Curtain Ring.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
Curtain Ring.
I, MARIE GAIR, Lady, residing at No. 51 Leonard Avenue, in the City of New
York, State of New York, U.S.A., 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:-
The object of my invention is to provide improved means for sustaining a curtain,
or portiere.
My invention consists in the combination of a ring formed of a single piece of
metal, having out-turned end portions, and a duplex hook formed of a single piece
of wire adapted for connection with the said out-turned end portions of the said
ring.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete fixture.
Fig. 2 is an edge view.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view, illustrating a modification.
In the construction of the device as shown, the numeral 10 designates a ring
formed of a single piece of bar, or sheet, metal having rounded terminals, which
piece of metal is concavo-convex in cross-section and having its end portions bent
outwardly at right angles to the body portion thereof to form flanges 11, 12, which
flanges are initially plane in cross-section.
A rivet 13 is transversely seated in apertures in the flanges 11, 12, and rigidly
positions said flanges relative to each other.
A duplex hook 14 is formed of a single piece of wire, bent transversely at its
center, and formed into an eye 15 at the point of bending, said eye being open at
its lower portion, as shown at 16 in Fig. 2. The wire extends in opposite directions
in horizontal aligning planes from the eye 15 to points of downward bending 17, 18.
The wire extends from the points of downward bending 17, 18 downwardly in
vertical planes parallel to the vertical axis of the fixture, and diverges rearwardly
from the vertical plane of the horizontal portions of said wire, the positioning of
the planes of the downwardly extending portions 19, 20, relative to the remaining
portions, being clearly discernible from the drawings. The remaining portions 21, 22
of the length of wire are compoundly curved, thus carrying the same forwardly
and upwardly, the upper extremities 23, 24 of said wire being attenuated to a great
degree of fineness.
The eye 15 of the duplex hook embraces, and is sustained by, the central
portion of the rivet 13 between the flanges 11, 12 of the ring, and has a connection
thereby with the said flanges.
In the practical use of this device, the ring is adapted to be suspended upon a
curtain pole, the convex surface of the piece of metal, of which the ring is formed,
resting upon said pole, thus providing for a very slight resting base for the ring on
said pole. The curtain 26 is adapted to be suspended from the fixture by the
insertion of the hooks through the fabric of the curtain, or, if it is desired, rings,
(not shown) may be affixed to the curtain and suspended on said hooks.
In Fig. 3 the ring 27 is made of an integral piece of flat metal the portions of
which that are near the ends being circular in cross-section and twisted together
at 28 and then formed into hooks 29 which are separated a considerable distance.

page_text: 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:
. 1. As an article of manufacture, a ring as 10, in combination with two hooks
separated a distance from each other and separate from said ring, and a suitable
fastening for securing both hooks to said ring substantially as herein specified.
2. A curtain ring formed of a single piece of metal with portions adjacent its
ends twisted together and formed into hooks which are separated a distance.
Dated this 9th day of April 1895.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.