An Improved Frame for Stretching Lace or other Curtains upon.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Frame for Stretching Lace or other Curtains upon.
I ROBERT HALL of Hazlehurst Ramsbottom in the county of Lancaster Joiner do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable people to fix a curtain or curtains upon a
frame, which is made in such a form, that it will stand in any possition on a floor, or
can be hung upon a line, or hung up to a hook or hooks fixed into the ceiling of
a room.
Curtain stretchers at present have to be reared against a wall or hung upon a line
and are made the full size of the curtain or larger as the case may be.
The way in which this improved stretcher is made is as follows
Instead of the curtains being fixed all on one side of the frame, it is made shorter,
and the curtain is fixed along one side of the frame, and then taken round one end,
and returned along the other side as far as it will reach.
The stretcher is composed of rails top and bottom on each side, of two upright posts,
one at each end, the upright posts at each end being sett upon feet to stop them from
falling over, the same having holes at convenient distances to allow the cross rails, con-
taining the hooks, to be moved to the required width of the curtain, the rails being
secured to the uprights at each end, by a small wood pin or pins or thumb screw,
which can be screwed up tight, the whole frame becoming perfectly ridgid.
The ends of the curtain are secured by a light rail being fixed to the top and bottom
cross rails, by pins, which rails also contain holes at convenient distances, and pins to
hook the curtain upon.
The end at which the curtain is taken round, is made round, which rounded part is
fluted or groved so as to stop the curtain when starched from sticking thereto.
Dated this 20th day of February 1889.
ROBERT HALL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Frame for Stretching Lace or other Curtains upon.
I, ROBERT HALL of Hazlehurst, Ramsbottom in the County of Lancaster Joiner
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 improvements which are the subject of this invention relate to curtain
stretchers, and the object of this invention is to form a frame or stretcher which
will remain in an upright position when placed on any part of floor, and occupy less
space either when on floor, or when suspended from a line or ceiling, than curtain
stretchers at present in use which are made either the full length of, or longer than
curtain requiring to be stretched, and which have either to be supported if placed on
floor, or to be suspended from a line or from ceiling. In this invention, in lieu of
the curtain being fixed entirely on one side of the frame, and thus requiring a frame
the full length of said curtain, I construct a frame that is shorter than the curtain to be
stretched, and attach part of curtain to one side of said frame, passing the remaining
portion round one end of frame, and along the reverse side as far as the length of
curtain will permit: each end of a curtain is secured to a light rail which is placed on
each side of frame, and fixed in a vertical position to top and bottom cross rails by
means of set pins.

page_text: In order more clearly to describe this my invention, I have annexed hereunto a
sheet of drawings: in the several views therein shown similar letters refer to similar
parts:
Fig. 1 is front view, Fig. 2 plan, Fig. 3 end view of frame at A, and Fig. 4 end
view of frame at B.
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In these views the frame is shown formed of top and bottom longitudinal rails a
and 6 and two vertical rails c and d which are placed one at each end of said
longitudinal rails and secured thereto by means of moveable pins e: I form the ends of
aforesaid longitudinal rails with jaws c and d¹ in which to fit the vertical rails c
and d: On underside of top and upperside of bottom longitudinal rails a and b, I form
brackets which press against the inside of vertical rail c and d and keep said rails
in a vertical position: I form on, or attach to, lower ends of vertical rails c and d
suitable stands or feet g to enable aforesaid frame to be placed and remain in position
in any place or on any part of floor: I form holes at convenient distances in
vertical rails c and d in order that the longitudinal top and bottom rails a and b may
be placed nearer to each other or further apart by means of pins e as may be required
to suit the width of curtain to be stretched: I form adjustable vertical rails j and k
to which to secure ends of curtain. In order to attach a curtain to frame I first
place the top and bottom longitudinal rails a and b in a position to suit the width
of curtain: I then secure sides of curtain to curved pins m which are fixed in
longitudinal rails a and b and continue curtain on to end of frame at B returning the
remaining portion along the reverse side of frame. I then fasten one end of curtain to
pins which are fixed in vertical rail ; and attach the latter end of curtain to adjust-
able rail k which by means of the holes n I place in any position required to suit the
length of curtain: I make the end of frame at B where the curtain is taken round,
of a semi circular form which may be fluted or grooved in order to prevent the
curtains adhering thereto. The frame may be taken to pieces by withdrawing the
pins e.
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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
1st. A frame or stretcher that is employed for stretching lace or other curtains
upon, constructed so that said stretcher may not be required to be of the same length
but may be shorter than the curtain to be stretched, substantially in the manner and
for the purpose as herein before described.
2nd. A frame or stretcher that is employed for stretching lace or other curtains
upon, constructed so that said stretcher may be placed and remain in a vertical
position in any place, or on any part of floor substantially in the manner herein before
described.
Dated this 19th day of November 1889.
ROBERT HALL,
Applicant.