US2238559A

US2238559A - Window curtain

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Publication number: US2238559A
Application number: US374353A
Authority: US
Inventors: John J Farley
Original assignee: MODERN CURTAIN CO Inc
Current assignee: MODERN CURTAIN CO Inc
Priority date: 1941-01-14
Filing date: 1941-01-14
Publication date: 1941-04-15
Anticipated expiration: 1958-04-15

Description

J. J. FARLEY WINDOW CURTAIN April 15, 1941.

Jan. 14, 1941 Filed Patented Apr. 15, 194i WINDOW CURTAIN John J. Farley, Rutherford, N. J., assignor to Modern Curtain Co. Inc., Boston, Mass, a corporation of Massachusetts Application January 14, 1941, Serial No. 374,353

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a window curtain and more particularly to a window curtain section such as usually constitutes one-half of a complete tie-back window curtain; Its objective, generally stated, is to improve the construction and appearance of the head-end portion of the curtain.

In accordance with the present invention, the head-end portion of the curtain section comprises two superposed layers of curtain fabric held together in the desired relationship by stitches extending along spaced parallel lines from one side edge of the curtain section to the other and defining therebetween a rod-receiving tunnel and an elongated piece of curtain fabric stitched tosaid superposed layers immediately above the rod-receiving tunnel, such piece being of a length much greater than the span or width.

of the section but being gathered along its line of stitching to said superposed layers to afford a ruffled effect and hanging in front of the rodreceiving tunnel to shroud or conceal the latter. The curtain section of the present invention is thus characterized by its simplicity and by its economy of curtain fabric while at the same time presenting the desired attractive and full appearance at its head-end portion.

With the foregoing and other features and objects in view, the present invention will now be described in further detail with particular reference to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational View of a curtain section embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a back elevational view of the headend portion.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section through the head-end portion on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Figs. 4 and 5 show the relative widths of the shroud piece and the head-end portion of the curtain section, respectively, before they are sewed together.

The curtain section shown in Fig. l as being tied back with the tie-back member Il may be made of marquisette or similar sheer curtain fabric and may comprise the usual trim or edging l2. The upper or head-end portion of the curtain may be formed up of two layers of fabric,

as by folding down on itself the upper end portion of the section and stitching the edge portion in place by a line of stitches 13 running from one side edge to the other. The top or folded edge portion is preferably again folded onto itself to quadruple layer thickness preparatory to stitching thereto by two lines of stitches l4 running parallel to the line of stitches [3 an elongated strip of curtain fabric 15, which hangs or drapes down in front of the rod-receiving tunnel l6 defined between the rows of stitches l3 and H. The strip I is preferably of a length much Wherefore, in stitching the strip l5 to the curtain section In, it may be gathered, as shown, to afford the desired ruflled effect. In other words, the head-end portion of the curtain section may be made to present a fullness appearance heretofore realized only with a curtain section in which much more curtain fabric has been employed in the width or body of the section. It is preferable that the strip l5 have a ruflied cornice or upper zone portion I5a over and above the rod-receiving tunnel l6, thereby creating the desired frilled or ornamental edging at the upper edge of the section, which is viewable from the back face of the section, as shown in Fig. 2, as well as from the front face of the section as a continuation of the frilled valance piece serving also as a shroud for the rod-receiving tunnel and thus obscuring the rod from front view, as is desired. 'While not limited thereto, it is usually preferable that the shroud piece I 5 be of a width, as shown, several times that of the rod-receiving tunnel [6, say, three to four times such width.

It is to be understood that the embodiment of the invention herein illustrated and described is subject to change or modification while falling within the purview of the instant invention as defined by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a window curtain section, a head-end portion adapted to be hung from a rod and comprising superposed layers of curtain fabric held together by stitches extending along spaced parallel lines from one side edge of the section to the other and defining therebetween a rod-receiving tunnel; and an elongated piece of curtain fabric stitched to said superposed layers above said rod-receiving tunnel, said piece being of a length much greater than the span of said section but being gathered at its line of stitching to said superposed layers to afford a rullied effect and hanging in front of said rod-receiving tunnel to shroud the latter.

2. In a window curtain section wherein the upper end portion is folded down on itself and comprises spaced parallel lines of stitches extending from one side edge of said section to the other and defining therebetween a rod-receiving tunnel, an elongated piece of curtain fabric stitched to said upper end portion above said rodreceiving tunnel, said piece being of a length much greater than the span of said section but being gathered at its line of stitching to said head-end portion to afford a rufiled cornice above said rod-receiving tunnel and also a rufiled shroud in front of said rod-receiving tunnel.

JOHN J. FARLEY.