US525143A - Curtain-hanger - Google Patents

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l(No Model.)

M. GAIR.. K CURTAIN HANGER.

:Patented Aug. 28, 1894.

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MARIE GAIR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CURTAIN-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 525,143, dated August 28, 1894.

Application filed December 21, 1893- Serial No, 494,247. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARIE GAIR, of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ourtain-Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improved device for draping curtains, portires, dac., and consists in the novel device hereinafter described and designated in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The object is to construct a ring for draping curtains, &c., of asingle piece of wire, or like material, which shall be so formed that it can be made to engage a curtain at two separate points in the same plane, and the curtain can be readily attached or detached therefrom without manipulating any other fastening.

In the drawings: Figure l is a plan View of a single piece of wire of which my improved curtain ring is constructed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the piece of wire after it has been flattened intermediate its ends. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, showing the manner in which the piece of wire is first bent to form theimproved curtain hanger. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of Fig. 3, showing the same further in the course of construction. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of a curtain pole, showing the position which the rings occupy when placed upon said pole and in use.

Referring to the drawings: 1 indicates a piece of Wire which is rst sharpened at each end, and then the portion 2 thereof intermediate its endsis flattened, so that arin g 2a can be formed of such suitable size that it will pass over a curtain pole without marrin g said pole or disfigurin g it as otherwisewould be the case. The wire is next bent so as to form a ring of the flattened portion 2, and the ends thereof are blocked together and the round portions of the wire adjacent each end of the flattened portion, is twisted together at 3, and the free ends of the wire projecting outward from said twisted portion in alignment with each other, and then said round portions are fixed at right angles to the face of the ring and bent downward so they will be parallel with each other, and they are finally curved up so as to form two parallel hooks 4:, the points of which lie in substantially the same horizontal plane, but in a plane above the curved portions of said hooks.

5 indicates a curtain pole of ordinary construction, one end of which is mounted in an ordinary ornamental bracket 6, which is connected to the window or arch casing (not shown), and upon the pole is mounted the improved curtain rings, and the upper edge of a curtain 7 is placed upon the hooks 4 as required for supporting said curtain.

It will be seen that the two hooks of a single ring engage the curtain at separate points in the same plane, thereby holding it more securely than a single hook would.

As an article of manufacture, the improved curtain-ring formed of an integralpiece of round wire flattened at 2, to leave round por.

tions at each end thereof, and to form a flat body the ends of said flat-'body being united at a point beneath the same, and said round portions twisted together at 3 and bent outward in opposite directions, and then downward so that they lie parallel with the twisted portion 3 and with each other, and two parallel vertical hooks 4 forming the terminals of said round portions, with their points projecting upward in a horizontal plane common to both points, substantially as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARIE GAIR.

Witnesses:

JN0.' C. HIcDoN, F. T. vBUNYAN.

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