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What is a "knife curtain"?

What is a "knife curtain"?

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inlovewithjerryherman
#1What is a "knife curtain"?
Posted: 4/18/11 at 6:45pm

Is it a curtain that flies in and out?

Thanks for your help.

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Katurian2
#2What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/18/11 at 6:49pm

You mean a knife pleat? That's the only term that this sounds like. A knife pleat is a single pleat turned back in on itself. So a knife pleated curtain would appear to have a great number of inward turned and narrow layers.


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ghostlight2
#2What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/18/11 at 7:14pm

Can you give us context, OP? Off-hand, I've never heard the phrase. I know that a fire curtain always has a knife next to it so that in the event of an emergency, the line can be cut, and its weight will cause that asbestos curtain to fall on its own.

roadmixer
#3What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/18/11 at 7:15pm

Maybe you're thinking of a "guillotine curtain" which is indeed a curtain that flies up and comes in vertically as opposed to a "traveler" which closes on a track horizontally. A guillotine is sort of a knife after all.

ghostlight2
#4What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/18/11 at 7:52pm

Roadmixer is probably right. Is it possible that you mis-heard? A guillotine curtain (also known as a "bounce") comes straight down like its namessake, but I've never heard it referred to as a knife.

Jon
#5What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/19/11 at 3:23pm

I've heard of beef curtians...

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#6What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/19/11 at 4:29pm

What is a 'knife curtain'?

A knife curtain.

ghostlight2
#7What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/19/11 at 7:52pm

Yeah, I was thinkin' Sweeney Todd myself.

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#8What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/19/11 at 8:02pm

Jon weren't those Veal curtains?


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Jon
#9What is a 'knife curtain'?
Posted: 4/20/11 at 11:55am

Wouldn't veal curtains be jailbait?


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