Improvements in Curtain Poles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1805
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Curtain Poles.
I, OSWALD VULTURIUS, Manufacturer of Buchholz in the Kingdom of Saxony
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 :-
The present invention refers to an arrangement in curtain-poles by which it is
made possible to take down the curtains for the purpose of washing them, as well
as to put them back after they have been cleaned, without being obliged, as was
hitherto the case, to take off the curtain-mouldings. This work, for which either
ladders, or in case they are not to be had, tables with chairs placed on them,
must be used, is naturally not only troublesome for the mistresses of the house,
but also dangerous, and many are the accidents which have occurred in this
manner.
My arrangement does away, as has already been stated, with all these dis-
advantages by making it possible to change the curtains while remaining on the
floor and thus without the use of ladders etc.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawing represents the complete apparatus as applied
to curtains with stationary halves; Figure 2 the apparatus for draw-curtains,
the moulding being omitted, and finally Figure 3 an upper view of Fig. 2.
A is the curtain-moulding as seen from the back. On it there are two (drawn
to the right of A in a side-view) angles b, in which are mounted small movable
rollers T1 T2
At the lower end each of these angles also possesses an opening
which serves for the reception of a bolt to be mentioned later on.
In connection with this curtain-moulding, which is permanently attached to the
window there is the inserted piece which bears the curtain and moves on and off
and is also adjustable laterally.
This piece consists of two halves c₁ made of sheet-metall in any shape (here
three-cornered) capable of being pushed the one into the other and of being held
in every position by the set-screw d. The lower edge of these halves chas
a slit e (see right of Fig. 1) for pushing in any number desired of hooks (see
right of Fig. 2). Each of the halves e ci has besides a casing 9 g₁ with a bolt h h₁
subject to the pressure of a spring, and the half c separately a casing i with the
little rollers k k₁.
The raising and lowering of the inserted piece is effected by a draw-mechanism
consisting of the cords l₁₂ m m₁,
For this purpose an eye is screwed in in each of the halves e, in which the
cords and are fastened. The cord runs over the roller r to ri and from there
downwards, the cord 4, over the roller re downwards. The two free ends of the
cord are connected with the cord 2, which is in connection with the cords m n
coming from the bolts h₁ and passing over the rollers k k₁.
The fastening-mechanism o attached to the window frame serves to fasten the
apparatus.
When a curtain is to be hung up, one lowers the inserted piece, after the bolts h hi
have been let out of the openings in by pulling the cords mn; the curtains
are hung on to the hooks f, or if they are draw-curtains, they are attached to
the draw-curtain-mechanism, drawn in Fig. 2 and 3 by means of rings and the
whole apparatus is then drawn up again by means of the cords until the
inserted piece is situated behind the curtain moulding and the bolts h hi enter

page_text: into the openings contained in the angles. Then the whole is made fast by
means of the mechanism o.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1.) An apparatus for putting curtains up and taking them off, without being
obliged to take down the curtain-moulding, distinguished by the arrangement of
an inserted piece with loose hooks for the reception of the curtains, connected
with the curtain moulding by pulleys and consisting of two halves capable of
being pushed one into the other, as well as of the bolts actuated by springs and
entering into openings, situated in the moulding on the curtains being drawn up.
2.) The arrangement as distinguished under 1) with means for its being applied
to draw-curtains.
Dated this Fifth day of February 1895.
For OSWALD VULTURIUS,
B. Brockhues.