CURTA AND BLIN
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Hooke at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st July 1880.
EDWIN HOOKE, of Clapham Road, in the County of Surrey.
IN WINDOW CURTAINS AND BLINDS."
"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement, application, and
method of making up and mounting window curtains, blinds, or screens made of
paper and other materials, so as to reduce the cost of such materials.
My improvements are more particularly applicable to the construction of short
blinds and curtains made of paper ready to be placed across the lower part of a
window, so as to represent a curtain made of muslin or other fabric, or an ordinary
metallic wire blind.
For this purpose in carrying out the first part of my improvements upon a shoot
of paper of suitable size, white, plain, or coloured, I print or otherwise delineate on
one or both sides a suitabló design representing a short curtain for a window.
About a 1/4 of an inch from the top on one side I paste a band of linen or other
suitable material, two inches in width, or thereabouts, of sufficient strength to
prevent the curtain from tearing when suspended.
When dry this band is folded down the centre, and the paper above the band is
made to adhere to the surface, on to which it folds, thus forming a continuous loop
along the top of the curtain, through which a tape, stick, or rod may be passed upon
which to hang the curtain. The bottom of the curtain may be formed with a loop
in like manner to the top if desired.
Instead of a continuous loop, a band along the top may be made of one or more
layers of any suitable strengthening material, having eyelets or metallic hooks
upon which the curtain or blind may be hung.
The imitation metallic bands may be formed along the top by gilding or silvering,
instead of using paper.
The patterns may be printed in different colours to carry out the designs, which
may represent muslin, lace, or draped white materials, with ornamental trimmings
and designs.
The prints may be upon other materials besides paper, such as cardboard,
buckram, or woven materials, and the pattern representing the curtain may be
woven in the material instead of being printed upon it.
When limp, woven, or other limp materials are used, the band pasted or fixed
along the top should be of paper or other suitable material to give it stiffness.
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page_text: The shapes of the curtains or blinds may be made suitable for windows of all
kinds, or for street door lights.
In order to imitate a metallic band according to my improvements, along the top
I paste or fix over the curtain when made a band of gilded or silvered paper, or a
band of imitation gilt or silvered paper, or a band representing any other kind of
metal of suitablo width.
In making an imitation wire blind in accordance with my Invention, the pattern
is printed on one or both sides of the paper, the continuous loop being mado both
at the top and the bottom, and a loose piece made adhesive on one side is supplied
with each blind representing a portion of the frame, so that the blind can be made
up to fit any window.
After the pattern representing the wire blind is printed, the portion representing
the wire may if desired be embossed.
Blinds representing cane or laths are also made according to my improvements
with loops and loose pieces (adhesive on one side) supplied with tlicin, representing
portions of the frame, so that they may be made up to fit any window.