Year: 1888

page_text: I, JULIUS BLRBECKER, of 65 Duane Street, in the City of New York, in the
State of New York, United States of America, Manufacturer of Brass Goods, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
My invention consists in forming out of one piece of metal wire, a curtain
pin having a spring hook, which when passed through the small ring attached to
the large rings which slide along the cornice poles or rods, cannot be thrown out of
the said smill ring by any of the accidental occurrences which often detach the
ordinary curtain pin hooks from their rings and cause the curtain suspended by
means of them to fall out of place, and I perform my invention in the following
manner
I make of metal wire a curtain pin the lower part of which differs in no material
respect, either in form or action from that of the pin and guard portion of an
ordinary safety pin but in the middle of the upper part I bend the wie so that it
shall form a hook having two spring sides with an elastic tendency outwards
this spring book the most important feature is the nose, the form of which will be
seen by referring to figure 1, wherein it is denoted by a b c
Of
From this illustration it will be seen that the two sides a and b of the nose of the
curtain pin hook would have to be slightly compressed to enable this part to be
passed through the small ring d fixed in the large ringe which slides upon the
cornice pole, a portion of which is denoted by ff, and further, that when the nose
of the hook is passed through the small ring d, and the pressure relaxed, the two
sides a and b of the hook having an elastic tendency outwards, will so spring apart
as to prevent the nose of the hook repassing through the ring d, except by the
re-application of the compression, thus no ordinary accidental occurrence can cause
the spring hook to be detached from the eye of the small ring, hence my invention
is an improvement upon ordinary curtain pins, and further improvement is that
by providing the curtain pin with a spring hook of the kind above described, the
length of this can be reduced, and a saving of material thereby is gained

page_text: And although I have spoken of my invention only as applicable for the suspension
of curtains, I may also use it for the safer suspension of other articles, as for instance,
in the hanging and displaying of light goods in shop windows
Dated this Tenth day of April 1888
F G HEATH,
Agent for Julius Berbecker
I, JULIUS BERBECKER, of 65 Duane Street, in the City of New York, in the State of
New York, United States of America, Manufacturer of Brass Goods 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
My invention consists in forming out of one piece of metal wire, a curtain pin
having a spring hook which when passed through the small ring attached to the large
ngs which slide along the cornice poles or rods, cannot be thrown out of the said
small ring by any of the accident il occurrences which often detach the ordinary
curtain pin hooks from their rings, and cause the curtun suspended by means of
them to fall out of place, and I perform my invention in the following in inner
Ot
I make of metal wire a curtain pin the lower part of which differs in no material
respect, either in form or action, from that of the pin and guard portion of an
ordin iry safety pin, but in the middle of the upper part, I bend the wire so that it
shall form a hook having two spring sides with an elistic tendency outwards
this spring hook the most important feature is the nose, the form of which will be
seen by referring to figure 1 in the drawing filed with my provisional specification,
wherein it is denoted by a b c
From this illustration it will be seen that the two sides a and b of the nose of the
curtain pin hook would have to be slightly compressed to enable this part to be passed
through the small ring d fixed in the large ring e which slides upon the cornice
pole, portion of which is denoted by ff, and further, that when the nose of the
Look is passed through the small ring d, and the pressure relaxed, the two
sides a and b of the hook having in elastic tendency outwards, will so spring apart
as to prevent the nose of the hook repassing through the ring d, except by the
re-application of the compression, thus no ordinary accidental occurrence can cause
the spring hook to be detached from the eye of the small ring d, hence my invention
is an improvement upon ordinary curtain pins, and a further improvement is that by

page_text: providing the curtain pin with spring hook of the hind above described the length
of this can be reduced and a saving of material thereby is gained
And although I have spoken of iny invention only is applicable for the suspension
of curtains, I may also use it for the safer suspension of other articles, as for instance,
in the hanging and displaying of light goods in shop windows
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 I
claim is
The forming out of one piece of wire, a curtain pin provided with a hook, the nose
of which is of a form which causes the two sides of the hook to have an elastic
tendency outwards, so that by compressing the nose of the hook with one's fingers,
this can easily be passed through the small ring of the curtain pole ring, and then
the pressure of the fingers being relaxed, the nose is by the elastic tendency outwards
of its sides, prevented from repassing without the re-application of the pressure
Dated this Tenth day of January 1889
F G HEATH,
Agent for Julius Berbecker