Abstract:
A fabric fastening kit for fastening a piece of fabric to a rigid structure. The fabric fastening kit is comprised of a strip of netting material having a nominal width and a plurality of opened meshes, and a longitudinal pronged element having a nominal thickness, a surface, a backside, a foreside, and a plurality of juxtaposed prongs defined within that planar surface. Each prong has a narrow tip, a wide base and a length between the tip and the base being at least equivalent to the width of the base of one prong. The pronged element is attachable to a rigid structure. The strip of netting material is attachable to the pronged element and is also attachable to the margin of the piece of fabric to be fastened to the rigid structure. Each of the meshes of the netting material has a perimeter which is at least twice as long as the total of the width of the base of one prong plus the nominal thickness of the prong, whereby when the pronged element is mounted on the rigid structure, the netting material is repeatedly tangentially attachable to and removable from the pronged element without mangling the netting material. In another aspect of the present invention, the pronged element has a spacer means mounted on the backside thereof for spacing the prongs from the surface of the structure when the pronged element is attached to that structure.
Abstract:
A curtain support member 10 for supporting a curtain 12 in a curved window archway 14 is provided. The curtain support member 10 includes a planar shaped base member 16. The planar shaped base member 16 is provided with a substantially flat lower portion 20 having an elongated channel 22 formed therein. The support member 10 is also provided with a first side member 24 which is coupled to an outermost portion of the base member 16 to project therefrom in a vertical direction a first predetermined distance. A second side member 38 is coupled to another outermost portion of the base member 16 to project therefrom in a diagonal direction a second predetermined distance. The curtain support member 10 is also provided with an upper member 46 which is coupled to the first side member 24 to extend diagonally downwardly into coupling engagement with the second side member 38. Additionally a curtain mounting apparatus 70 is provided for coupling the support member 10 in a curved window archway 14 to selected predetermined portions of the archway so that the support member is coupled therein to conform to the curved configuration of the archway.
Abstract:
A sectioned window cornice may be adapted to various widths of windows and drapery support rods thereon. The cornice may be easily assembled from several identical, repeating panels with symmetrical attachment ends to provide for universal assembly of the panels to form a cornice of the desired length. The cornice may include a decorative bas relief or other pattern thereon, which pattern preferably repeats with each panel and is adapted to match exactly with the pattern of an adjoining panel, to avoid any unsightly perceived mismatch of shapes and patterns on the assembled cornice. The assembled modular sections are secured to the front surface of a drapery support rod or the like by hook and loop fastening material, thereby providing for assembly and installation without need of any tools and enabling the cornice to be assembled and installed by unskilled labor in a minimum amount of time and effort, and enabling an installed cornice to be removed and replaced easily, as desired. The assembled cornice may also be easily and quickly removed and disassembled, as desired. Plastics, wood, and/or fiberboard or the like may be used to form the present cornice sections.
Abstract:
A curtain frame (10) adapted to be mounted in windows of various sizes has a peripheral frame (11), a telescopic upper curtain rod (12), a telescopic lower curtain rod (13) and a pair of hinges (15). The peripheral frame has four L-shaped corner members (17), a pair of upright members (20) telescopically mounted to the corner members and a pair of cross members (21) telescopically mounted to the corner members. A curtain (14) is mounted at one to the upper curtain rod and releasably mounted at its opposite end to the lower curtain rod. The vertical members and the cross members are slidably adjusted within the corner members to fit a window of a selected size with the curtain rods being self adjusted in length without altering its spacing from the upper cross member. The hinges allow the peripheral frame to be moved between a closed position covering the window and an open position opened uncovering the window.
Abstract:
Curtain draping hardware and a method for draping a curtain using a curtain rod and a curtain holder. The curtain covers the curtain rod and can be made to form one or two vertical tails and/or one or more arcs or swags by placement of the curtain in one or more curtain holders. A decorative accent piece can also be attached to the front of the curtain rod above the curtain holder.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a guide rod for a fabric for window decoration or shading system, wherein the fabric can be gathered essentially perpendicularly to the guide rod. The rod comprises a pair of sliding pins (2), telescopingly mounted at each end of the rod so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction of the rod, each of these sliding pins (2) having a head (3), which is held by the free edges of a C-shaped cross-section of a respective one of a pair of stationary rails (1), which may be fastened to opposite sides of the frame of the window. Each sliding pin (2) has a disc (8) seated thereon adjacent the rail. The disc is pressed toward the head (3) of the respective pin by a compression spring (9) which is braced against the adjacent end of the central rod portion and acts to clamp the pin to the rail so as to frictionally maintain the pin and thus the entire rod in a desired position along the rail. The sliding pin (2) has an abutment portion ( 6), which prevents the telescoping pin from being withdrawn from the end of the rod beyond the point at which the abutment engages a cooperating shoulder at the interior of the central rod portion.
Abstract:
A self-supporting curtain and valance assembly for direct mounting onto a single curtain rod or shower-bath support, installed in juxtaposition with a window, door, shower-bath area or the like, is disclosed. The assembly (10) includes a curtain subassembly (20), functional in various configurations. The curtain (20) has a number of first coupling subunits (30) secured to the inside surface (26) of the flap of the curtain. The flap has a number of second coupling subunits (32) secured to its inside surface. The flap can be engaged and looped around a curtain rod or support and attached to itself by the first and second coupling subunits for self-supporting the curtain subassembly on the rod without the need for separate, independently added hooks or the like. The curtain has a plurality of third coupling subunits (36) fixed to the outside surface (28) of the flap. The assembly further includes a valance subassembly (40) having a number of fourth coupling subunits (50) attached to its inside surface (46), allowing the valance to be optionally attached to the curtain by coupling the fourth subunits of the valance with the third subunits of the curtain for self-support of curtain and valance on a single curtain support. The curtain has a porous trim section (56) through which the third and fourth subunits couple; and a shear subassembly (60) mounted over the curtain rod and pressed and molded between the first and second curtain subunits to support the shear within the curtain.
Abstract:
A bendable sheet of material includes a column of apertures and at least one loop interleaved therewith disposed along each opposed vertical side and support structure for suspending the sheet from its upper edge. A pair of clips, secured to the lower edge of the sheet, penetrably cooperate with the columns of apertures to selectively retain the sheet foldable upon itself to a predetermined degree. The pair of clips are adapted to penetrably engage the loops to retain a further fold of the folded part of the sheet to selectively further reduce the area defined by the suspended sheet.
Abstract:
A covering apparatus is set forth to overlie an existing covered opening such as found in window and door environments. The apparatus includes a continuous elongate strip secured to a window or door frame opening with a companion strip receivable therein integrally secured and formed as a perimeter of a flexible transparent covering membrane for the window or door opening.
Abstract:
A thermally protective drapery construction comprises retaining rod means and inner and outer panels of drapery material arranged in suspended, separated relationship on the retaining rod means. The separated drapery panels are supported in a manner such that a thermally resistant critical air spacing is provided and extends between the panels and at a substantially uniform value. In the case of folds of respective inner and outer panels which are moved toward and away from one another along the retaining rod means, uniformity of the spacing is maintained during such movement.The critical air spacing consists of a thermally resistant air space provided by locating the panels apart from one another a distance lying in a range of from 0.25 inches up to approximately 0.5 inches. Such a spacing between upper portions of the inner and outer panels of drapery material is achieved by securing together the panels with snap fastening carriers on the retaining rod and snap fastening tapes secured to the panels and attached to the carriers in spaced apart relation. Intermediate and lower portions of the inner panel also have fastened thereto fibrous separator means. The separator means may be of a thickness co-responding to the above-noted critical air spacing and extend into contact with the outer panel. The retainer rod means includes a heat cap attched by bracket means to a wall surface and located in closely spaced relation to upper edges of the drapery folds to constitute an air baffle which is maintained in effect when the drapery folds are opened and closed. The inner panel has a vertical edge seal which is also maintained when the inner and outer drapery folds are opened and closed and which permits access to a cord and pulley located between the panels without breaking the edge seal.