Year: 1897

page_text: I, ETHEL SPYDRE BROWETT, of St. Nicholas, Coventry, in the County of Warwick,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide improved means, in lieu of the usual
hooks, for fastening curtains to their rings, such as to prevent the curtains from
becoming detached from their rings (as they frequently are when hooks are em-
ployed) on being drawn back, and yet to enable them to be very quickly fastened
and unfastened when required.
According thereto I take a tape or strip of woven or other suitable material
having holes through it at equal or other suitable distances apart, (they may con-
veniently be formed during the process of weaving the tape or strip) and I sew or
otherwise secure this tape or strip, which may be of any suitable width, along its
two edges to the curtain so that the holes in the tape or strip are about in the
positions usually occupied by the hooks. I then take a narrow tape or cord, and
sew or otherwise secure one end thereof to the curtain at or near one end of the
aforesaid or wide tape or strip. The other end of the narrow tape or cord I pass
along within the wide tape or strip (i.e., between the latter and the curtain) and
out through the hole nearest to the said end thereof, then through a ring, again
through the hole just mentioned and further along within the wide tape or strip,
and proceed in this manner until all the rings have been passed through, after
which the narrow tape or cord is passed in through the last hole and sewn or
otherwise secured to the curtain.
It will be seen that by detaching one end of the narrow tape or cord and drawing
it out through the last hole at the other end thereof, the curtain can be detached
from its rings with extreme quickness and that the curtain can be very quickly
fastened to its rings again by means of the narrow tape or cord whether the rings
be on the curtain-pole or not.
It will also be obvious that one advantage of the improved fastening is that the
rings will always occupy the same positions on the curtain however often the latter
may be removed for washing or other purposes, so that by suitably arranging the
wide tape or strip on the curtain at first, its subsequent graceful hanging can be
ensured.

page_text: Improved Means for Fastening Curtains to their Supporting Rings.
I, ETHEL SPYDRE BROWETT, of St. Nicholas, Coventry, in the County of Warwick,
Gentlewoman, 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 this invention is to provide improved means, in lieu of the usual
hooks, for fastening curtains to their rings, such as to prevent the curtains from
becoming detached from their rings (as they frequently are when hooks are em-
ployed) on being drawn, and yet to enable them to be very quickly fastened
and unfastened when required.
According thereto I take a tape or strip of woven or other suitable material
having holes through it at equal or other suitable distances apart, (they may con-
veniently be formed during the process of weaving the tape or strip) and I sew or
otherwise secure this tape or strip, which may be of any suitable width, along its
two edges to the curtain so that the holes in the tape or strip are about in the
positions usually occupied by the hooks. I then take a narrow tape or cord, and
sew or otherwise secure. one end thereof to the curtain at or near one end of the
aforesaid wide tape or strip. The other end of the narrow tape or cord I pass
along within the wide tape or strip (.e., between the latter and the curtain) and
out through the hole nearest to the said end thereof, then through a ring, again
through the hole just mentioned and further along within the wide tape or strip,
and proceed in this manner until all the rings have been passed through, after
which the narrow tape or cord is passed in through the last hole and tied, sewn or
otherwise secured to the curtain.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing, shows a piece of a curtain provided with
my improved means for fastening its supporting rings thereto. Fig. 2 shows a
piece of the perforated tape detached from the curtain. 1 is part of a curtain to
the upper portion of which supporting rings are to be secured. 2 is a length of
wide tape secured along its two edges 2 to the upper edge portion of the curtain
and formed at suitable intervals with holes which may conveniently be of elon-
gated form as shown; 4 is a narrow tape or cord secured at one end to the curtain
near one end of the tape 2 and extending through the space left between the
latter tape and the curtain; and 5 are the curtain suspending rings which are
threaded in the manner hereinbefore explained on loop like portions 4" of the tape
or cord 4 extending through the holes 3. The wide tape 2 can be secured to the
curtain when the same is in its flat or ungathered condition as shown at the right
hand end of Fig. 1, in which case both it and the curtain can be gathered or
pleated to any desired extent and as shown at the left hand side of Fig. 1, by
drawing out the tape or cord 4 to the required extent. Or the upper portion of
the curtain may be gathered or pleated and the flat tape 2 secured to the gathered
upper portion of the curtain. When desired, some of the rings, say every alternate
one, may be omitted, the tape or cord 4 then passing the hole 3 in the tape 2 without
extending through it.
With the arrangement described it will be seen that by detaching the left hand
end of the narrow tape or cord 4 and drawing it out through the last hole 3 at the
other end of the tape 2, the curtain I can be detached from its rings 5 with extreme
quickness and that the curtain can be very quickly fastened to its rings again
by means of the narrow tape or cord, whether the rings be on a curtain-pole or not.
It will also be obvious that previously when the tape 2 is secured to the gathered
upper portion of the curtain, the rings 5 will always occupy the same positions on

page_text: the curtain however often the latter may be removed for washing or other purpose,
so that by suitably arranging the tape or strip 2 on the curtain at first, the sub-
sequent graceful hanging of the curtain can be ensured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. Fastening a curtain to its supporting rings by means of a removable tape or
cord that is inserted between the curtain and a strip of material secured thereto
and on which the rings are threaded, the said strip being formed with holes through
which the engaged portions of the tape and rings extend, substantially as
described.
2. A curtain provided with the improved means described and shown for
fastening it to its supporting rings.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.