Improvements in Combined Curtain Hooks and Pins.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 18th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Curtain Hooks and Pins.
1, CLIFFORD SMITH, of Vesey Road, Wylde Green, near Sutton Coldfield,
Warwickshire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has reference to combined curtain hooks and pins for use in
suspending window curtains and other curtains.
A well known kind of combined curtain hook and pin consists of a pin somewhat
similar to a safety pin but having one limb coiled into a loop to which is connected
a hook which when in use passes through the eye of the cornice pole ring. Some
care is required to so pin these curtain hooks on to the curtain that the hooks all
point outwardly from the curtain otherwise it will be found difficult to hook the
hook through the eye of the cornice pole ring.
This invention consists in so connecting the curtain hook to the pin that the
hook can be turned round or partly round relatively to the pin thus rendering it
immaterial which way the curtain pin is pinned to the curtain.
According to one method of carrying out my invention instead of making the
usual vertical coil in the limb of the curtain pin to engage with the hook I make
the coil about horizontal, that is to say the axis of the coil is about vertical when
the combined hook and pin are in use. The curtain hook passes through this coil
and has a knob or enlargement at that end which connects to the curtain pin so
that the curtain pin is carried on this knob or enlargement of the hook and the
latter can swivel round in the coil and point in either direction as may be required.
Moreover this swivel hook can at any time be unthreaded from the coil of the
pin and the pin and hook be separated, or connected together again by threading
the hook through the said coil.
In a modification of my invention the curtain pin is made in the usual way with
the coil vertical and the swivel hook passes through a hole in a link which latter
passes through the said coil of the curtain pin.
In a further modification of my invention both the curtain hook and the curtain
pin are made in the usual way but instead of the curtain hook being hooked directly
into the coil of the curtain pin as is usual I connect them together by one or more
short chain links which allow of the hook being turned round in either direction
through a certain distance for the purpose stated above.
Dated this 17th day of May 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Curtain Hooks and Pins.
CLIFFORD SMITH Vesey Road Wylde Green near Sutton Coldfield Warwick-
shire Manufacturer 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 has reference to combined curtain hooks and pins for use in
suspending window curtains and other curtains.
A well known kind of combined curtain hook and pin consists of a pin somewhat
similar to a safety pin but having one linked coiled into a loop to which is
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page_text: connected a hook which when in use passes through the eye of the cornice pole
ring. Some care is required to so pin these curtain hooks on to the curtain that
the hooks all point outwardly from the curtain otherwise it will be found difficult
to hook the hook through the eye of the cornice pole ring.
This invention consists in so connecting the curtain hook to the pin that the
hook can be turned round or partly round relatively to the pin thus rendering it
immaterial which way the curtain pin is pinned to the curtain.
FIGURE 1.
According to one method of carrying out my invention instead of making the
usual vertical coil in the limb of the curtain pin to engage with the hook. I make
the coil about horizontal see Fig. 6 that is to say the axis of the coil is about
vertical when the combined hook & pin are in use, Fig. 1. The curtain hook
passes through this coil F. and has a knob or enlargement at that end which
connects to the curtain pin so that the curtain pin is carried on this knob or
enlargement of the hook (A) and the latter can swivel round in the coil E and
point in either direction as may be required. Moreover this swivel hook can at
any time be unthreaded from the coil of the piu and the pin and hook be separated
or connected together again by threading the hook through the said coil E.
CLIFFORD SMITH.