US2931612A - Adjustable drapery hook with track - Google Patents

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April 5, 1960 J. N. GRABER 2,931,612

ADJUSTABLE DRAPERY Hoox WITH TRACK Filed Feb. 18, 1957 0 i0 z/ Z INVENTOR JOHN N. GRABER ATTORNEYS United States Patent C ADJUSTABLE DRAPERY HOOK WITH TRACK John N. Graber, Middleton, Wis., assignor to Graber Manufacturing Company, Inc., Middleton, Wis., a corporation Application February 18, 1957, Serial No. 640,732

1 Claim. (Cl. 248-214) This invention appertains to a novel device for connecting drapes to the slides or runers of traverse rods and the like. I

One of the primary objects of my present invention is to provide an eiective means for adjustably connecting the supporting hooks with their drapery connecting means, so that the hooks can be quickly adjusted manually and then automatically held in such adjusted positions by the inherent resiliency of the hook members, the arrangement being such that the weight of the drapery functions as additional means for holding the hook mem` bers in their selected adjusted positions against accidental displacemnet.

Another salient object of my invention is the provision of a guide plate member more or less permanently secured to the drape heading with a supporting hook slidable thereon and having a resilient detent adapted to engage in a selected keeper notch or opening with the detent so placed relative to the guide plate member that weight (the drape) on the plate member acts to further hold the detent in its latched position.

A further important object of my invention is to provide novel means for forming the guide plate member and the supporting hook, whereby the hook is carried on the guide plate for free sliding movement upon release of the resilient latch member. l

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and formation of parts, as will be hereinafter more specifically described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view illustratin one form of lmy drapery supporting device incorporated with the heading of a drape;

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the drapery supporting device, parts of the view being shown broken away and in section to illustrate structural detail;

Figure 3-is a longitudinal sectional view through the drapery supporting device taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows, the view showing in dotted lines the released position of the slide hook;

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view through thev drapery supporting device taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawings in detail, wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views the letter S generally indicates one preferred form ot my improved supporting device for a drape D.

The drape D can be of any preferred character and 2,931,612 Patented Apr. 5, 1960 ICC as shown includes the heading 15 having the usual pleats 16.

`Thc supporting device S comprises a guide plate or track 17 which is adapted to be secured in any preferred manner to the heading 15, preferably atthe pleats 16. As shown in Figure 1, the plate 17 can be secured to the drape by stitches 18 which can be passed through suitable openings 19 which also form keepers. The openings 19 extend in a longitudinal central line. The plate 17 can beformed from any desired material, such as metal or plastic, and can be conveniently formed vby extrusion. The plate is provided with inwardly directed longitudinally extending guide anges 20 which in conjunction with the body portion of the plate 17 form guide tracks for slidably receiving the supporting hook member 21.

The supporting hook member 21 also kcan be formed from any desired material, and includes a base 22 of a shape and size to be snugly received within the flanges 20 for longitudinal sliding movement. Formed on the upper edge of the base 21 is a resilient hook 23 having a bill 24 adapted `to be placed over a rod or in openings in slides or runners. The hook 23 at a point adjacent to the base 21 is provided with astruck-in latch lug 24 and this latch lug is adapted to engage in a selected keeper opening 20. The normal inherent resiliency of the hook 2,3 holds the latch lug 24 in engagement with the walls of a selected keeper opening. Obviously, by springing the hook 23 outwardly, as shown in dotted lines in Figure 3, the latch lug can be moved from vout of engagement with the walls of the keeper opening and thus the entire hook member can be slid up and down on its guide plate or track as may be desired. Obviously, the weight of the drape on the hook 23 functions to hold the hook toward the guide plate and the latch lug 24' in a keeper opening.

Hence, by merely actuating the hook 23 the entire hook member can be readily adjusted relative to the drape heading without disturbing the drape or the guide track 1'7, any way whatsoever.

Changes in details may be made without departing from the spirit or the scope of this invention, but what I claim as new is:

An adjustable drapery supporting device comprising a guide plate adapted to be secured to the heading of a Ydrape and to extend longitudinally thereof having inwardly directed ilanges on its side edges cooperating with the plate to form a guide track, said plate having a longitudinally extending line of keeper openings, a supporting hook member including a base slidable between said ilanges on the guide plate, and a downwardly opening hook at the upper end of said base for. engaging a supporting rod of a less width than s'ad base and extending outwardly between said flanges, said hook having an inwardly extending latch lug on its inner face normally held in a selected keeper opening by the inherent resiliency of the hook and the downward pull of the drape carried by the guide plate.

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