US1002838A - Curtain and shade support. - Google Patents

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P. J. GREEN.

GURTAIN AND SHADE SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1911.

Patented Sept. 12, 1911.

' Inventor Attorney's UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PERRY J'. GREEN, 0]? ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

CURTAIN AND SHADE SUPPORT.

T 0 all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERRY J. GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Asheville, in the county of Buncombe and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Curtain and Shade Support, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of the present invention to provide an improved support for window curtains and shades and the invention aims primarily to provide a device of this class constructed to fit windows varying in width and to support curtains and window shades of various widths.

Incidentally the invention aims to provide an adjustable device of this class so constructed as to be attractive in appearance and adjustable without the employment of tools of any kind.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device mounted upon a window frame. Fig. 2 is a vertical. sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a detail transverse sectional view illustrating a slight modification of the invention. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view illustrating a further modification.

In the drawings, the device is illustrated as consisting, primarily, of two supporting brackets of counterpart structure. These brackets are preferably formed from wire and include each a threaded shank 5. Directly in advance of the shank 5, each bracket is formed with a bend 6 for a purpose to be presently explained, and beyond this bend and in a plane thereabove is a bend 7.

It will be noted that when the hooks are in place, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, that the shank 5 will engage the window casing and below and under the header 1 of the casing, the bend 6 being adapted to seat below the header, while the long terminal 6 forming the support for the bend 7, projects slightly outside of and parallel to the outer face of the header 1, of the casing, thus providing a shade supporting means below the header and close to the window sash, and a curtain pole support, the bend 7, being beyond the casing above the window. This is of the utmost importance, in that the shade receptacle or bend 6 is within and,

below and substantially at right angles to the pole receptacle or bend 7.

The curtain pole of the device is formed in two sections indicated one by the numeral Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 23, 1911.

Patented Sept. 12, 1911.

Serial No. 604,170.

8 and the other by the numeral 9. The section 9 telescopes in the section 8 and as a consequence, the pole, as a whole, may be lengthened or shortened as desired. The pole is supported in the portions 7 of the two brackets above described.

The shade roller supporting means of the device includes a pole formed of two sections one indicated by the numeral 10 and the other by the numeral 11, the section 11 being fitted slidably into the section 10 whereby the pole may be lengthened or shortened as desired. A set screw 12 is preferably threaded through the section 10 and bears against the section 11 whereby to hold the two sections at the proper adjustment. It will be understood however that this set screw may be omitted and the sections made to fit frictionally and be thus held at adjustment. While the sections 10 and 11 are illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 1 of the drawings as being cylindrical, they may be rectangular in cross section as illustrated in Fig. 3. In any event, they are supported at their ends in the portions 6 of the brackets above described. Upon each of the sections 10 and 11 there is supported a shade roller supporting bracket comprising a sleeve 18 having a depending ear- 1 1 arranged for the engagement therewith of the usual stud at one end or the other of an ordinary shade roller. In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the sleeves are illustrated as held at adjustment upon the sections 10 and 11 by means of set screws 15. However, where it is desired that the device shall be highly attractive in appearance, the set screws are omitted and the sleeves are split along their upper sides as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. They are, when so formed, made from resilient material and frictionally grip the respective sections 10 and 11 so as to remain at any adjustment therealong. The shade and its roller are indicated in the drawings by the numerals 16 and the studs at the end of the roll are engaged with the depending portion 14 of the last described bracket.

What is claimed is In a device of the class described, two brackets adapted to be attached to the window frame and be spaced apart, each of said brackets being made from a single piece of wire and having a window frame piercing shank and bent to form a rectangular receptacle to receive a shade support, a long terminal extending upwardly therefrom and parallel to the Window casing but beyond it and the rectangular receptacle, and termi-.

roller supporting brackets having sleeves surrounding the respective extensions of the second extensible pole and provided with means for suspending a shade roller.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PERRY J. GREEN. Witnesses B. A. PA'r'roN, T. M. DUCKETT.

Copies ,of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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