Patent ID: 8910697

Claim:
A drapery system which comprises: a) a drapery having a band of stiffened fabric material along a top end thereof and a plurality of grommets that are equally spaced apart and extend through the drapery band, thereby allowing said band to be folded into undulating longitudinal ripples; b) a drapery track mounted to a support structure; c) a plurality of drapery track carriers that slide within the drapery track, each carrier comprising a vertically extending stem portion circular in cross section having spaced flanges completely surrounding said stem portion that ride within the drapery track and a socket transversely affixed to a lower end of the stem portion, said flanges having curved facing surfaces and opposing flat surfaces, a section of said stem portion between said flanges having a diameter greater than a diameter of a section below said flanges, said socket comprising an annular wall forming and fully enclosing a horizontally extending circular opening, wherein said circular opening is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of said support structure as the carrier slides within the drapery track; and d) a plurality of decorative fasteners to quickly mount the drapery to the drapery carriers and quickly dismount said drapery from said drapery carrier, each decorative fastener comprising a decorative front portion, a rear horizontally extending fastener portion extending from a back surface of the decorative front portion passing through a grommet without hooking thereon, and a fastener receptacle mounted within the circular opening of said socket of said drapery track carrier extending out through a rear of said circular opening, whereby the fastener receptacle slidably engages with and releasably retains the fastener portion therein, whereby said fastener portion is removable without lifting of said decorative fastener and drapery, said horizontally extending fastener portion having a sloped outer surface adjacent a rear wall of said decorative front portion engaging an inner surface of an outer wall of said grommet and not contacting said drapery.