Improved Curtain Rod and Fold Controlling Device.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1898-Accepted, 2nd July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Curtain Rod and Fold Controlling Device.
We, CARL LOTHAR EDUARD BUSSE, Merchant, and FRANZ RICHARD KUHNEL,
Work-Master, both of No. 9, Werderscher Market, Berlin, in the German Empire,
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:-
Our invention relates to an improved curtain rod with fold-controlling device.
The improvement in the present invention consists essentially in that the
curtains or other decorative fabrics are secured without binding and without pins
in the very shortest space of time both firmly and tastefully, and can be per-
manently and conveniently attached by unpractised hands.
The new method of fastening in which the folds are accurately determined is
effected by the insertion of the fabric in the wedge shaped apertures, which are
then made fast by the insertion of wedges or clips. In place of the wedge shaped
apertures in the rod there might be special projections attached made of porcelain,
zine, sheet iron, or other rigid material; or these again might be secured upon a
special sliding bar and be arranged adjustably, so that the folds could be formed
at any desired part, and might also be grouped together. The curtain rod a¹ can,
however, be simplified, even without special wedges or clips d, as shewn in
Figure 4, in which the bar, which may for instance be constructed of strong wire,
has wedge shaped or folding recesses formed therein. In this case the material
to be suspended from it must be hemmed above or in some like manner possess a
hollow seam through which the bar can then be passed. This arrangement can
also be used in combination with the curtain rods at present commonly in use.
Referring to the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 illustrates the improved curtain rod a with attached fold producer b,
and shows the wedge shaped aperture the whole being viewed from above. The
curtains or the like to be suspended are inserted in the aperture c, and if necessary
may be folded double and are therein secured by special wedges or clips d (see
Figure 3) and thereby held fast.
Figure 2 shews a side view of the curtain rod with the wedges or clips d, and
the folded curtain e.
Figure 3 illustrates the wedge or clips d itself.
Figure 4 shews a curtain rod a formed of iron or other metallic wire in a
simplified construction having the above described projections or recesses c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:.
1. The improved curtain rod a having a fold controlling device b in which are
arranged projections or wedge shaped recesses c: in combination with wedges or
clips, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

page_text: 2. In curtain holders of the kind set forth in Claim 1 the modification herein-
before described and illustrated in Figure 4 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 31st day of May 1898.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicants.