Patent ID: 6059009
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: A47H

Abstract:
A device for hanging decorative and functional panels, the device comprising:a heading tape assembly comprising:a prefabricated elongated textile tape, said tape having a plurality of aligned and pre-spaced tape holes along the length of said tape, with elongated edges of the tape extending along opposite sides of the tape holes so as to leave first and second attachment textile-tape edge portions on opposite sides of said aligned tape holes;circular grommets, one mounted in each of said tape holes, each grommet being bent to be clamped to said textile tape for mounting it in its respective tape hole, each said grommet defining a grommet opening there-through;a plurality of individual rings, each ring having a ring neck for being shoved through a grommet opening of one of said grommets from a front side of said tape toward a backside of said tape, each of said ring necks having a size and shape for tightly fitting the grommet opening for being automatically clamped to said grommet and for covering a portion of an inside diameter of the grommet, and each ring having a cover flange for covering a portion of a front side of the grommet panel;whereby said device is suitable for hanging said decorative and functional panels by attaching said textile tape to said panel to be hung along two approximately-parallel attachment lines, one in each of said first and second textile-tape edge portions, with the front side of said tape lying against a back side of a panel to be hung, to thereby provide a pattern for cutting panel holes in said panel at said grommet holes and for then allowing said rings to be shoved through the panel holes and the grommet openings from a front side of said panel toward the backside of said tape so that said ring necks cover portions of edges of the panel material defining said tape holes and said cover flanges cover portions of said panel surrounding said panel holes.