Improvements in Hooks for Suspending Curtains, Valances, Sacks, and for other like purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks for Suspending Curtains, Valances, Sacks,
and for other like purposes.
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I, WILLIAM HAWKES RYLAND, of 43, Hockley Hill, in the City of
Birmingham, Metallurgist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in making hooks for suspending curtains, valances, sacks
and for other like purposes of the improved forms hereindescribed. Curtain hooks,
valance suspenders, sack hooks and other like hooks made in accordance with my
invention are very strong and very cheap to manufacture and they are readily
attached to or detached from the curtains valances sacks or the like with which
they are used and when once properly attached the curtains or valances sacks or the
like cannot be pulled away from the hooks, as is the case in some of the ordinary
curtain hooks and valance suspenders.
A curtain hook made according to this invention consists of a single piece of wire
which is pointed at one end and is bent so as to form two hooks namely an upper
hook which may be of the usual form and which hooks into the eye of the curtain
ring or on to the curtain rod, and a lower hook which is shaped in a peculiar
manner to attach to the curtain. This lower hook is formed by bending the wire
into the shape of a hollow square or into a hollow oblong, or triangle, circle, oval
or other form or merely as an ordinary hook in a plane at or about at right angles
to the plane of the said upper hook the pointed end of the wire being turned
upwardly or pointing in a horizontal direction across the hook.
To attach the hook above described to a curtain the pointed end of the lower hook
is passed through the curtain from one side to the other and back again and the hook
then pushed farther through the curtain and turned far enough to bring the upper
hook in position standing up at or near the top of the curtain which latter then lies
securely in the bottom part of the lower hook.
I make a valance suspender or a sack hook or other like hook similarly to the
curtain hooks above described but when the valance suspender is required to hook
on to the side angle irons of the bedstead or cot the said upper hook has to be made
of a shape and size to hook on to the said angle irons.
Dated this 28th day of November 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks for Suspending Curtains, Valances, Sacks,
and for other like purposes.
I, WILLIAM HAWKES RYLAND, of 43, Hockley Hill, in the City of
Birmingham, Metallurgist, 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 consists in making hooks for suspending curtains, valances, sacks
and for other like purposes of the improved forms hereindescribed. Curtain hooks,
valance suspenders, sack hooks and other like hooks made in accordance with my
invention are very strong and very cheap to manufacture and they are readily
attached to or detached from the curtains valances sacks or the like with which
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page_text: they are used and when once properly attached the curtains or valances sacks or
the like cannot be pulled away from the hooks, as is the case in some of the
ordinary curtain hooks and valance suspenders.
A curtain hook made according to this invention consists of a single piece of wire
which is pointed at one end and is bent so as to form two hooks namely an upper
hook which may be of the usual form and which hooks into the eye of the curtain
ring or on to the curtain rod, and a lower hook which is shaped in a peculiar
manner to attach to the curtain. This lower hook is formed by bending the wire
into the shape of a hollow square or into a hollow oblong, or triangle, circle, oval or
other form or merely as an ordinary hook in a plane at or about at right angles to
the plane of the said upper hook the pointed end of the wire being turned upwardly
or pointing in a horizontal direction across the hook.
To attach the hook above described to a curtain the pointed end of the lower hook
is passed through the curtain from one side to the other and back again and the hook
is then pushed farther through the curtain and turned far enough to bring the upper
hook in position standing up at or near the top of the curtain which latter then lies
securely in the bottom part of the lower hook.
I make a valance suspender or a sack hook or other like hook similarly to the
curtain hooks above described but when the valance suspender is required to hook
on to the side angle irons of the bedstead or cot the said upper hook has to be made
of a shape and size to hook on to the said angle irons.
In order that my said invention may be well understood I have illustrated the
same on the accompanying sheet of drawings on which the same letters of reference
indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the figures and on which
Fig. 1 represents in front elevation side elevation and in plan one form of curtain
hook made according to this invention and
Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate the method of attaching the said curtain hook to a
curtain.
It will be seen that the piece of wire forming this curtain hook shewn in Figs. 1,
2 and 3 is pointed at one end a' and is bent so as to form the upper hook B and the
lower hook A. The upper hook B is of the form usual in curtain hooks to hook
into the eye of the curtain ring or on to the curtain rod and the lower hook A which
attaches to the curtain is in the form of a hollow oblong disposed in a vertical plane
at about right angles to the plane of the hook B the pointed end a¹ of the wire
pointing in a horizontal direction across the upper part of the hook A. To attach
this hook Fig. 1 to a curtain in order to suspend the same the hook is inverted and
held in the position shewn in Fig. 2 and the pointed end is passed through the
curtain from one side to the other and back again and the hook is then pushed
farther through the curtain and at the same time turned far enough to bring the
upper hook B in the position shewn in Fig. 3 standing up at or near the top of the
curtain which latter then lies securely in the bottom of the lower hook A.
The modified form of my improved curtain hook shewn by Fig. 4 is somewhat
similar in shape to that shewn by Fig. 1 except that the part of the hook A which
is pointed at a¹ lies in the same plane as the bottom bar of the hook A instead of
being above the same as in the hook shewn by Fig. 1. This curtain hook shewn by
Fig. 4 and the other hooks shewn by Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are used in a similar manner
to that hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.
Fig. 5 shews another form of curtain hook made in accordance with this invention
in which the lower hook A is of triangular form the pointed end of the wire being
turned upwardly as shewn.
Fig. 6 shews another form of my improved curtain hook in which the lower hook A
is similar to the lower hook A of the curtain hook shewn by Fig. 1 and the upper
hook B is almost of circular form so as to slide on the curtain rod.
Fig. 7 shews another form of my improved curtain hook which is similar to that
shown by Fig. 1 except that in this curtain hook shewn by Fig. 7 there is a
longer space between the top of the hook B and the bottom of the hook A.
Fig. 8 shews another form of my improved curtain hook in which the lower

page_text: hook A is made of circular form. This form of hook is particularly useful to
pawnbrokers and others for suspending garments from a curtain rod.
I make hooks for suspending sacks dresses and other like articles of clothing and
for other purposes of the same shapes as hereinbefore described and illustrated on
my drawing for use in suspending curtains.
Fig. 9 shews my invention constructed for suspending valances from the side
angle irons of a bedstead or cot the upper hook A being made of the shape shewn
by Fig. 9 so as to hook on to the angle irons.
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 :-
1. The improved wire hooks for suspending curtains, valances, sacks and for other
like purposes, hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing,
that is to say, a hook for the purpose set forth consisting of a piece of wire bent so as
to form an ordinary upper hook such as B to take on to a bar or rod or into a
curtain ring or the like and a lower hook such as A of a hollow triangular or other
hollow form disposed in a plane at about right angles to the plane of the upper hook
the pointed end of the said lower hook lying and pointing across the lower hook
all substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
2. In a double wire hook for suspending curtains valances sacks and for other like
purposes in which the upper hook is adapted to take on to a rod or bar or into a ring
or eye, forming the lower hook in any of the several forms substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing so as to hook on to a
curtain or valance or the like in the manner hereinbefore set forth and shewn.
3. The manufacture and sale of wire hooks made of any of the various forms
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing
for suspending curtains valances sacks and for other like purposes.
Dated this 28th day of August 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.