US651611A - Adjustable curtain-pole or shade bracket. - Google Patents

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J. w. REID. v ADJUSTABLE CURTAIN POLE 0B SHADE BRACKET.

(Application filed Mar. 8, 1900.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH W. REID, OF PA'IERSON, NEW JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE CURTAIN-POLE OR SHADE BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,611, dated June 12, 1900.

' Application filed March 8,1900. Serial No. 7,783. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. REID, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, county of Passaic, and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Curtain-Pole or Shade Brackets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to window-fixtures, and it has reference particularly to supporting-brackets for roller shades or curtains.

The object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive, efficient, and simply-constructed bracket of this nature the parts of which are adjustable, so as not only to accommodate curtain or shade rollers of various lengths and window-frames of various widths, but so as to be capable of sustaining each end of the roller at different elevations.

The invention consists in the improved roller-shade or curtain bracket and in the combination and arrangement of its various parts, substantially as will be hereinafter pointed out and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a shade or curtain supported upon the frame of a window by means of my improved brackets. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view, in front elevation, of one of said brackets. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of said bracket, a portion thereof being broken away. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of said bracket, presenting a slight modification of the invention. Fig. 5 is aview of that member of the bracket which is directly secured to the windowframe, presenting in dotted lines the modification shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a sectional view on the line as w in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a view in side elevation of said member of the bracket which is directly secured to the window-frame, presenting another slight modification of the invention; and Fig. 8 is a sectional View on the line y y in Fig. 7.

In said drawings, a designates a window frame upon which is supported by means'of my improved brackets a shade or curtain b.

c designates the roller for the curtain, the same having trunnions d, which rest in the brackets.

Each bracket consists of two 1nembers,the one of which, e, is adapted to be secured to the face of the window-frame and the other of which, f, directly receives the rollertrunnion, The member 6 consists of a metallic plate having in its body portion an elongated horizontal slot g and provided with upwardly and downwardly extending projections h and t', respectively, the former having a hole j penetrating it and the latter being provided with a longitudinal slot 70, this slot being disposed at right angles with reference to the slot g. The member f consists of a metallic plate having an integral outwardly-extending arm 1 projecting from its upper end. It is this arm which directly supports the trunnion of the roller, and for this purpose it may be either provided with the orifice m or the slot'n (indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3) for receiving, respectively, a round or flattened trunnion, according as the bracket is to be applied at the one or the other end of the roller. In the body portion of the member e is formed in its back surface an elongated recess 0, with which the slot g communicates. In said recess fits the preferably squared head 19 of a bolt q,whose shank penetrates the slot 9 and the member f and is threaded at its free end, being adapted to receive a wing-nut *1", which may be screwed thereon, so as to bind the two members tightly between the head of the bolt and said wingnut. In order to prevent the member f from turning on the bolt when the same is slightly loosened, the body portion of said member is provided on its rear face with a horizontal rib s, which takes against the up per edge of the body portion of the member e, or said member may be provided with two ribs .9 on itsrear face, the one taking against the upper edge and the other against the lower edge of said body portion of the other member, as shown in Fig. at.

t is a screw which penetrates the slot is of the projection 11 of the member 6. By ma-= nipulating this screw, which is adapted to be driven into the woodwork of the windowframe, as shown in Fig. 1, the member e may be secured, as will be obvious, at'various elevations on said frame. After the bracket has been adjusted vertically to the proper position a screw it is inserted through the hole j and likewise driven into the window-frame; to assist the screw 15 in firmly securing said bracket in position. Since the use of the screw it will involve its being inserted as 0t-x ten as it becomes necessary to adjust the brackets vertically after once being put up, I have provided in the modified forms of my; brackets means for obviating this. According to the modifications shown in.

Figs. 4c, 5, and 6, in theback surface of the membersv and extending upwardly from its slot g is formed a dovetailed groove 1). This groox e is adapted to receive the head'of a nail or screw w, which is driven into the: woodwork of the window-frame before the member is secured in placeby the screw 15.

By the use of this construction the member e of the bracket may be adjusted verticallywithout first doing more than loosening the screw 15. I

According to the modifications shown in Figs. 7 and 8 the rear face of the membere is provided with a lug or projection z, the same being adapted to project'into a groove or recess a, formed in the surface of the win-Y down-frame under said member. j y B y the use of myimproved curtain or shade bracket only the simplestmanipulation is necessary in order to fit the shades or ourtains to. the window-frame when they'are initially placedin position, andafterward, should one end of the roller tend to sag, as is sometimes the case when the shade is fro quently operated, this may be remedied by elevating the member f of the bracket.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 'is-- 1.111 a window-shade bracket, the combination of two members, the one having slots extendingin relatively-transverse directions, and means for adjustably connecting the two members, saidmeans penetrating one of the two slots, and movable in the same longitudinally thereof and the means for sustaining the bracket in position being adapted to pene trate the other slot, substantially as described.

2; The combination, with a window=frame, of. a window-shade bracket consisting of two members, the one having slots extending in relatively-transverse directions, and means for adjustably connecting the two members, said means penetratingthe one ofsaid slots and movable in the same longitudinally thereof, means,'penetrating the other 'slot, for securing said bracket to the frameyand a coacting groove and projection engagement be tween said firstnamed member of the bracket and the frame, su'bstantiallyas described.

' 3. The combination, with a window-frame,

of a window-shade bracket consisting of two adj us'tably-connectedmembers of which one is the supporting membeiysaid supporting memben having a dovetailed groove, means for adj ustab'l y securing said supporting member to'the frame, and a headeddevice secured in the'frame, thehead of said device engaging said last-named member in the groove thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this'3d day of JOSEPH. w. REID.

Witnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, WM. D. BELL.

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