U.S. patent application number 12/617626 was filed with the patent office on 2011-05-12 for safety support for curtain.
This patent application is currently assigned to MY HOME GLOBAL COMPANY. Invention is credited to Ju-Huai Chen.
Application Number | 20110108694 12/617626 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 43973440 |
Filed Date | 2011-05-12 |
United States Patent
Application |
20110108694 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Chen; Ju-Huai |
May 12, 2011 |
SAFETY SUPPORT FOR CURTAIN
Abstract
A safety support for a curtain comprises a supporting base
having a receiving unit set at one side of the supporting base, and
a supporting plate coupling to one side of the supporting base,
wherein the supporting plate comprises a connecting unit which is
coupled to the receiving unit of the supporting base, and an
aperture. The safety support is constructed in such that when the
external force exerted on the safety support of the curtain exceeds
a pre-determined safety weight setting, the connecting unit of the
supporting plate will disconnect immediately from the receiving
unit of the supporting base so that the curtain will be detached
from the supporting plate of the safety support so that the child
is protected from suspension from the curtain.
Inventors: |
Chen; Ju-Huai; (Changhua
County, TW) |
Assignee: |
MY HOME GLOBAL COMPANY
Changhua County
TW
|
Family ID: |
43973440 |
Appl. No.: |
12/617626 |
Filed: |
November 12, 2009 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
248/261 |
Current CPC
Class: |
E06B 9/50 20130101; E06B
2009/3265 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
248/261 |
International
Class: |
A47H 1/14 20060101
A47H001/14 |
Claims
1. A safety support for a curtain, comprising: a supporting base,
having a receiving unit provided at one side of the supporting
base; and a supporting plate, coupling to one side of the
supporting base, wherein the supporting plate comprises a
connecting unit which is coupled to the receiving unit of the
supporting base, and an aperture.
2. The safety support of claim 1, wherein the supporting base
further comprises a horizontal plate, a vertical plate which is
perpendicularly attached to one side of the horizontal plate, and
an L-shaped plate that is attached perpendicularly to another side
of the vertical plate, and the vertical plate comprises a fixed
hole.
3. The safety support of claim 1, wherein the connecting unit of
the support plate comprises a flexible plate and a protrusion.
4. The safety support of claim 1, wherein the aperture is designed
as the circular shaped hole.
5. The safety support of claim 1, wherein the aperture further
comprises an arc-shaped opening connecting to one section of the
aperture.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to a safety support for a
curtain, and more particularly to a safety structure for the
curtain that can protect the safety of the children at homes.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The conventional curtain, such as Roman curtain, comprises
an upper bar, a piece of curtain fabric body connecting to the
upper bar and a control rope set, which controls the rising and
descending of the curtain. The curtain fabric body can comprise a
plurality of curtain fabric portions constructed into a big piece
of curtain body, and those curtain fabric portions are connected
next to each other through the holes and the ropes positioned at
both side of the curtain fabric portions, so that the length of the
whole curtain body can be controlled by the control rope set that
is attached to at the bottom part of the ropes of the curtain
fabric body to rise or descend the curtain.
[0003] Since curtain is the most common furniture found in the
households, children are more likely to play with curtain than
other furniture due to their curiosity or playfulness nature.
Curtain is normally suspended or hanged at the window frame indoor,
so when a child plays with the ropes or the control rope set of the
curtain, there is a great chance that the child will be tangled or
suspended by the ropes, such as his neck, which can cause a
life-threatening harm to the child. Therefore, there is an urgent
need to provide a safety measure for the curtain in order to
protect the safety of the children at home.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0004] In view of the foregoing shortcomings of the conventional
curtain design, the prevent invention provides a safety support for
a curtain that can protect the safety of the child.
[0005] It is an object of the present invention to provide a safety
support that can be installed easily and protect the safety of the
children at homes.
[0006] It is another object of the present invention to provide a
safety support that can prevent the child from suspension by the
curtain' ropes or the control rope set.
[0007] It is another object of the present invention to provide a
safety support utilizing the upper bar of the curtain, which is
coupled to a support plate of the safety support, to be disengaged
from a supporting base of the safety support when the external
force exerted on the safety support of the curtain exceeds a
pre-determined safety weight setting. In other words, a connecting
unit of the supporting plate is disconnected immediately from a
receiving unit of the supporting base so the curtain will be
detached from the supporting plate of the safety support to prevent
the child from suspension.
[0008] It is another object of the present invention to provide a
safety support to protect the safety of the child by using its
arc-shaped opening design to dislocate the upper bar of the curtain
from the supporting plate of the safety support.
[0009] The safety support of the present invention comprises
supporting base having a receiving unit provided at one side of the
supporting base, and a supporting plate coupling to one side of the
supporting base, wherein the supporting plate comprises a
connecting unit which is coupled to the receiving unit of the
supporting base, and an aperture.
[0010] These features and advantages of the present invention will
become more fully apparent from the following description and
appended claims, or may be learned by the practice of the invention
as set forth thereinafter.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] In order for the advantages of the invention to be readily
understood, a more particular description of the invention briefly
described above will be rendered by reference to specific
embodiments that are illustrated in the appended drawings.
Understanding that theses drawings depict only typical embodiments
of the invention and are not therefore to be considered to be
limiting of its scope, the invention will be described and
explained with additional specificity and detail through the use of
the accompanying drawings, in which:
[0012] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an assembled safety support
used for curtain in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the
present invention;
[0013] FIG. 2 is a schematic assembly view of the safety support
used for curtain in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the
present invention;
[0014] FIG. 3 is a schematic view of showing how the safety support
is applied to a curtain in accordance with another preferred
embodiment of the present invention; and
[0015] FIG. 4 is a schematic view of showing another safety support
in accordance with another preferred embodiment of the present
invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0016] For the purpose of promoting an understanding of the
principles of the invention, reference will now be made to the
exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings, and specific
language will be used to describe the same. It will nevertheless be
understood that no limitation of the scope of the invention is
thereby intended. Any alterations and further modifications of the
inventive features illustrated herein, and any additional
applications of the principles of the invention as illustrated
herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and
having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within
the scope of the invention.
[0017] FIGS. 1 and 2 show schematic views of a safety support used
for curtain in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the
present invention. The safety support comprises a supporting base 1
and a supporting plate 2.
[0018] The supporting base 1 comprises a horizontal plate 11, a
vertical plate 12 which is perpendicularly attached to one side of
the horizontal plate 11, and an L-shaped plate 13, which is
attached perpendicularly to another side of the vertical plate 12.
The horizontal plate 11, the vertical plate 12 and the L-shaped
plate 13 of the supporting base 1 can be fabricated either in one
piece molding or separately. A receiving unit 131 is provided at
one side of the L-shaped plate 13 for coupling the supporting plate
2 to the supporting base 1, and fixed holes 121 are provided at the
vertical plate 12 for mounting the supporting base 1.
[0019] The supporting plate 2 is coupling to one side of the
L-shaped plate 13 of the supporting base 1 via the receiving unit
131. A connecting unit 21 is provided at an L-shaped section of the
supporting plate 2 for coupling to the receiving unit 131 of the
supporting base 1. The connecting unit 21 comprises a flexible
plate 211 and a protrusion 212. An aperture 22 is provided at the
supporting plate 2, wherein the aperture 22 can be designed as a
circular shaped hole.
[0020] Refer to FIG. 3, a schematic view showing how the safety
support is applied to a curtain in accordance with another
preferred embodiment of the present invention. Refer to FIGS. 1-3,
a curtain 3 is suspended via an upper bar 31, and two ends of the
upper bar 31 are supported and coupling to the two supporting
plates 2 via the apertures 22 of the supporting plates 2. The
supporting plates 2 are coupling to the supporting bases 1. The
curtain 3 is then supported and suspended at the window frame by
attaching the supporting base 1 to the window frame or the walls
via the fixed holes 121 and the screws.
[0021] The safety support of the present invention is designed to
protect the safety of the children at homes. The safety support is
specifically constructed to support a specific weight, which is
also called the safety weight, when the actual weight exceeds the
pre-determined safety weight, the connecting unit 21 will be
detached easily and immediately from the receiving unit 131.
[0022] FIG. 3 shows that the curtain 3 comprises a control rope set
32, which controls the rising and descending of the curtain 3, and
ropes 33 positioned at both side of the curtain body, which can
control the length of the curtain body. When a child is accidently
hanged or suspended by the control rope set 32 or the rope 33, such
as the child's neck is tangled with the ropes, the weight of the
child will cause an enormous force to pull on the control rope set
32 and the ropes 33 as a result, the connecting unit 21 of the
supporting plate 2 will detach and come loose immediately from the
receiving unit 131 of the supporting base 1 to prevent the
suspension of the child from the curtain's ropes. In other words,
when the external force/weight sustained on the safety support of
the present invention exceeds the pre-determined safety weight
setting, the connecting unit 21 of the supporting plate 2 will
disconnect immediately from the receiving unit 131 of the
supporting base 1 to prevent life-threatening accident from happen
to the child. Once the child is safe from the ropes, the curtain 3
can be suspended again by re-inserting the flexible plate 211 of
the connecting unit 21 into the hole of the receiving unit 131 of
the supporting base 1 so that the protrusion 212 of the connecting
unit 21 is clicked at one side of the receiving unit 131.
Therefore, the safety support of the present invention can allow
the curtain 3 to be set up or installed up easily, and its safety
design can provide a safe environment for the child.
[0023] FIG. 4 shows another safety support in accordance with
another preferred embodiment of the present invention, wherein an
aperture 22a is provided at a supporting plate 2a as shown in FIG.
4. The aperture 22a further comprises an arc-shaped opening 221a,
and one portion of the aperture 22a is connecting to the arc-shaped
opening 221a. When the external force exerted on the safety support
of the curtain exceeds the pre-determined safety weight setting,
the control rope set 32 or the rope(s) 33 of the curtain 3 is
pulled by the external force will result the upper bar 31 to be
pulled out from the arc-shaped opening 221a of the aperture 22a
immediately to cause the upper bar 31 of the curtain 3 to be
detached from the supporting plate 2a of the safety support in such
that the curtain 3 will be released from its suspension
position.
[0024] The safety support of the present invention is designed to
protect the safety of the children indoor and to prevent the child
from suspension on the curtain or ropes. The safety support is
constructed in such that when the external force exerted on the
safety support of the curtain exceeds the pre-determined safety
weight setting, the connecting unit 21 of the supporting plate 2
will disconnect immediately from the receiving unit 131 of the
supporting base 1 or the upper bar 31 of the curtain 3 to be pulled
out from the arc-shaped opening 221a of the aperture 22a
immediately to cause the curtain 3 detaching from the supporting
plate 2a of the safety support so that the child is protected from
suspension by the curtain 3 or the ropes 32, 33.
[0025] Thus, while the present invention has been fully described
above with particularity and detail in connection with what is
presently deemed to be the most practical and preferred embodiment
of the invention, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in
the art that numerous modifications, including, but not limited to,
variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of
operation, assembly and use may be made, without departing from the
principles and concepts of the invention as set forth in the
claims.
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