AN IMPROVED CURTAIN-HOOK
Year: 1885

page_text: I, ALFRED PYKE, of 4, Union Bank Buildings, Ely Place, Holborn, in the City
of London, Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN
IMPROVED CURTAIN-HOOK" to be as follows:-
My invention relates to curtain-hooks and is designed to provide means whereby
the hook may be secured to, and detached from, the curtain with greater facility
than is the case with the hooks as ordinarily made, and whereby the proper
hanging of the curtain may be facilitated.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide the hook with pointed prongs
or projections which will readily enter the fabric of which the curtain may consist,
and can then be bent down in such manner that the hook will thereby be securely
attached to the curtain. I prefer to make the hook and the fastening prongs all of
one piece of metal and to provide an enlarged portion of circular or other form as
a base for the prongs. Two of the latter are ordinarily sufficient but more may be
provided if found to be necessary in any special cases; and, if desired, these prongs
may be soldered or otherwise secured to the base. My improved arrangement
entirely dispenses with the ordinary safety pin which is in most cases used with
curtain hooks, and greatly facilitates the hanging of the curtains in proper plaits
or folds.
My improved hook may be made of brass or of any other suitable metal.

page_text: I, ALFRED PYKE, of 4 Union Bank Buildings, Ely Place, Holborn, in the City
of London do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED
CURTAIN-HOOK "and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an improved curtain-hook which can be secured to, and
detached from a curtain with greater facility than the curtain-hooks ordinarily
used, and whereby the proper hanging of the curtain can be very easily effected.
My improved curtain-hook has two or more pointed prongs or projections which
I term spikes, and which are so made that they can be very readily inserted into
the fabric of which the curtain may consist, and then bent or folded over the said
fabric at the back thereof so as to securely fasten the hook to the curtain. I prefer
to make the hook and the fastening prongs or spikes in one piece, and to provido
the hook with an enlarged portion or plate of circular or other form as a base for
the said prongs or spikes.
In some cases, however, the said prongs or spikes are soldered or otherwise
secured to the book proper or to the said base or plate. Two of these prongs or
spikes are sufficient for ordinary purposes, but a larger number of them may be
provided if found necessary.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a plan
Figure 2 a front elevation, and
Figure 3 a side elevation, of one of my curtain-hooks.
Figure 4 shows a blank from which the said curtain-hook is formed.
Figure 5 is a perspective view of the said curtain-hook.
a indicates the hook proper; b is the base or enlarged portion; c, c are the
prongs or spikes which are perpendicular to the base 6 and which are designed to
be inserted into, or thrust through, the curtain and then bent or folded one over
the other so that the fabric of which the curtain is composed is firmly gripped
between the said prongs or spikes and the base b.
The curtain-hook shewn in the drawing is made by first stamping a blank, as
shewn in Figure 4, from sheet brass or other metal, and then bending the parts a
and c as required.
The same curtain-hook may, however, be formed in any convenient manner;
and, if desired, the prongs or spikes are so arranged that they will lie side by sido
when the book is fastened to the curtain in the manner above specified.
By my invention I entirely obviate the necessity for employing safety pins such
as are, in most cases, used with curtain-hooks. Moreover my said invention greatly
facilitates the hanging of curtains in such a manner as to ensure symmetry in the
plaits or folds thereof, as my curtain-hooks can be more realily secured in their
proper positions to a curtain than the curtain-hooks heretofore used.

page_text: According to a modification of my suid invention, the prongs or spikes care
hinged or pivotted to the base b, and, in some cases, they are provided with springs
which tend to hold the said prongs or spikes in position when the hook is fastened
to a curtain.
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 improved curtain-hook provided with the prongs or spikes, substantially as,
and for the purpose, set forth.