US1011495A - Curtain-guide. - Google Patents

Description

P. J. RUPERT.

CURTAIN GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1911.

1,01 1,495. Patented Dec. -12,1911.

Witnesges Inventor by a r Attorneys FREDERICK J. RUPERT, 0F SALE-M, OREGON.

CURTAIN-GUIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1911.

Application filed May 24, 1911. Serial No. 629,111.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIOK J. RUPERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salem, in the county of Marion and'State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Curtain-Guide, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in window shade guides.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a guide for the shade, which may be conveniently carried by the shade bracket and so supported by said bracket as to prop erly direct the edge portions of the shade thus facilitating its winding on the roller, the proper directing of the shade during its winding preventing its edge portions from becoming crumpled or worn.

A further object of the invention is to construct and support the guide that the same will hold the shade and properly direct the same regardless of the angle at which said shade is held.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the device supported by the usual shade bracket and in contact with the ordinary type of shade. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the brackets removed from the window casing. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the shade guide removed from the bracket. Fig. 4 is a detail view of a slightly modified form of guide.

In the drawings 10 designates a bracket which as before stated is of the usual type, the only alteration necessary to said bracket in carrying out the present invention being the forming of the aperture 11 which receives and pivotally supports the offset end 12' of the guide support 12. This guide support consists of an arm 12 formed with the offset ends 12' and 12 the end 12 as before stated extending within the aperture 11 formed in the bracket and being held against displacement by disks 14 which are arranged on either side of the supporting arm 10 'ofthe shade bracket 10, the arm 12 thus being free to swing.

The shade guide proper consists in the preferred form of a plate which is bent upon itself to form the walls 15 and 16, the central portion of said plate being rigidly connected to the extension 12" of the arm 12, the walls being curved in order to conveniently receive the edge of the shade, the plate swinging with the arm 12, thus allowing the shade to be drawn at an angle to the roller and at the same time properly directing the same and preventing an uneven winding of the same. It will be noted that the shade will be thus evenly distributed on the roller and the edges effectually protected.

In the form shown in Fig. 4 the guide has its central secured portion beveled in order to reduce friction.

What is claimed is a r 1. In a shade guide, a pivotally supported arm and a guide receiving the edge of the shade rigidly supported by said arm.

2. In a shade guide, a pivotally supported arm, said arm being formed with off set end portions and a guide supported by one of said end portions, said guide being rigidly secured at an angle to said arm.

3. In a shade guide, a bracket, an arm pivotally supported by said bracket and a guide rigidly supported by said arm, said guide being disposed at an angle to said arm, and in the normal path of the shade supported by said bracket.

4. In a shade guide, a bracket, an arm pivotally supported by said bracket, a guide supported by said arm, said guide member being formed with a curved body.

5. In a shade guide, a pivotally supported arm, said arm being formed with offsets extending in opposite directions and ashade guide rigidly supported by one of said 01f sets.

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

FREDERICK J. RUPERT.

Witnesses:

GRACE E. SMITH, M. RUTH KETCHUM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0."

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