IMPROVED HOOK FOR SUSPENDING CURTAINS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: WALTER GEORGE HYLAND of 87 Coldharbour Lane Camberwell in the County
of Surrey Commercial traveller do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED HOOK FOR SUSPENDING CURTAINS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, to be
as follows:-
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I claim to be the inventor of a certain Curtain or fabric hook which saves the
trouble and waste of time caused in sewing the hooks on to the Curtains or fabrics
and that it is likewise a considerable ornament to all descriptions of Curtains and
fabrics and is extremely simple and useful.
The invention consists of a hook annexed to a button made or formed in the
shape of birds beasts fish flies insects leaves bars or cross-bars or anything in the
nature of a button or affecting the same object as a button for the purpose of
holding or retaining the Curtain or fabric on to the hook.
The said invention or any portion thereof may be manufactured or formed of all
or any kind or kinds of metal or of any other substance.
It may be formed in one piece as a continued wire or shaped cast stamped or
soldered as a whole or in various pieces.

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I WALTER GEORGE HYLAND of 87 Coldharbour Lane Camberwell in the County
of Surrey, Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED HOOK FOR SUSPENDING CURTAINS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
This hook is simple and useful and is especially applicable as a curtain hook for
connecting a curtain to the rings on the curtain pole so as to save trouble and time
of sewing while at the same time forming an ornament but may also be used for a
great many other purposes for instance for receiving accounts, letters and business
papers. It may be formed in one or more pieces and shaped, cast or soldered or
otherwise united together.
Figure 1 is a side view of the hook, and Figure a plan, Figure 3 shows the
mode of applying such hooks to a curtain. It consists simply of the shank A
which may be a piece of wire of any desired section bent to the form shown and
provided with a head or button B which may be of any desired plain or ornamental
shape or design such as that of a star or rosette in the form of a bird, beast, fish or
insect. The head may be made all in one piece with the wire by winding or
twisting or otherwise bending it in a spiral or other shape. The mode of
application is very simple as will be seen from Fig 3 consisting only in passing the
point of the wire through the curtain C near the edge of same and passing it right
through to the head B which will hold the hook in place the hook being next
passed through the eye D of the ring E on the curtain pole F.
Figure 4 is a side view, Figure 5 plan, and Figure 6 back view of the hook in
a slightly modified form that is to say bent to one side near the head thus adjusting
it better to receive papers.
Figure 7 is a back view showing such a form of hook when used for receiving
papers C and simply hung onto a nail D fastened in a wall,
Figure 8 is a side view showing a hook formed with an S part for connecting
a loose or separate shank button B thereto, as may sometimes be preferable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The hook having a shank A bent in the form shown and provided with a head
or button B of any desired plain or ornamental form or design.