AN IMPROVEMENT IN LACE AND OTHER WINDOW CURTAINS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, FREDERICK HARRY GOODYER, of Broad Marsh, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire,
Lace Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN LACE AND OTHER WINDOW CURTAINS," and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to window curtains particularly those made of lace
and it has for its object to improve such curtains whereby they are rendered more
ornamental and convenient than as hitherto made.
The Invention consists in forming a long slit or division along a part of the
middle of a curtain in the direction of its length. The adjacent edges of this cut
portion are suitably .scalloped or otherwise formed and braided. When fitting the
improved curtain before a window, the slit or division in the middle is placed
at about the middle of the window and each side of the division is gathered
together or drawn towards the outer edges of the curtain and looped or held at
each side of the window thus forming an ornamental opening in the curtain
which covers the top, sides, and bottom of the window leaving the centre or
thereabouts uncovered.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and representing my improvement in curtains. In these
drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
On the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1, represents a front view of a
curtain made with my improvement as suspended against a wall and Figure 2,
represents the same curtain as arranged against a window. The improved
curtain I, has cut or formed in at about its middle a long slit 2, in the direction
of its length from A to B. This slit 2 has its edges scalloped or otherwise formed
and bound with tape or braid in a well known manner similarly to the outer edges
of the curtain. When fitting the curtain to a window if it be of the kind described
in the Specification of Letters Patent No 15,746 of 1884 granted to me, the portion
of the curtain utilised to form a lambrequin is placed over a curtain pole or the
curtain otherwise suspended in front of a window with the slit or opening 2, at
about the middle of the window. The two portions of the curtain on each side

page_text: of the slit 2, are then gathered or brought to the outer edges 3, of the curtain
and secured to the sides of the window by suitable cords or otherwise so as to
leave an opening in the curtain in the middle of the window. By this novel
arrangement an ornamental effect is obtained by means of one curtain with a
narrow or other sized window where two curtains have been required hitherto.
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 cutting or forming of a slit or opening in or about the middle of a window
curtain substantially as and for the purposes herein before described with reference
to the accompanying drawings.