Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1889
I, ALEXANDER BARR, of 2 Bothwell Terrace, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object the forming of curtain hooks in an improved,
simple, and economical manner.
In carrying out my Invention I take a convenient length of brass or other suitable
wire possessing some clasticity or resiliency, and bend it into the form of a long
staple but with the head or part connecting the two legs straight and joining the legs
with small bends or corners. The staple-like piece is next bended so as to bring the
head over towards the ends of the wire; and then the parts of the wire at the bends
formed at the second operation are indented inwards towards each other so as to form
a narrow neck. The ends of the wire are. pointed at any convenient stage of the
operations; and in the finished hook the points are made as far apart or nearly so as
the length of the head or part connecting the two legs.
In using the book the points are first passed through the curtain near the top edge,
the curtain being plaited, gathered, or fulled at the part if desired. The hook is next
turned over so as to bring the part of the curtain between the two perforations upon
the head or part connecting the two legs. In hooking up the curtain the two points
of each hook are pressed together and entered through the eyelet of the ring on the
curtain pole; and when the pointed ends are so far through that the eyelet is at the
neck they spring apart again, and cause the hook to be securely retained in the eyelet,
so that it cannot be jerked out, whilst the curtain is completely locked upon the head
by the eyelet being on the neck of the hook.
Ninth day of April 1888
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: I, ALEXANDER BARR, formerly of 2 Bothwell Terrace, but now of 141 Hill Street,
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Engineer, 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, that is to
say :-
My said Invention has for its object the forming of curtain hooks in an improved,
simple, and economical manner.
In carrying out my Invention according to a simple and convenient modification I
make a curtain hook of a shape obtained by taking a convenient length of brass or
other suitable wire possessing some elasticity or resiliency, and bending it into the
form of a long staple or hair pin, but with the head or part connecting the two legs
straight and joining the legs with small bends or corners. The staple-like piece is
next bended so as to bring the head over towards the ends of the wire; and then the
parts of the wire at the bends formed at the second operation are indented inwards
towards each other so as to form a narrow neck. The ends of the wire are pointed at
any convenient stage of the operations; and in the finished hook the points are made
about as far apart as the length of the head or part connecting the two legs.
On an accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings, figure, 1, is an elevation of a
curtain hook shaped as hereinbefore described, and figure, 2, is a vertical section as at
right angles to figure, 1. Figures, 3, 4, and 5, are elevations of modifications; and
figures, 6, 7, and 8, show some of the various modes in which the hooks may be used
in connecting curtains to curtain-pole rings. In these drawings the same reference
letters are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In the hook shown in figures, 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8, the part, A-B, on which the
curtain, C, rests is straight and is by preference hammered or stamped to make it
vertically flat and to stiffen it in order to diminish any tendency to bend by the
weight of the curtain, and for the part of the curtain between the perforations to
drag to the middle of the part, A-B. To further insure the keeping of the
curtain properly spread on the part, A-B, of the hook that part may be shaped
as in figure, 3, or as in figure, 4, or as in figure, 5, or in any other suitable
equivalent manner.
In using the hook in the manner which I consider preferable but to which I
by no means restrict myself, the points are first passed through the curtain, C,
near the top edge, the curtain being plaited, gathered, or fulled at the part if
desired. The hook is next turned over so as to bring the part of the curtain
between the two perforations on the part, A-B. In hooking up the curtain to
the curtain-pole rings, D, the two points of each hook are pressed together and
entered through the eyelet, E, of the ring; and when the pointed ends are so far
through that the eyelet is at the neck they spring apart again, and cause the
hook to be securely retained in the eyelet, so that it cannot be jerked out, whilst
the curtain is completely locked upon the part, A-B, by the eyelet being on the neck
of the hook.

page_text: In the example shown in figure, 6, the points of the hooks are passed through
one thickness of the curtain. As shown in figure, 7, a box plait is formed so that
the points pass through three thicknesses; and in figure, 8, whilst the curtain is
folded somewhat as shown in figure, 7, the hook points are passed through only
two thicknesses so as to leave the front part unperforated and free to stand out in a
tubular form.
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 :-
A curtain hook made with two distended and pointed legs which are connected by
bends to a part (A-B) connecting them together and supporting the curtain, the
book being such as when in position to rest by the said bends in the eyelet of the
curtain-pole ring, substantially as herein before described, and as shown in the accom-
panying drawings.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.