US932778A - Curtain-hook. - Google Patents

Description

M. L. GOULD.

CURTAIN HOOK.

APPLICATION PILBI) OUT. 8, 1908.

Patented Aug. 31, 1909.,

m w m w MARY L. GOULD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CURTAIN-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 8, 1908. Serial No. 456,841.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY L. GOULD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Hooks, of

The invention consists in a double reverse hook one end of which is sharpened and pointed for forcible insertion into a door or window frame, the other end being adapted to engage around a curtain.

In the drawings, Figure 1, is a face view of a portion of a window or door with my hook in place. Fig. 2, is a section of a door casing showing the hook in place. Fig. 3, is a detail perspective of the hook.

The hook, as seen most clearly in Fig. 2, comprises a straight body portion 1 adapted to lie flat against the window or door casing and having 011 one end thereof thehook 2,

parallel with the body and adapted to surround or partially surround acurtain or other like hanging inthe manner shown in Fig. 1. The other end of the shank 1 is bent into the form of a hook 3, which is the reverse of the hook 2 and parallel with the same and the body 1. The hook 3 is provided with the flattened prongs 4-, these prongs being sharpened so that this portion of the hook may be forced into the wood work of a window or door casing or between the wood of a casing and the wall of the room.

The hook is preferably made of sheet metal and formed substantially as shown in Fig. 2, but it is obvious, of course, that the body of the hook might be ornamented in any manner desired or formed so as to give strength to the sheet metal.

The operation of the device is obvious. The hook may be inserted into the edge of a window or door casing preferably between the casing and the wall behind it, but if necessary into the wood itself. It may be placed higher or lower upon the casing as desired and adjusted quickly to suit any exigencies. The curtain is placed within the hook in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

It will be seenithat my invention does away with cords to hold back the window curtain and particularly that it allows the curtain to be caught up at any desired height which is not the case with the means used to-day for drawing back window curtains. The curtain may be drawn back at its upper portion so as to get practically the entire light of the window or at the lower portion only so as to keep out the light if desired.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A curtain holder comprising a straight body portionhaving its ends bent into reverse hook portions, said body portion and saidhook portions being parallel and the end of one of said hooks being pronged and sharpened, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

I MARY L. GOULD.

Witnesses:

E. A. GOULD, W. 0. SMITH.

Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

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