Year: 1888

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We RALPH TILTON of 1403 Pacific Street Brooklyn, in the County of Kings and
State of New York, United States of America, Hardware Dealer, and MARTIN
COWEN of Buena Park, Chicago, in the County of Cook and State of Ullinois United
States of America, Hardware Dealer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows
This invention relates to the means used for suspending curtains or drapery generally
in a drawing or sliding manner upon rods, poles or their equivalents safety, pins
adapted to engage with the drapery, and provided with hooks which pass through
eyes in sliding rings upon the pole of overhead carrier, are ordinarily used for this
purpose, but such devices, besides being costly, are objectionable, not only on
account of the unsightly appearance, in some cases, of the pin portion of the fastening
and its liability to tear or pucker the drapery, but on account of the liability, as such
fastenings are ordinarily constructed, of the hook portion of the fastening to detach
itself from the eye in the sliding ring, on jerking the curtain, and the unsuitableness
of such a fastening to drapery having folds or box plaits in it
Our invention consists in a suspension hook for curtains or drapery constructed of
a piece of spring metal of peculiar bent combined staple and hook-like form, and in
a combination of the same with a sliding curtain or diapery ring, having an eye
adapted to receive through it the spring prongs of the hook, which automatically
lock therewith.
The drapery hook is made of a piece of spring metal, preferably wire, but sheet
metal will answer The hook is of staple-like form and consists of a middle member
or cross bar forming the head or back, and of side members which are doubled or
bent backwards on themselves, the extremities being pointed or sharpened and
diverging at acute angles from the other portions or shanks of the side members so as to
form spring prongs
In one form of hook the side members converge towards each
other at the bends whilst the prongs which lie in about the same planes as the shanks
diverge from each other and also curve away from their shanks, the latter divergency
of the pointed ends of these prongs being preferably equal to the length of the middle
cross member or back for a reason that will be hereinafter stated.

page_text: In applying hooks of this form their prongs while spread out or expanded are
forced through the piece of drapery from the outside thereof, and, by suitably turning
or manipulating the hooks, the shanks of the side members are also passed through
the drapery, leaving the cross bars or backs exposed on the outside thereof, and the
laterally diverging prongs inclining downward toward the drapery at its back. The
points of the spring prong portions are then pressed together to pass them through
the eyes of the sliding rings and then allowed to spring back to their normal position,
which effectually prevents the hooks from being jerked or accidently passing out of
the eyes of the rings by any pull that may be made upon the curtain or drapery.
Such hooks will neither tear nor pucker the drapery especially when the prongs are
at the same distance apart at their points, which first penetrate the drapery, as the
back of the hook is long, and an automatic locking of the hook with the eye of the
sliding ring, by the outward lateral spring of the prongs, is ensured.
The side members need not however be made converging and the elastic prongs
flaring, but in applying the hook it will be necessary to press the sides together till
they converge as well as to press together the elastic prong portions to enable the
latter to pass through the eye on the hook.

page_text: Improvements in Curtain or Drapery Hooks.
We, RALPH TILTON, of 1403, Pacific Street, Brooklyn, in the County of Kings,
and State of New York, United States of America, Hardware Dealer, and MARTIN
COWEN, of Buena Park, Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, United
States of America, Hardware Dealer, 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 relates to the means used for suspending curtains or drapery
generally in a drawing or sliding manner upon rods, poles, or their equivalents.
Safety pins, adapted to engage with the drapery and provided with hooks which
pass through eyes in sliding rings upon the pole or overhead carrier, are ordinarily
used for this purpose but such devices, besides being costly, are objectionable not
only on account of the unsightly appearance, in some cases, of the pin portion of
the fastening and its liability to tear or pucker the drapery but on account of the
liability, as such fastenings are ordinarily constructed, of the hook portion of the
fastening to detach itself from the eye in the sliding ring on Jerking the curtain
and the unsuitableness of such a fastening to drapery having folds or box-plaits
in it.
Our Invention consists in a suspension hook for curtains or drapery constructed
of a piece of spring metal of peculiar bent combined staple and hook-like form,
substantially as hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims, and in a
combination of the same with a sliding curtain or drapery ring having an eye
adapted to receive through it the spring prongs of the hook which automatically lock
therewith.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specifi-
cation, in which figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a curtain or other like
pole, and piece of curtain or drapery in part, with our improved suspension or drapery
hook applied in connection with sliding rings on the pole. Figure 2 is a view in
perspective of the drapery hook detached, and figure 3 a perspective view of a
modified form of said hook. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in all the figures
Referring to figures 1 and 2 of the drawing, A indicates the drapery hook made of
a piece of spring metal preferably wire but sheet metal will answer. The hook is of
staple like form and consists of a middle member or cross-bar forming the head or
back b and of side members c c which are doubled or bent backwards on themselves,
the extremities being pointed or sharpened and diverging at acute angles from the
other portions or shanks of the side members c c so as to form spring prongs d d.
In one form of hook, shewn in figures 1 and 2, the side members converge towards
each other at the bends whilst the prongs d which lie in about the same planes as
the shanks c diverge from each other and also curve away from their shanks the
lateral divergency of the pointed ends of these prongs being preferably equal to the
length of the middle cross-member or back 6 for a reason that will be hereinafter
stated. B indicates the rod or pole from which the drapery or curtain C is suspended
by means of any number of the hooks A and sliding rings D provided each with a
lower eye e.

page_text: In applying hooks A of this form, their prongs d d while spread out or expanded
are forced through the piece of drapery C from the outside thereof and by suitably
turning or manipulating the hooks the shanks c c of the side members are also passed
through the drapery leaving the cross-bars or backs b exposed on the outside thereof and
the laterally diverging prongs d d inclining downward towards the drapery at its back.
The points of the spring prong portions d d are then pressed together to pass them
through the eyes e of the sliding rings D and then allowed to spring back to their
normal position which effectually prevents the hooks from being jerked or accidentally
passing out of the eyes e of the rings by any pull that may be made upon the curtain
or drapery.
By the construction as described of the hooks which may be made much cheaper
than any combined safety-pin and hook, said hooks A are equally applicable to either
folded or plain and flat surfaces of the drapery, as shewn respectively at the left and
right hand sides of figure 1. Such hooks too, will neither tear nor pucker the drapery
especially when the prongs d d are at the same distance apart at their points which
first penetrate the drapery as the back b of the hook is long and an automatic locking
of the hook with the eye of the sliding ring by the outward lateral spring of the prongs
is ensured.
Figure 3 of the drawing represents a substantially similar construction of staple-like
hook for use in a like manner, that is by passing the hooked portion of the fastening
through the drapery and engaging such portion with the eye on the ring, but the
sides c c are not made converging nor are the elastic prongs d d laterally flaring. In
applying the hook however, it will be necessary to press the sides c c together till
they converge as well as to press together the elastic prong portions d d to enable
the latter to pass through the eye on the hook.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
:-
° 1. The elastic-staple-like hook herein described, for suspending curtains or drapery,
composed of a bar-like head or back and sides bent to terminate in prongs inclining
downward and away from said head or back, essentially as specified.
2. A hook for suspending curtains or drapery, constructed of a piece of spring
metal bent to form a bar-like head or back b, converging sides c c and laterally-flaring
elastic prongs d d inclining downward toward the head or back and of a distance
apart at their points corresponding, or thereabouts, to the length of the head or back,
substantially as specified.
of
3. The combination, with a sliding curtain or drapery ring C having an eye e,
the within described spring metal staple-like hook A adapted to suspend a curtain or
piece of drapery and to automatically lock with the eye in the ring, essentially as
set forth.