuffs or folds of the valance'.-. Itis'not adifficult wmatterto thread the pin through end portion of. the pin through theoffsetof r the series of folds as thelatter aremade, and

once this has been done, the passing ofthe,

the ornament 11 provides a reinforcement therefat; and bending such end portion through the I valance I and 1 down anchors it to the valance. f

vice, employing a-plain orf uncrimped pin 14.

Where'the valance "is of light or fairlystiffw material this form should serve. the purpose, bemg at thesame t1me less costly and more WVhile the above described tie device is a mechanically eflicient structure, it will be ment for the tassel knot and-cord group by Figure 4 shows a modified form 'ofthe deseen that-itembodies as well the cap orna- I way'of ornamentation' Thus, wh'en the valanoe is viewed from the front, the"pin 7 is perfectly invisible, and no mechanical ele ment is suggested by the appearance of the puff series to indicate that'such an element supports it in shape. -But the cap element and tassel incidentsare generally visible, and

the effect is simple and pleasing.

Iclaim:- p r '1. VAiretainer for the succession of folds in a puffed valance, comprising a pin adapted to be passed through such folds, and said pin having irregularities adapted to" be posiv. a tioned between the folds to separate the same.

2. A retainer for the substantially vertical succession of folds in a puffed vvalance; compointed end of the pin.-

prising apinadapted to be passed through a such folds, and'said pin having ledge formattions' a'dapted to be positioned between the foldsto support the same. f

*3. "A 'reta-iner for the series of folds in a pufied valance, comprising a pin having a shoulder adjacent one end and a point at theother adapted to be pass'edthrough such folds from one end of the series, and an exposed ornamental plate at the opposite end of the series of folds and provided with means at its back to receive and anchor'the 4'. A retainer for the series of folds ina puffed valance, comprising a pin adapted to be passed through such folds from one end of the series, and a plate at the opposite end V is of the series of 'folds and provided with means to anchor the corresponding end of the pin,-such end of the pin'bei'ng adapted to be 7 extended from the plate through the valance and to be deflected to form a hook engageable in said anchoring means of the plate.

' 5. The combination set forth in claim 4, 7'

and said plate being disposed against the outer surface of one ofsaid folds to conceal the end of the pin. 6. 'The'jconibination-in a puffed valance having a series of successiveffolds, a pin in- 7 'sertible, through such folds and said pin be-- V ingformed with a series of offset bends adapted toengage said folds to separate the same. p V. i7. The. combination in a puffed valance having a series of. successive folds, a pin intachable adjacent the pointed end of the pin -to hold thesame in place. 1 V

sertible through such folds, and'vmeans' ata In testimony whereof I ,affix my signature. I H "A-BNER L; MADSEN, JR.-

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