Improvements in connection with Portières or Ourtains for Doors..
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1895-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Portières or Ourtains for Doors..
I, NEHEMIAH VINALL of 80 Buxton Road Stratford, London, E. Salesman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in connection with portieres or curtains
for doors, and consists in providing means whereby such curtains can be lifted from
the ground direct from the bottoms, when the doors are opened, in such a manner
as to cause such portieres or curtains to fall into or assume graceful folds while at
the same time the risk of such curtains or portieres being damaged or torn will be
obviated.
In carrying out my invention, I provide a cord, chain, or the like, which at one
end, is connected to a suitable eye screwed or otherwise fixed into the mouldings of
the door lintel, the said cord or its equivalent being passed over the portiere-rod
and down between the curtain and the door, the lower end then being secured to the
outer corner of the curtain upon the inner side thereof, by means of a leaden or
other button having a counter-sunk opening through which the said end of the cord
or the like is inserted, such end then being knotted. The aforesaid button is
provided with perforations for the purpose of enabling such button to be sewn or
otherwise secured to the inner side of the curtain or portiere, and is of such a
weight as to counterbalance the action of the opening door upon the curtain. The
said button may also be bronzed or otherwise ornamented if desirable.
The portiere-rod is preferably secured to the upper part of the door in any
suitable manner, a sliding vertical projection or stop being provided upon such rod
near its outer end or that end which is farthest from the door-hinges, the before-
mentioned elevating cord or its equivalent being passed over the said portiere-rod,
to the outside of the said sliding projection or stop.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, Agents for the Applicant.
VODI DELE DI BUITIVATION.
Improvements in connection with Portières or Curtains for Doors.
1, NEHEMIAH VINALL of 80 Buxton Road, Stratford, London, E. Salesman,
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 improvements in portieres or door curtains and has for
its object to provide means whereby the lower parts of such portieres can be raised
from the ground, when the doors are opened in such a manner as to cause such
portieres to fall into or assume graceful folds, while at the same time the risk of
the said portieres being torn or otherwise damaged will be obviated.

page_text: And in order that this my invention may be the more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I have made reference to same upon the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of a portiere with my elevating device applied
thereto, and shewn in action.
Fig. 2. being an enlarged view of the upper part of the portiere, rod and
clevator, while
Fig. 3. is a view of a detail of the invention.
In carrying the invention into practice, I provide a cord, chain, or its equi-
valent a, which is attached at one end to a suitable screw-shanked eye or similar
object b, capable of being readily affixed to the jamb el or other convenient portion
of the door mouldings.
The said cord or its equivalent a is passed over the portiere-rod d¹ and downwards
between the portiere d and the door c through guide rings e attached to the inner
side of the former, the lower end of such cord, for instance, then being secured to
the inner side of the lower part of the said portiere, at or near the outer or forward
corner of same, as shewn by d². I preferably employ a leaden or other button or
plate (Fig. 3) having an opening or passage d, countersunk or otherwise,
through which the end of the cord a is passed, such end then being knotted, or the
said opening or passage may be compressed so as to cause the sides thereof to grip
the cord.
The said button or plate is fastened to the corner of the portiere in any
suitable manner, and is of such a weight as to cause the portiere to drop into its
original or normal position when the door c is closed.
The portiere-rod d' is fixed to the door c in any suitable manner, and is provided
with a vertical arm or stop d' (capable of a sliding adjustment or not, as desirable)
near the end farthest from the door-hinges, to maintain the cord a in place upon
the portiere-rod when the door is opened or closed.
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 improvements in connection with portieres or curtains for doors,
substantially as described and shewn.
2. In combination with a portiere-rod having a vertical arm or stop, a weighted
cord or its equivalent, arranged and operating substantially as specified and as
illustrated.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1895
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.