US2012734A

US2012734A - Fixture for curtains, draperies, and the like

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Publication number: US2012734A
Application number: US753843A
Authority: US
Inventors: Howard M Steiner
Original assignee: H D TAYLOR Co
Current assignee: H D TAYLOR Co
Priority date: 1934-11-20
Filing date: 1934-11-20
Publication date: 1935-08-27
Anticipated expiration: 1952-08-27

Description

1935. H. M. STEINER 2,012,734

FIXTURE FOR CURTAINS, DRAPERIES AND THE LIKE Filed Nov. 20, 1954 Patented Aug. 27, 1935 UNITED STATES FIXTUBE'FOR CURTAINS, DRAPERIESi AND THE LIKE 'Howard M. Steiner, Buffalo, N. Y., assignor to H. D. Taylor Company, Bufialo, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 20, 1934, Serial No. 753,843 r '5 Claims. (01. 156-21) This invention relates to. certain new and useful improvements in devices or fixtures particulariy adapted for hanging or suspending curtains, draperies and the like from rods or poles.

t has for its chief object to provide a fixture of this character which has been designed for ready attachment to the heading of the curtain without resorting to sewing or the like and which eifectually holds the plaited heading in an upright position and at the same time assures a neat and natural hanging of the curtains or draperies from the supporting rod.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a drapery fixture which is simple, compact andinexpensive in construction, which may be easily applied to and removed from the drapery, and whichis so designed as to be concealed from view when in use.

In the accompanying drawing:-

. Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a curtain or drapery showing my invention applied thereto. Figure 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2-2, Figure 3. Figure 3 is a cross section taken on line 3-3, Figure 1. Figure 4 is a perspective view of the fixture.

Similar characters of reference indicate correv sponding parts throughout the several views.

This fixture, which is particularly intended for supporting curtains and draperies from rods and wherein such draperies have plaited headings extending above the rods, comprises a body having means thereon which are adapted to detachably engage or pierce the plaited portions of the heading to not only prevent their unfolding lengthwise of the rod but to also holdthe heading in an upstanding position over the rod, and means for connecting the body to the curtain rod.

Referring now to the drawing wherein a preferred embodiment of my invention is shownglil indicates a body having a plurality of tines or prongs ii, !2 projecting in one direction therefrom and adapted to face upwardly when in position on the curtain or drapery. The prongs H are disposed adjacent the ends of the body I!) and are comparatively long, while the other set of prongs i2 are disposed between and in substantially spaced parallel relation to the companion set of prongs l i, and are somewhat shorter than the latter. As shown in Figures 1 and 3, these prongs are adapted to pierce the inner adjoining folds I3 of the curtain or drapery I4, whereby the plaited portion of the drapery is held intact and eifectually held against separation. Furthermore, the prongs serve to reinforce the drapery heading against drooping or curling over. and maintain it in an upstanding position.

In addition to serving the above functions, this fixture also serves as a means for suspending the curtain or drapery from its supporting rod, and 1 to this end it has a downwardly-opening rod engaging hook l5 disposed substantially centrally thereof and in a plane rearwardly of the prongs H and I2.

By providing the long and short tines or prongs H and H, the insertion of the same into the plaited portion of the heading is facilitated, and

the longer prongs, which are located atthe outer sides of the fixture, serve to firmly and positively retain the plaited portion in its proper. position to insure'a neat and natural hanging of the curtains or draperies.- Furthermore, by constructing the fixture in this manner it is concealed fromv view when in use and may be readily withdrawn from the curtain'when desired.

I claim as my invention:--

1. A drapery fixture, comprising a body having a plurality-of substantially parallel prongs projecting therefrom for longitudinal engagement with the inner folds of a plaited drapery-heading,

some of said prongs being longer than the others,

and a rod-engaginghook projecting from said body. 2. A drapery fixture, comprising a body having a plurality of prongs projecting therefrom'for engagement with a drapery-heading, some of said prongs being longer than the others.

3. A drapery fixture; comprising a body having a plurality of substantially parallel prongs pro- 1 jecting therefrom in the plane of said body, theouter prongs being longer than the inner ones. i. A drapery fixture, comprising a bodyhaving prongs projecting in one direction from adjacent the ends thereof, and relatively shorter prongs disposed therebetweenin substantially spaced parallel relation thereto.

5. A drapery fixture, comprising a body having prongs projecting in one direction'from adjacent the ends thereof, relatively shorter prongs dis,- posed therebetween in substantially spaced parallel relation thereto, and means on said body for supporting the same from a rod.

HOWARD M. STEINER.