Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – Convertible
Patent
1993-12-06
1996-06-11
Johnson, Blair M.
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
Convertible
160 8401, E06B 900
Patent
active
055246907
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
This invention relates to a support device for a curtain, in particular for a room with at least a floor and a wall in relation to which the curtain is hung.
There are two types of curtains already known to the art and commercially available, which we will refer to as "traditional" curtains and "box" curtains: the first are curtains that move between appropriate guides of their various support devices in a direction essentially parallel to the floor, and the second are curtains that move in a plane perpendicular to the floor.
Use of such prior art curtains often depends on the taste of the decorator or user of the room in which they are hung. Sometimes, however, the choice depends on specific functional requirements.
In this regard, consider walls with windows that run the entire height of the walls. With windows of this kind, box curtains cannot be used, because their usual support device, with associated raising mechanisms that guide the movement of curtains of this kind, cannot be mounted near to the windows without impeding or at least hampering their opening.
Therefore, even if the user wishes to use box curtains, deeming them more consonant with the decorating style of the room or perhaps merely more in harmony with his sense of aesthetics, he is obliged to select and use traditional curtains, for which the support device can be produced with dimensions that do not interfere with the opening of the curtain.
SUMMARY
These and other objects that will be obvious to one skilled in the art are accomplished by a curtain support device, in particular for a room with a floor and at least one wall in relation to which the curtain is hung, characterized in that it comprises at least one guide element along which can slide at least one curtain raising mechanism designed to guide the movement of a corresponding cord, tape or the like connected to one end of the said curtain opposite the end near the said guide element, said movement of the cord resulting in the raising of the curtain or a portion thereof with respect to the floor, there being control means to allow for the movement of the cord through the corresponding raising mechanism and the sliding of the latter along the guide element, said sliding resulting in the displacement of the curtain or at least a portion thereof on a plane essentially parallel to the above-mentioned floor.
The object of this invention, therefore, is to describe a curtain support device that allows a curtain to move in the manner typical of conventional "box" curtains and in the manner typical of "traditional" curtains, either separately or in combination.
Another object is to describe a device of the aforesaid kind that is simple, easy to make and mount and modest in cost.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
For a better understanding of the invention, the following drawings are given strictly by way of example and not of limitation, in which:
FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view of the device pursuant to the invention mounted in the proximity of a window;
FIG. 2 is a schematic, split perspective view of the device in FIG. 1, showing the characteristic elements thereof;
FIG. 3 shows another, different embodiment of the invention in perspective view similar to that of FIG. 2.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, the device 1 pursuant to the invention supports a curtain 2 hung by a window 3 located in a wall 4 of a room A, said room having a floor P and a ceiling S.
The device 1, attached in a conventional manner to the wall P or the ceiling S of the room A comprises (in the example shown in FIGS. 1 and 2) a channel or channel-like element 5 defined by a section 6 in which at least one guide track 7 has been created; in the latter are movably positioned a plurality of rings or sliding elements 8 and bearings 9 for raising mechanisms 10 for the movement of corresponding ropes or cords 11 connected to one end 12 0f the curtain 2. Said mechanisms, by moving the cords raise the curtain 2 from the floor P, said raising motion occurr
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Bortoloso Mario
Carollo Raimondo
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