US2622675A - Draping means for curtains - Google Patents

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Dec. 23, 1952 B. JlTOMlR DRAPING MEANS FOR CURTAINS 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 Filed Jan. 6, 1951 INVENTOR. BERNARD JITOMIR Dec. 23, 1952 B. JlTOMlR DRAPING MEANS FOR CURTAINS 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 Filed Jan. 6, 1951 INVENTOR. BERNARD Jlwol nR Patented Dec. 23, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DRAPING MEANS FOR CURTAINS Bernard Jitomir, Brooklyn, N. Y., asslgnor to Howard Curtain 00., Inc., New York, N. Y.

Application January 6, 1951, Serial No. 204,743

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in curtain and drapery tie backs; and, more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel and valuable combined curtain or the like and an auxiliary addition not only capable of being readily attached to and detached from said ourtain or the like but also adapted to be variously adjusted relative to said curtain or the like to obtain as desired, and for permanent maintenance for as long as desired, any desired one of a large number of different possible draping effects incidental to said addition acting as a tie back.

According to the present invention, said curtain or the like, below for convenience called the main member, permanently carries a plurality of fastening and gathering instrumentalities arranged so as to be spaced along a line, this line desirably extending diagonally across said main member; said addition is in the form of an elongated fiexible structure in the nature of a strap or belt; and said instrumentalities, for coaction with parts carried by or portions of the said addition, are all of the same kind, as, for example, male or female snap fastener elements, or eyeleted holes or other apertures.

Pursuant to one now favored way of carrying out the invention, said parts carried by said addition are all snap fastener elements of the same kind; that is, said parts are, for instance, female snap fastener elements, if the aforesaid instrumentalities carried by said main member are also snap fastener elements, but, for instance, male snap fastener elements.

Pursuant to another highly satisfactory way of carrying out the invention, said instrumentalities carried by said main member are eyeleted holes or other apertures arranged so as to be spaced along a line extending across said main member, and, for interlacing through the openings provided at said eyelets or the like, the said addition is a flexible cord or the like, with, therefore, each of the portions of the length of said cord. where said portion is laced through one of said openings, constituting the aforesaid portions of the addition each for coaction with an instrumentality of said main member, to wit, one of said openings.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 elevationally shows a main member in accordance with the invention; the same comprising one of a pair of window curtains, in spread flat condition, and looking at the side thereof which would face the room interior.

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of an auxiliary addition as aforesaid for said main member; looking at the side thereof which would face the room interior.

Fig. 3 similarly shows said addition, but looking at the side thereof which would face said main member.

Fig. 4 illustrates, in connection with a window opening, the curtain of Fig. 1, with said addition affixed thereto, and with the parts adjusted to obtain a certain drape effect in the curtain; but before being engaged with the hook; this view also fragmentarily showing, at the left, the companion curtain to the one shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary enlarged reproduction of a portion of Fig. 1, to show stitchings not feasible to be indicated in Fig. 1, and to make clearer other details of construction.

Fig. 6 is a rear elevational view of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of the tape secured to the main member taken across one of the snap fasteners, taken on the line i--! of Fig. 5.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of the tape secured to the main member but taken at a point between adjacent snap fasteners on the line 88 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary enlarged reproduction of a portion of Fig. 3, to show stitchings not feasible to be indicated in Fig. 3, and to make clearer other details of construction.

Fig. 10 is a rear elevational view of Fig. 9.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on the line I lI I of Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a diagrammatic view, assumed to be taken on the line l2l2 of Fig. 4 of the possible arrangement of pleatings of the curtain of Figs. 1 and 4, that is, an arrangement of pleatings for effecting such a drape of said curtain as attempted to be indicated pictorially in Fig. 4.

Fig. 13 is a perspective view of a fixture for use at a side of a window frame, in a placement such as that indicated at the right in Fig. 4.

Fig. 14 is a view like Fig. 1, but showing a modified curtain in accordance with the invention, together with its aforesaid auxiliary addition; with said addition, correspondingly modified, and in place on the curtain.

Fig. is a fragmentary enlarged reproduction of portions of Fig. 14, to show titchings not feasible to be indicated in Fig. 14, and to make clearer other details.

Fig. 16 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line |6| 6 of Fig. 15.

The draping means for curtains, according to the first form of the present invention shown in Figs. 1 to 13, is applied to a window curtain having at its top a tubular portion 2|. A curtain rod 22 is removably extended through the tubular portion 2|. Also as this curtain is shown, a net trimming 23 is applied along a side and along the bottom of the curtain, and in stitching said trimming in place it is shirred as at 24 to effect a ruiiling thereof. Also, a net trimming 25 is similarly stitched in place, and so as to establish a shirring 26, for suspension of this trimming 25, rufiled, from below the tubular portion 2|.

The trimming 23 when present would desirably extend heightwise of the curtain along the side of the latter to be intermediate the sides of a window opening at which said curtain and a companion one are both to be hung; and the trimming when present would desirably be at the side of the curtain to face the room interior.

As the instrumentalities aforesaid, the curtain 20 is shown as indirectly carrying a plurality of male snap fastener elements 2?, these being uniformly spaced along and directly secured to a tape 28 having a straight line extension across the curtain 20 and secured to the latter in said extension. Said straight line is one crossing the curtain diagonally, from a low point at the curtain side having the trimming 23 to a high point on the opposite side of the curtain. Consequently, the length of said tape secured to the curtain is considerably greater than the width of the latter.

The male snap fastener elements 21 are all attached to the tape 23 by two lines of stitching 29, see particularly Figs. 7 and 8; and the tape is attached to the curtain 25 by two lines of stitching 30. Note from Figs. '7 and 8 that the tape 28 is formed from a strip twice folded over on itself to provide substantially all over its width a two-ply member.

The aforesaid auxiliary addition, or tie back auxiliary as it may also be called, is designated 3|; the same incorporating a main band structure 32, having a plurality of female snap fastener elements 38 directly carried by and equidistantly spaced along a tape 34 and covered opposite the outer ends of their socket establishing projections by a cushioning strip, see Fig. 11. The latter, desirably, is of chamoisette, or the like, such as a textile material having a considerable nap and a plushy feel. Said snap fastener elements 33 are all attached to the tape 34 by two lines of stitching 36; said strip is attached to the tape 34 by two lines of stitching 37; and said tape 34 is attached to the main band structure 32 by two lines of stitching 38. Note from Fig. 11 that the tape 34 is formed from a strip twice folded over on itself to provide substantially all over its width a two-ply member, and that the strip 35 is also twice folded over on itself to provide along both its opposite sides a two-ply construction.

Also as the said tie back auxiliary is shown, a net trimming 39 is applied along the bottom of the main structure 32, and in stitching said trimming in place it is shirred as at 40 to effect a ruffling thereof; said shirring being shown as laid down by two lines of stitching 4 I.

In Fig. 4, a portion of a companloncurtainto the curtain 20 is designated 42; these two curtains being shown as hung at a window opening within a frame 43.

For coaction in a manner later to be described with the tie back auxiliary 3| and a selected part of the projected portion of the tape 28, after said auxiliary 3| has been secured to and adjusted on the curtain 20 in a way to predetermine that the desired draping effect will be had, desirably there is attached to the adjacent side 44 of the window frame 43 a suitable fixture, for example, a fixture such as that shown at 45 in Figs. 4 and 13, carrying an upstanding L-bent post providing a hook 46.

Desirably, also, as indicated in the drawings, the male snap fastener elements 21 are not only uniformly spaced one from an adjoining one, but the uniform spacing between the female snap fastener elements 33 is the same as that between the snap fastener elements 21. At the same time, there are more elements 21 spaced across the width of the curtain 23, than there are elements 33 spaced along the main band structure 32 of the tie back auxiliary 3!. Thus, the said auxiliary 3! may be attached to the curtain 23, within the limits of the length of said band structure 32 and within the limits of the portion of the length of the tape 28 which crosses said curtain, in any one of a wide variety of ways, each by way of a plurality of couplings of an element 2'1 with an element 33, but in every case to arrange for a different draping of the curtain, when, finally, the tie back auxiliary 3| is secured to the window frame, as, for example, to the hook 46 of the fixture 45.

As already stated, in the brief description of the figures, the drape of the curtain 2U attempted to be pictorially delineated in Fig, 4, would result from arranging for pleatings of the curtain such as the ten thereof shown in Fig. 12. In the latter view, an adjustment of the tie back auxiliary 3| relative to the curtain 20 is shown, according to which, in regular sequence, beginning at the side of the curtain to be remote from the window frame side 44, and beginning at an end of the said auxiliary 3|, each snap fastener element 33 carried by said auxiliary is coupled to every other element 21 carried by the curtain; except that the three snap fastener elements 27 nearest to the side of the curtain marked 48 in Fig. 12 are respectively coupled to each of three immediately adjoining ones of the snap fastener elements 21, thereby, beyond said curtain side 48, to allow a coupling of each fastener element 2'! on thetape 28 projected beyond said curtain-side-to-be-effected with a fastener element .33. This last, while notessential, is desirable,.to give a more finished'appearance to the structure shown in Fig. 12 to the right of said curtain side 48.

In Fig. 12, with the said side 48 of the curtain 20 being its side located at the right inFig. 4,.tho two dotted lines 49 and 50 in Fig. 12 may be taken to represent, respectively, the opposite side of said curtain, and the outer limits of the net trimming 23.

Following attachment of the auxiliary tie back 3| to the curtain 20, by coupling of fastener elements 2'! with fastener elements 33, in any one of a multitude of different combinations thereby to arrange for any one of an equally numerous different possible drapes, the tie back may be employed as such. that is, to tie back the curtain, by engaging the hook 46 of the fixture 45 with the endmost one of pockets presented along the portion :of the length of the tape 28 between a pair of coupled fasteners 21 and 33, and an adjoining pair of coupled fasteners 21 and 33, for instance as indicated in Fig. 12 at 4'!, in which connection the said hook 46 is in this View indicated in dot and dash.

Referring to the modification illustrated in Figs. 14 to 16, the parts to which are applied reference numerals with primes added correspond, respectively, to the parts to which have been applied the same reference numerals without primes. Here, at spaced interval along the length of the tape 28, which is stitched to the curtain 20' by two lines of stitching 30, 30, and with said intervals preferably uniform as shown, there are rings 27' stitched to the tape and through the curtain 20'. Said rings are shown to be round and may be made of any suitable material, as, for example, metal, rubber, plastic, bone, etc.

In the modification now being described, the auxiliary addition, or tie-back auxiliary, 3 l may be constituted simply as a single flexible cord 3 I passed through the successive rings 2? along the series thereof arranged in a diagonal line across the curtain as illustrated. The end portion of said cord is shown as permanently secured to the curtain adjacent to the lowermost one of the rings 21, as by stitching, or knotting as indicated at 5|. The other end portion of the cord,

following pull on the cord to gather the curtain to provide the desired pleating between the rings 2?, is attached, as by tying, to a nail or other suitable point of anchorage at a fixed location on or near the window frame.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. Draping means for a curtain, comprising a tape secured to one face of the curtain along a diagonally extended line to have one end higher than the other, equally spaced fasteners mounted along the length of said tape, a tie-back extended along the said one face of the curtain parallel to said tape, and equally spaced complementary fasteners mounted along the face of said tie back facing the said one face of the curtain and engaged with said first-mentioned fasteners, said tie-back being of a length less than the length of said tape, said complementary fasteners being spaced along said tie-back to match the spacing of said first-mentioned fasteners, there being fewer complementary fasteners than there are of said first-mentioned fasteners, said complementary fasteners being engaged with said first-mentioned fasteners in various selective arrangements to vary the gathering of the curtain.

2. Draping means for a curtain in accordance with claim 1 in which said tie-back has a main band structure supporting said complementary fasteners and a trim shirred, rufiied trimming attached to said main band structure along the length thereof.

BERNARD JITOMIR.

REFERENtZES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 820,786 Henson May 15, 1906 1,895,951 Von Ficht Jan. 31, 1933 2,301,081 Rosenberg Nov. 3, 1942 2,520,653 Rand Aug. 29, 1950 2,563,306 Burrage Aug. 7, 1951

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