U.S. patent number 3,928,897 [Application Number 05/497,075] was granted by the patent office on 1975-12-30 for device for fastening wall covering fabrics.
Invention is credited to Gerard J. Tombu.
United States Patent |
3,928,897 |
Tombu |
December 30, 1975 |
Device for fastening wall covering fabrics
Abstract
The invention pertains to a device for fixing and stretching
wall fabrics, characterized by the fact that it consists of
combining at least one section consisting of a sole-piece in the
form of a flat strip the two lengthwise edges of which are curved
towards each other in such a way as to form two hooking grooves,
with a further section having a cross-section in the shape of a
wide open V the two lengthwise edges of which are also curved
towards each other in such a way as to form two hooking elements
and, at the top of the V, a hollow rib of which the entry on the
concave side of the section is narrower than the width at the
bottom of the hollow, the two sections being made of a deformable
elastic matter.
Inventors: |
Tombu; Gerard J. (F-02
Saint-Quentin, FR) |
Family
ID: |
9142042 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/497,075 |
Filed: |
August 13, 1974 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
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Aug 2, 1974 [FR] |
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74.26918 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
24/462; 160/327;
160/392 |
Current CPC
Class: |
B44C
7/022 (20130101); Y10T 24/4406 (20150115) |
Current International
Class: |
B44C
7/00 (20060101); B44C 7/02 (20060101); A44B
021/00 (); A47H 023/00 () |
Field of
Search: |
;24/73CH,243K,243N,243M,248SL ;160/327,392,394 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Foreign Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Gelak; Bernard A.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Bacon & Thomas
Claims
What I claim is:
1. A device for fixing and stretching wall fabrics, comprising: a
sole piece in the form of a flat strip adapted to be secured to a
wall, the side edges of said flat strip being curved toward each
other forming at each side of said flat strip a hooking groove, one
of the hooking grooves having a larger curve radius than the other
of the hooking grooves; and a shaped section comprising a hollow
rib portion having a relatively narrow entry opening, a wing
portion extending outwardly from each side of the entry opening of
said hollow rib portion, the lengthwise edges of the wing portions
being curved toward each other forming at each side of the shaped
section a hooking element, the curve radius of one of the hook
elements corresponding to that of said one hooking groove and the
curve radius of the other hooking groove corresponding to that of
the other said hooking groove, the shaped section being dimensioned
to be inserted in the sole piece with the hooking elements of the
shaped section disposed within the corresponding hooking grooves of
the sole piece for securing fabric between said sole piece and said
shaped section, whereby held fabric extending from between said one
hooking groove and one hooking element and over the device is
spaced above said other hooking groove and hooking element.
2. Device according to claim 1 wherein said wing portions in the
unstressed condition are disposed relative to one another at an
angle of substantially 150.degree..
3. Device according to claim 1 wherein the inner surface of said
one hooking groove, on the one hand, and the outer surface of said
one hooking element, on the other hand, are both scored.
4. Device according to claim 1 wherein within the hollow rib and
towards the entry thereof, there are, on either side, lengthwise
slots bounding the rims of said entry.
5. Device according to claim 1 wherein a flexible rod is inserted
in the said hollow rib whereby a loop of fabric extending into the
interior of the hollow rib portion and around said rod, is
frictionally held between the rod and the adjacent interior walls
of the hollow rib portion.
6. Device according to claim 1 wherein, the overall width of the
shaped section when inserted in the sole piece is slightly less
than the internal width of the sole piece.
Description
This invention concerns the technique of hanging and stretching
wall fabrics. More particularly it concerns a technique consisting
of fixing shaped sections along two parallel edges of the wall to
be covered; of fixing other shaped sections on two parallel edges
of the fabric and of hooking the said sections that are on the
fabric to the said sections that are fixed on the wall.
The fabric is stretched by turning one or both of the sections
attached thereto.
In this technique, the sections are of particular importance, since
they have to hook on perfectly securely and enable quick,
effortless placing.
To that end, the device according to the invention utilizes
sections which, with extremely simple particularities, comply with
the said conditions.
These particularities are such that the sections attached to the
wall and those attached to the fabric are mutually interlocked
under permanent tension. The latter is determined by the fact that
the sections attached to the fabric are such that they can be
interlocked in the sections attached to the wall only following
transversal elastic strain.
Therefore the device according to the invention consists of
combining at least one section formed by a sole-piece in the shape
of a flat strip the two lengthwise edges of which are curved
towards each other so as to form two hooking grooves, with a
further section having a cross-section in the shape of a wide-open
V the two lengthwise edges of which are also curved towards each
other so as to form two hooking elements and, at the top of the V,
a hollow rib the entry to which, on the convex side of the section,
is narrower than the width at the bottom of the hollow, these two
sections being made of a deformable material.
Such characteristic sections are described in detail below,
reference being made to the appended drawings in which:
FIG. 1 represents, in cross-section, a shaped section of the type
intended for fixing to the fabric;
FIG. 2 represents, in cross-section, a shaped section of the type
intended for fixing to the wall;
FIG. 3 represents, in cross-section, the shaped section in FIG. 1
in its form after engagement in the shaped section shown in FIG.
2.
FIG. 4 represents, in cross-section, a view of the shaped section
with fabric attached thereto, being inserted into the sole piece;
and
FIG. 5 represents, in cross-section, a view of the assembled device
attached to a wall with held fabric extending over the device.
The shaped section in FIG. 1 consists of two wings 2-3 joined by a
hollow rib 4 of which the width L of the opening 5 is less than the
width L1 of the bottom of the hollow 6 of the said rib. The rims
7-8 of the said entry 5 have a lengthwise slot, respectively 9-10.
The two wings 2-3 are inclined, in relation to the horizontal
plane, at an angle alpha around 15.degree., the whole of the shaped
section therefore having a section in the form of a wide open V the
angle gap of which is around 150.degree..
The outside lengthwise edge 11 of wing 2 is curved inwards in such
a way as to show a cylindrical part 12 of a radius R of around 1.5
mm extended by a tangential or approximately tangential edge 13
inclined at an angle beta of around 50.degree. in relation to the
plane defined by the said wing 2. The outside of the said curved
part possesses small channels, scores or other similar
conformations. The outer lengthwise edge 14 of wing 3 is curved
inwards in such a way as to show a cylindrical part 15 of a radius
R1 of around 1 mm extended by a tangential or approximately
tangential edge 16, parallel to the plane defined by the said wing
3.
The shaped section 17 shown in FIG. 2 consists of a flat sole-piece
18 the two lengthwise edges 19-20 of which are curved inwards in
such a way as to form two hooking grooves. On its inside,
preferably scored, edge 19 has a shape and dimensions similar,
respectively, to the shape and dimensions of the outer wall of the
lengthwise edge 11 of section 1 bounded by the cylindrical part 12
and the tangential or approximately tangential part 13 in such a
way that the said adjacent edge 11 of the wing of section 1 can
adjust itself correctly in the curved edge of section 17. The other
adjacent lengthwise edge 20 has a cylindrical part 21 the inside
radius R2 of which is equal or approximately equal to the radius of
the outside of the cylindrical part 15 of the lengthwise edge 14 of
section 1. This cylindrical part 21 is extended by a tangential or
approximately tangential part 22.
The sections 1 are intended to be fixed on the edges of a wall
fabric F, whereas the sole piece sections 17 are intended to be
fixed on the wall or partition W to be covered. Prepared in this
way, a section 1 is intended to be engaged in a section 17. This
engagement is effected in such a way that section 1 is placed
permanently under a certain tension caused by dropping the wings
2-3 which, as shown in FIG. 3, are brought into one and the same
plane. To that end, the overall width L2 of a section 1 after being
placed in position is equal to or very slightly less than the width
L3 measured between the bottom of the curved lengthwise edges
19-20. Ipso facto, the overall width L4 of a section 1 before being
placed in position is slightly less than the said width L3. It is
also observed that when section 1 is interlocked in a section 17,
the width L of entry 5 of the hollow rib 4 becomes equal to L5,
which cooperates in better attachment of the fabric respectively of
the rod R inserted in the said hollow rib 4.
These sections will be advantageously executed by extrusion of a
plastic, generally a vinyl chloride. For sections with an average
width of 60 mm, a thickness of about 1 millimeter can be accepted.
The result is that the quantity of plastic utilized for the said
sections is relatively very small, which also plays its part in the
economic nature of the device which is the subject of the
invention.
In employing these sections one could, for instance, fix sole piece
sections 17 along the upper and lower edges of the wall W to be
covered; fix sections 1 on two parallel edges of the fabric F,
preferably using a flexible rod engaged with the adjacent part of
the fabric in the said hollow rib 6; engage the sections 1 attached
to the upper edge of the fabric in the sections 17 attached to the
upper edge of the wall; engage the sections 1 attached to the lower
edge of the fabric in the sections 17 fixed along the lower edge of
the wall W, and, finally, turn the upper and/or lower sections pro
rata to the tension to which the fabric is to be submitted.
Various modifications can of course be made by a skilled person to
the device which has just been described solely as a non-limitative
example, without going outside the scope of the invention.
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