Improvements in Hooks for Suspending Curtains and the like.
Year: 1895

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Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks for Suspending Curtains and the like.
1, EDWARD CHRISTIE of Boundary Road, Toorak, in the Colony of Victoria,
Gentleman, 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 has been devised to provide cortain improvements in the con-
struction of hooks used for suspending cuntains, ait hangings and the like draperies,
and the hooks constructed according to my invention are more economical in then
cost of manufacture, efficient and more easily adjusted in the requied positions
than are the hooks at present in use.
In order that my invention may be the more easily understood reference may be
made to the accompanying drawings in which-
Figmes 1 and 2 are side and front elevations respectively of one foun of hook
made according to my invention,
Figures 3 and 4 being similar clevations of an alternate arrangement or con-
struction of my hook.
Figue 5 an alternative of Figme 1, whilst
Figure 6 illustrates a couple of my hooks supporting some diapery in an artistic
manner.
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In these diawings "A" (Figs 1 and 2) is a double hook, the top end "B ol
which is sharpened to a point as shewn, and is so constructed as to hang in an eyelet.
such as "
C" of a ring as "C" upon the curtain pole “D” The bottom cuve
of "A" terminates in a spiral coil E," the coil being formed by a convolution of
the same piece of wne of which the hook 'A" is constructed The whole of
the convolution "E forms a stop piece, so that the curtain or drapery, suspended
by the hook, cannot leave its position. The front of the stop piece or coil "E"
(Fig. 2) may be gilded, burnished or otherwise tastefully colored so as to harmonise
with the drapery it is to be attached to In some cases I may terminate the
bottom hook of A in or against a stop button or disc as "F" (see Fig. 5)
button "F" may be made of stamped metal, porcelain or other suitable material
Referring to Figs. 3 and 4 an alternate construction 13 shewn m which the top
hook "H" of "A is extended and increased in diameter so as to grasp the curtain
pole in the mannci shewn and thus obviates the employment of any curtain ing "C"
and eyelet "C" (see Fig 1).
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This
"G" (Figs 3 and 4) represents a stop piece in which the hook "A" terminates
and is constructed of stamped metal or other suitable material but in practice
I pieter to construct this said stop piece "G" in the coiled for shewn at
"E"
in Figs 1 and 2 I would have it understood that the enlarged hook "H" (Fig 3)
should be of sufficient dimensions or diameter to enable it to be moved with facility
along the cuntain pole "D."
Referring to Figure 6 an arrangement of art draping is shewn as an instance of
one manne in which the hook A in Fignies of 5 may be cmployed with
artistic effect. In hanging curtains from the ordinary curtain poles as "D" the
oporator takes the hook loosely in his or her hands, passes the point "B" through
the material of the curtain at the exact spot that the stop piece
E," "F"
or "G" is desued to remain, and then by a small turn of the hand passes the
whole of the hook "A" through the opening caused by the point "B" until the
stop piece prevents any further progress-the operator then passes the point
"B"
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page_text: through the eyelet "C1" or (as in Figure 3) passes the enlarged hook "H" over
the curtain pole "D." When the hook "A" (as in Figure 1 or 5) is employed
for catching up or suspending diaperies the operator takes the material in the left
band, passes the point "B" though the material at the desired spot, tutus it
until the stop piece prevents any further progress of the hook "A" and then
haugs the hooked point "B" into the material at the height requned somewhat in
manner shewn in Figure 6.
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
1 claim is―
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1. In suspension hooks for curtains and the Jike-A double hook as "A
top end of which is sharpened as "B" and the bottom end coiled to form a stop
piece as "E" substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
2. In suspension hooks for curtains and the like-A double hook as "A-H"
the top of which has a sharpened point as "Band enlarged so as to grasp the
curtain pole and the bottom end of which is coiled to form a stop picce as E"
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
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3. In suspension hooks for curtain, and the like-A double hook as "A
end of which teimuntes in a shai pened point as "B" and the other in a stop
button as "" or "G" substantially as and for the purposes set forth
Dated thus 22nd day of October 1895.
FREDK WALKER,
73 St Stephen's Road, Upton Park, London, E.,
Agent for the Applicant.