Improvements in Portiere or Door Curtain Rods.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1897
Improvements in Portiere or Door Curtain Rods.
THOMAS PURSEY Artist 41 Bath Street Portobello Edinburgh do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I make an arm of metal or other suitable material about eighteen inches long.
I attach by means of a pinching screw, the top of said arm, to the bottom of a
bracket of a rising portiere, or door curtain rod, in such a manner that it can hang
downwards, and slightly inwards, towards the middle of the door.
The bottom of the bracket is attached to the door, on the side that it opens, and
in such a manner that it can move upwards and downwards. This bracket is in a.
slanting position at an angle of about forty five degrees off the perpendicular,
pointing inwards towards the middle of the door.
I now attach the bottom of said arm, by means of a cord or chain to the curtain,
at the opening side of door. The combined action of the above arm and
bracket is as follows. On opening the door, the bracket is raised from the slanting
to the perpendicular position, and the arm being fixed to the bracket, is compelled
to follow its action, which raises said arm to a position nearly horizontal.
The object of said combined action being to draw the curtain, by means of the
cord or chain away from the opening side of door towards the middle: thus
obviating the necessity of pushing back curtain in passing in and out.
Dated this 17th dar of March 1896.
I THOMAS PURSEY Artist of 41 Bath Street Portobello near Edinburgh
Scotland, 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 has for its object improvements in portiere or door curtain rods, by
which the opening of the door to which a portiere rod is attached causes. the
curtain carried by it to be festooned or pulled back towards the middle of the
door.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings in which :-..
Figure 1, shows a door D, with the bracket B, and arm A mounted upon it in
the position they would assume when the door is closed.
Figure 2 shows the same door D partly open and the bracket B and the arm A
in a somewhat altered position and approximately a such like position as they
would assume under the conditions.

page_text: Figure 3 is a front view of arm A attached to bracket B.
Figure 4 is a side view of Figure 3.
Figure 5 is an alternative mode of forming the bracket B and arm A of one
piece.
Figure 6 is a side view of Figure 5.
For the purpose of my invention, I secure a curtain rod R to the top of door D
and door frame F by means of two brackets B and B which are jointed at their
upper ends to the curtain rod R, the lower end of bracket B is jointed to the
door D, the lower end of bracket B¹ is jointed to the door frame F. These
brackets are so bent that while their lower ends bear against the door D and door
frame Frespectively their upper ends jointed to the rod R are at a distance of
about three inches from the plane of the door.
To about the middle of the door frame F, immediately above the door D, I
secure one end of a coupling rod E, the other end of coupling rod E is jointed to
the curtain rod R near the bracket B¹.
The combined action of the above arrangement of curtain rod, brackets and
coupling rod is to raise the curtain on the door being opened; in closing the door
the curtain is lowered.
When the door is closed bracket B is in its normal position, inclined at an angle
of about forty five degrees off the perpendicular towards the hinged edge of door.
In order to cause the bracket B to festoon the curtain C as shown in Figure 2 of
the accompanying drawings I proceed as follows:-
I attach the top of an arm A about eighteen inches long by means of a pinching
screw P, or other suitable means, to the bottom of bracket B in such a manner
that it can hang downwards and slightly inwards towards the middle of door D.
To the bottom of said arm A. I attach one end of a cord or chain H, the other end
of cord or chain H I attach to or near edge of curtain C on the opening side of
door D somewhere near the door handle as shown in Figure 1.
An alternative mode of forming bracket B and arm A, instead of being made
separately and fixed together as above described they may be made of one piece as
shown in Figure 3.
The combined action of the above arrangement of bracket B, arm A and cord
or chain H is that as the door opens the bracket B is pushed upwards to a
perpendicular position, the arm A being fixed to the bracket B is compelled to
follow its upward action which raises the said arm A. to a nearly horizontal
position, taking with it the cord H and the part of the curtain C attached to cord H
as shown in Figure 2. In closing the door an action the reverse of that described
as attending the opening of the door occurs.
The object of said combined action being to draw the curtain away from the
opening side of door thus obviating the necessity of pushing back the curtain in
passing in and out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in portiere or door curtain rods, consisting of the arm A fixed
to bracket B, and operated by the bracket B so that the arm A draws the cord H
and curtain C attached to cord H towards the middle of the door D, or lets it
back according to the movement of the door D, substantially as herein described,
and as set forth and shown upon the drawings by Figures 1 to 6 inclusive.
Dated this 26th CN 1906