Improvements in or relating to Curtains.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 31st May, 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
*Improvements in or relating to Curtains.
We, PRATT, HURST AND COMPANY, LIMITED, of Stoney Street, in the
Borough of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, and THOMAS BARBER WALKER,
Designer to the above Company, of 2 Melton Road Bridgeford, Notts, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates more particularly to lace window or like curtains but it is
also applicable to curtains manufactured by weaving or other process.
In carrying out this invention such curtains instead of being formed parallel
from top to bottom or rectangular as heretofore are formed of a greater width at
the top than at the bottom. Each curtain of a pair is preferably formed with the
top and bottom at right angles to the outer edge so that the outer edges will hang
vertically, whilst the inner edges hang at an incline to the vertical and diverge
from each other from the top to the bottom.
In order to save any waste of material in the manufacture of such curtains,
two curtains having their inclined edges placed together, with the top of one
curtain corresponding with the bottom of the other so as to form a rectangle,
are preferably treated as one curtain both in the draughting and subsequent
operations.
If preferred the pattern at the top of each curtain may be made to represent a
vallance.
With curtains formed in the manner described a greater width and consequent
fulness may be obtained at the upper part of the curtain with the same amount
of material, whilst the shape also allows of more artistic and convenient draping.
Deted this 31st day of August 1894
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Of London, Nottingham, Liverpool, and Manchester,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in or relating to Curtains.
We, PRATT, HURST & COMPANY LIMITED, of Stoney Street, in the Borough
of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, and THOMAS BARBER WALKER, Designer
to the above Company, of 2 Melton Road Bridgeford, Notts do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates more particularly to lace window or like curtains, but is
also applicable to curtains manufactured by weaving or other processes.
It will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in
which,
Fig. 1 is a view of two curtains as manufactured together, and
Fig. 2 18 a view of a pair of curtains showing the position in which they

page_text: In carrying out this invention such curtains instead of being formed rectangular
as heretofore, are made of a greater width at the top A than at the bottom B.
Each curtain of a pair is preferably formed as shown in Figure 2 with the top A
and bottom B at right angles to the outer edge C so that the latter will hang
vertically and the inner edges D hang at an incline to the vertical and diverge
from each other from the top to the bottom.
In order to save any waste of material in the manufacture of such irregularly
shaped curtains, two curtains having their inclined edges D placed together with
the top of one curtain corresponding to the bottom of the other so as to form a
rectangle as shown in Fig. 1, are preferably treated as one curtain both in the
draughting and subsequent operations.
If preferred the pattern at the top of each curtain may be made to represent a
valance E.
With curtains formed in the manner described a greater width and consequent
fullness may be obtained at the upper part where it is required, with the same
amount of material, whilst the shape also allows of more artistic and convenient
draping.
In some cases, for example, where three curtains are used together, the centre
curtain may be formed with both the side edges equally inclined to the vertical as
shown in dotted lines at F (Fig. 2).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
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1. The manufacture in one piece of two curtains each of which has its top aud
bottom edges parallel and its side edges inclined in relation to each other, the
upper end of one curtain corresponding with the lower end of the other, substantially
as described and illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings.
2. A window or like curtain of a greater width at the top than at the bottom
substantially as described.
3. A window or like curtain of greater width at the top than at the bottom
with a vertical outer edge and an inclined inner edge substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. A window or like curtain whose top and bottom edges are parallel and whose
side edges are inclined in relation to each other substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
5. A window or like curtain of greater width at the top than at the bottom with
both side edges inclined to the vertical substantially as described and illustrated in
he accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of May 1895.
PRATT, HURST & CO., LIMITED,
E. LUNTLEY, Director.
THOMAS BARBER WALKER.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.