What is a "knife curtain"?

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 4/18/11 at 6:45pm

Is it a curtain that flies in and out?

Thanks for your help.

[Katurian2]

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.

[ghostlight2]

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]

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]

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]

Posted: 4/19/11 at 3:23pm

I've heard of beef curtians...

Posted: 4/19/11 at 4:29pm

A knife curtain.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 4/19/11 at 7:52pm

Yeah, I was thinkin' Sweeney Todd myself.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/19/11 at 8:02pm

Jon weren't those Veal curtains?

[Jon]

Posted: 4/20/11 at 11:55am

Wouldn't veal curtains be jailbait?