US1750816A - Curtain confiner - Google Patents

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March 18, 1936. c, RQGES 1,759,815

` CURTMN CONFINEP Filed May 28, 1929 Patented Mar; 1s, 1930 UNITED STATES-- CATHERINE ROGEBSOF TAUNTON, ILBSACHUSETTS courant cannula' appunti and any as, 199e. sensi lo. seam.

The object of this invention is to provide means for confining a portion of a shirred curtain in a predetermined position relative to a window with which the curtain is assol ciated, whether the curtain be of full length and is secured tothe upper end of the casing and formed to depend therefrom to the lower end,'or is a semi-curtain or overdrape, secured at its upper edge to the upper end of the casforming a part of this specication,-

Figure 1 is a side view of a window provide' ed with two full length curtains and a semicurta-in or overdrape, and confining means for each of said curtams. Figure 2 is a side view of the coniiner associated with the full length curtains shown by Figure 1. Figure 3 isa section' on line 3*-3 of Figure 1. f Figure 4 is a section on line 4--4 of Figure Figure 5 is a section on line 5-4-5 ci Figure 2;

Figure 6 is' a section on line 6-6 of Figure 2. Y

Figure 7 is a perspective view of the hinge socket member hereinafter described.

Figure 8 is a perspective View of the impaling rod hereinafter described, and the hinge pintle-member thereon.

Figure 9 shows inperspective an enlargement of a portion of the overdrape shown o by Figure 1, and one of the conners associated therewith.

Figure 10 is a section on line 10--10 of v Figure 9.

Figure 11 is an enlargement of a portion of Figure 10.

adjunct fora full length Figure 12 is a fragmentary sectional view similar to a portion of' Figure 10, showing a modification.

Figure 13 isa sectional view, showing another modification.

AThe same reference characters indicate the same parts in all ofthe figures.

I will first describethe confiner associated with a full len h curtain and shown by Figures 1 to 8 inc usive.

12 designates a full length curtain which may be a member of a pair of curtains shown by Figure 1, each curtain being attached. at its upper end inany suitable manner to the top cfa window casmgll, and formed to extend to the bottom of t e casing, each curtain and the coniner associatedtherewith being similar in all essential respects to the other,. so that 'a description of one will suiiice.

l The .coniiner in this embodiment of the invention is adapted to hold the curtain either in the position shown at the left, or ,thatshown at the rightin Figure 1 thelower portion of the curtain in one case hangin beside the lower portion of the window, an in the 7 other case, removed'from ythe window and .v hanging beside the lower portion of thecasing and an adjacent portion of the wall.

lTheconfiner comprises a rod'14, adapted to be inserted in or thrust through the folds 12a constituting a shirred portion of the curtain 12, as shown by Figures 3, 5, and 6, the rod having at its outer end a penetrating point 14 (Figure 6) and a stop 15 detachably se- 8o cured to the pointedend'portion and adapted v to prevent an end fold of the curtain from slipping from the outer end of the rod, the stop 15 being preferably a nut engaged with a screw-three on'the pointed end portion. 85 The opposite'end of the rod is provided with a hinge pintle member adapted to turn in a hinge socket member fixed tothe casing, so that the confiner and curtain may be adjusted to partly cover the lower portion of 90.

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CATHERINE ROGERS.

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