US1930430A - Fastener for curtain tie-backs, etc. - Google Patents

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Ocfi. 10, 1933. H. M. STEINER 1,930,439

FASTENER FOR CURTAIN TIE-BACKS, ETC

Filed Nov. 12, 1932 Bren/for;

Patented Oct. 10, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Howard M. Steiner, Bufifalo, N. Y., assignor to H. D. Taylor Company, Buffalo, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 12, 1932 Serial No. 642,397

1 Claim.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in curtain fixtures and more particularly to a fixture designed for use in connection with the tie-backs of curtains, draperies and the like.

As now marketed, tie-backs are provided with supporting rings which are permanently sewed to the ends of the tie-backs for the purpose of suspending the same in loop-like fashion from the window frame.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a non-sew-on supporting fixture or ring for curtain tie-backs, including means for readily and conveniently detachably connecting the ring to the tie-back, and thereby eliminate the expense and the time consumed incident to the sewing on of the rings to the tie-back and make it possible to market curtains and their tiebacks at more moderate prices.

Another object is the provision of a tie-back fixture which simple, compact and inexpensive in construction, and which permits the ready adjustment of the curtain or drapery relative to the suspension ring.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a fragmentary front view of a drapery showing my improvement applied to the tie-back thereof. Fi ure 2 is an enlarged perspective view of an end of the tie-back with the improved fixture mounted thereon. Figure 3 is a detached, perspective view of the tie-back fixture. Figure 4 is a similar View of a modified form of the invention.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring now to the embodiment of the invention shown in Figures 13, inclusive, 1o indicates a curtain or drapery and 11 the tie-back which is employed for holding the curtain in a more or less draped position at one side of the window. The fixture or fastener by which the tie-back is suspended in a looped fashion from the window frame, preferably consists of aringlike suspension element 12 adapted to be placed over a hook applied to the window frame, and an attaching stem or shank 13 for detachably anchoring the ring-like element to the end of the tie-back.

This anchoring stem or shank is provided at its inner end with an attaching eye l l which engages the ring-like element 12 and thereby permits the anchoring stem to move bodily circumferentially about the ring or to swing laterally relatively thereto. At its opposite end, the anchoring stem is bent upon itself to provide a pin or spur 15 which is adapted to engage or pierce the end of thetie-back in the manner shown in 1 Figure 2, the pointed end of such pin facing the axis of the suspension ring, so that in suspending the tie-back the direction of pull is substantially in a straight line from the ring axis with a portion of the material of the tie-back lodged in the looped end of the anchoring stein.

By constructing the fixture in this manner, the same can be readily applied to and removed from the ends of the tie-back, thereby permitting the ready adjustment of the tie-backs to obtain the proper and desired hanging of the curtains or draperies.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Figure 4, the fixture is made with the sus- 30 pension ring and anchoring pin in one piece, the numeral 16 indicating the ring and 17 the pin for detachably anchoring the fixture to the end of the tie-back, with the pointed end of the pin A tie-back fixture for curtains, draperies and the like, comprising a ring-like suspension element, and an attaching member radiating from said element and including a shank having an eye at one end engaging said suspension ele- 5 ment and a reversely-bent pin portion facing said element and detachably engageable with the tie- Y back.

HOWARD M. STEINER.

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