Improvements in Curtain Suspenders.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Feb., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Curtain Suspenders.
I MONTAGUE BARNABAS BEVERLY of 27 High Street Wandsworth in the County
of Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:―
These improvements relate to a novel way of suspending Curtains across a window
or door, and consist of an elastic material such as, India rubber or caoutchouc band,
or metal spring from which the curtain is suspended.
This band has a metal eyelit at each end for hooking on to a nail or other
contrivance and is considerably shorter than the opening across which the curtain is
to be suspended and thus when it is elongated and fixed it. remains perfectly tight and
will adapt itself to any sized opening of the window or door.
Dated this 5th day of Mov 1888
HUGHES & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: 1 MONTAGUE BARNABAS BEVERLY of 27 High Street, Wandsworth in the County
of Surrey Gentleman 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 relates to improvements in Curtain suspenders and consists of a
novel device whereby window curtains such as the small curtains usually suspended
on the lower part of a bedroom window may be more firmly held and more readily
and conveniently attached to the window frame than heretofore.
And in order that my Invention may be more fully understood-I have shewn the
same in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a curtain
applied to the lower flap of a window. Fig. 2 shows one end of my improved device
whose other end is shown in Fig. 3.
My Improved device consists of a band or cord B of resilient material such as
india-rubber caoutchouc or metalic spring furnished at the extremities with hollow
sheaths or rods R R¹ of brass or other suitable metal of different lengths. These rods
are tapered at their outward extremities and provided with eyelets H. I. as shown in
Figs. 2 and 3, the rod H being larger than the rod I for the purpose of serving as a
bodkin, and enable the band or cord B to be passed through the curtain or between
a band sewn to back thereof and the curtain proper.
The band B in its ordinary form is made of a shorter length than the width of
the window which has to be spanned, the eyelet I being fixed upon a nail hook or
other suitable contrivance n' secured to the window frame as shown in Fig. 1, while
the rod R is passed through the top edge of the curtain the band B being then tightly
drawn until the eyelet H can be attached to the other nail or hook n, the curtain being
now firmly suspended in position.
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 1
claim is :-
:-
An Improved device or band for suspending small curtains to windows arranged
and operating substantially as and for the purpose described.
HUGHES & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.