Standard dimension curtain hanger apparatus and process for variable height ceiling
AssigneeUnicube USA, Inc.
InventorsMarvin R. Hubbard, Wallace I. Resh
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Abstract
A suspended curtain system adaptable to non-uniform height ceilings having modular curtain panels suspended from a plurality of hangers, each hanger selected from an assortment of prefabricated lengths and is attached to roller mounted carriers supported in a track mounted to the ceiling to allow easy positioning of the suspended curtains by applying a horizontal force to the panels, the carriers are connected together by carrier links to reduce jamming of the carriers as they are moved around the track, the length of each hanger selected being sized to suspend the panels from the ceiling at a constant distance above the floor regardless of ceiling height.
Claims6
A curtain system for defining visual living space barriers over an open floor from a ceiling mounted track, said system including:
- an overlying ceiling mounted track having a support surface;
- at least two curtain carriers, said carriers comprising a body portion and roller means rotatably mounted to said body for mobile positioning of said carrier within said track, said support surface supporting the curtain carriers at the roller means;
- at least one modular curtain panel, said modular curtain panel having constant vertical height and a plurality of uniformly spaced suspension points along the upper edge of said panel;
- a plurality of solid curtain drops comprising a rod having an upper end and a lower end, said rod having means for threaded attachment at said upper end and having means for threaded attachment at the lower end,
- a plurality of carrier links, said carrier links comprising tensile members for providing linkage under tension between points for threading to adjacent pairs of said carriers when positioned in said track and permitting said carriers to move towards and away from one another relative to one another, said linkage under tension having a maximum horizontal dimension equal to the maximum horizontal dimension between adjacent pairs of support points along the upper edge of the panels whereby said curtain carriers are linked in uniform spaced apart relation when pulled with a horizontal force, said spaced apart relation corresponding to the uniform spaced apart relation of said suspension points on said curtain panels to enable curtain movement of said suspended modular curtain panels over said floor and under said track;
- an upper carrier hook elongate about a vertical axis, said hook comprising an elastical and deformable member defining an upper hook portion at the upper portion of said elongate hook and a lower hook portion at the lower end of said elongate hook;
- said hook defining along one of said elongate sides first and second hook points to permit the threading of said hook portions with members to be bound to said hooks;
- said hook points initially offset one with respect to the other to permit said hook to be threaded;
- said upper hook portion of said elongate hook threaded to said carrier through said upper hook point;
- said lower hook portion of said elongate hook threaded to said drop at said upper end and to at least one end of one of said carrier links at said lower end;
- and,
- said hook at one of said elongate portions deformed to confront one another to capture said threaded carrier, drop and carrier links to said hook and exclude other members from being entangled to said hook.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.