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Web-mounted pleating brackets

a technology of pleating brackets and brackets, which is applied in the field of fixings, can solve the problems of less favorable to nailing or stapling fabric than, for example, wood, and is difficult to handle and ship, and achieves the effects of convenient installation, convenient nailed or stapled, and easy handling for installers

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-05-10
FAY WALTERJ
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[0006] This construction provides many advantages. For example, the backing web assembled to the extension blocks may be rolled into a coil for compact shipping or storage. When a flexible material such as heavy jute is used for the webbing, the web can be easily nailed or stapled through to first secure the bracket assembly to a backboard or to subsequently attach the fabric along the surface of the web and hanger blocks. In addition, the web may be easily cut to length and the fact that the assembly is flexible makes it much easier for installers to handle than the rigid, elongate metal strips of the prior art.

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Therefore, even though the bracket strips are separable from the hanger extensions, they are difficult to handle and ship since the strips are provided in rigid elongate pieces approximately eight feet in length.
In addition, although metal provides great economies of manufacture, it is less conducive to nailing or stapling the fabric than, for example, wood.

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[0011] Referring now to FIG. 1, the present invention 11 comprises a flexible web preferably composed of a jute fabric to which regularly spaced wooden pleat-forming extension blocks 15 are mounted. The web 13 may be secured to fascia board 17 by way of fastener 16 such as staples. This figure also depicts a curtain 20 which is similarly affixed by staples to the extensions 15 and the front surface of the web 13 which forms pleats 21 in the curtain 20.

[0012]FIG. 2 shows the curtain-hanging structure 11 in isolation. A series of evenly spaced wooden extension blocks 15 are secured to the web by any convenient means such as nails or staples 18. FIG. 3 depicts how the flexibility of the structures of the invention permits it to be coiled into a compact volume for ease of handling, storage, or shipping. Web 13 may be easily rolled into a coil around pleat blocks 15.

[0013] It should be understood that there may be other modifications and changes to the present invention that will be ob...

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Abstract

A hanger for pleated curtains comprises a flexible elongate web adapted for receiving fasteners to secure the web to a support, and a plurality of curtain extension blocks affixed to the web and extending orthogonally from a front surface thereof for receiving curtain supporting fasteners. The blocks are composed of wood and are substantially identical being secured to the web regularly spaced apart. The web is preferably composed of jute fabric and is attached with fasteners to a substantially horizontal wooden fascia backboard which is wall-mounted.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates in general to fixtures for holding hanging fabric to walls. More specifically, it relates to brackets for hanging the fabric from a top portion thereof to form pleats. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] It is common practice to cover the walls of interior spaces such as theaters and auditoriums with fabric for various functional and decorative reasons. Functionally, fabric sidewalls provide superior acoustic properties. To install sidewall curtains, it is well known to utilize a thin strip of metal having pleat-forming U-shaped extensions for engaging and securing the fabric. The extensions form hangers which project outwardly from the surface of the wall to form vertical pleats in hanging fabric when the top edge of the fabric is attached along the surface of the strip. Various examples of this type of prior art device are shown for example in U.S. Pat. No. 2,557,578 issued to Stallone; U.S. Pat. No. 3,785,426 issued to Sp...

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IPC IPC(8): E04F19/00
CPCA47H13/14Y10T16/353A47H13/16
Inventor FAY, WALTERJ
Owner FAY WALTERJ