Improvements in Curtain Hooks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Apr., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
Improvements in Curtain Hooks.
I, THOMAS GAZE, Manager, of 64 Whiting Street, Bury St. Edmunds, in the
County of Suffolk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of the present invention is the production of a hook for attaching
curtains to rings or poles, which hooks shall be very easy to apply, cheap to
construct, and durable in use.
I will first describe my invention as applied to hooks for attaching curtains to
the eyes of rings, such as are usually threaded on a curtain pole.
The ordinary curtain hook is attached to the curtain by sewing, or by means
of a safety pin made with the hook. My hook requires no such arrangement
for securing it to the curtain, but is so constructed that it will hold itself firmly in
the curtain.
The hook is constructed from a piece of stiff wire, bent so as to constitute two
hooks joined at the base, and standing side by side. The points of these hooks
are passed through a fold of the curtain at the proper point, so that the fold rests
upon, and is suspended from, the base or connecting portion between the hooks.
The points of the latter are then pinched together, and inserted in the eye of the
curtain ring, from which they will not easily become dislodged, owing to their
tendency to spring apart.
In books to be used for attaching curtains to rode or laths, as distinguished from
curtain poles with rings, as above mentioned, the hooks are made by bending stiff
wire as before, but at the base is made a loop or ring, capable of embracing the
lath, or, it may be, a cord threaded through it. The hooks are inserted in the
material of the curtain, as before, but in this case the base with the loop attached,
hangs upwards, instead of downwards, as in the case where the books engage with
the eyes of curtain rings.
The construction of hooks, according to my invention, is a simple and inexpensive
process, and their insertion into the curtain is extremely easy. They do not damage
the material of the curtain, neither are they liable to become detached therefrom,
or from the rings wherewith they are made to engage.
Dated this 6th day of July 1894.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Curtain Hooks.
I, THOMAS GAZE Manager of 64, Whiting Street Bury Saint Edmunds, in
the County of Suffolk 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 object of the present invention is the production of a hook for attaching
curtains and the like to rings or poles which hooks shall be very easy to apply,

page_text: cheap to construct, and durable in use. I will first describe my invention as applied
to hooks for attaching curtains to the eyes of rings such as are usually threaded
on a curtain pole. The ordinary curtain hook is attached to the curtain by sewing
or by means of a safety pin made with the hook. My hook requires no such
arrangement for securing it to the curtain, but is so constructed that it will hold
itself firmly in the curtain.
The hook is constructed from a piece of stiff wire, bent so as to constitute two
hooks joined at the base, and standing side by side. The points of these hooks
are passed through a fold of the curtain at the proper point, so that the fold rests
upon, and is suspended from the base or connecting portion between the hooks.
The points of the later are then pinched together, and inserted in the eye of the
curtain ring, from which they will not easily become dislodged owing to their
tendency to spring apart. (See drawing Fig. I.)
In hooks to be used for attaching curtains to rods or laths as distinguished from
curtain poles with rings, as above mentioned, the hooks are made by bending stiff
wire as before, but at the base is made a loop or ring, capable of embracing the
laths, or,
it may be, a cord threaded through it. The hooks are inserted in the
material of the curtain, as before, but in this case the base with the loop attached,
hangs upwards instead of downwards as in the case where the hooks engage with
the eyes of curtain rings. (8
(Sec drawing Fig. II.)
The construction of hooks according to my invention, is a simple and inexpensive
process, and, their insertion into the curtain is extremely easy. They do not
damage the material of the curtain, neither are they liable to become detached
therefrom, or from the rings wherewith they are made to engage.
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 1
claim is;
The construction of improved hooks for curtains and the like substantially as
described above and as illustrated by the drawings annexed.
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THOMAS GAZE,
Applicant.