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Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1887.
Complete Left, 16th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 13th Sept., 1887.
I, JOHN FREDERICK FORTH, of Commerce Square, Nottingham, Commission
Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in lace curtains and window blinds described
in the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me, dated June 15th 1885
No. 7266, and consists in providing each lace curtain and window blind adjacent to
both the upper and lower ends with a band or bands of cloth-work across their whole
width, each band has holes formed in it, as the curtain is made, the remainder is
made with a valance of any desired pattern above the upper band or bands and
below the lower band or bands. Upon the curtain or blind being folded across
midway between the bands, the holes in each band will be opposite each other, and
upon a cord or rod being threaded through both rows of holes, the portion at the
upper end forming the valance will fall down over the curtain the folded portion
between the bands forming a folded frill which may be gathered upon the cord or
rod before described the portion at the lower end when gathered upon a second cord
or rod may either form a frill or a lower valance according to the pattern of the curtain
or blind. By such means a curtain or blind may be suspended by a cord or rod at.
the upper end, or may be stretched by means of a cord or rod at both ends. In
either case the curtain or blind may be gathered so as to fit any window of less than
its own width.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lace Curtains and Window Blinds.
I, JOHN FREDERICK FORTH of Commerce Square, Nottingham, Commission Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of my 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 lace curtains and window blinds described.
in the specification of former Letters Patent granted to me dated June 5th 1885 No. 7266,
and consists in providing each lace curtain and window blind adjacent to both the
upper and lower ends with bands of cloth work A across their whole width as shown
at Figure 1, each band has holes B formed in it as the curtain or window blind is
made, a valance of any desired pattern is made above the upper bands, and below
the lower bands.
Upon the curtain or blind being folded across midway at D between the bands, the
holes in each band will be opposite each other, and upon a cord or rod being threaded
through both rows of holes, the portion at the upper end forming the valance will fall
down over the curtain or blind, the folded portion between the bands forming a
folded frill which may be gathered upon the rod or cord before described.
The portion at the lower end will form a valance if a second cord or rod is threaded
through the holes B in either of the bands of cloth work A, but if the lower end is
folded across midway between the bands of cloth work, and a cord or rod is threaded
through both rows of holes, the portion at the lower end will then form a shallow
valance, below the folded frill gathered upon the second cord or rod.
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By such incans a curtain or blind may be suspended by a cord or rod near the
upper end or may be stretched by means of a cord or rod at each end. In either
case the curtain or blind may be gathered so to fit any window of less than its own
width.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
The construction of lace curtains and window blinds with cloth bands near each
end across their whole width, each band having holes therein for the insertion of a
cord or rod, substantially as described for the purposes set forth, and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
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