US1040186A - Shade-curtain fixture. - Google Patents

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S. J. GILL. SHADE CURTAIN FIXTURE. APPLIOATION FILED MAY 9, 1912.

1 ,040, I 86, Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHADE-CURTAIN FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1,1912.

Application filed May 9, 1912. Serial No. 696,146.

.citizen of the United States, residing at Hammond, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful 1 Improvements in Shade-Curtain Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shade curtain fixtures and has for its main object to provide a shade curtain fixture adapted to be permanently attached to a window frame or the'like and capable of holding in place any one of a number of shade rollers whose length may vary several inches beyond that occupied by a shade roller fitted originally to be held between the two brackets of a fixture located at certain places on the window frame.

pable of longitudinal adjustment, whereby the distance between the roller-supporting points on said socket members may be 2 lengthened or shortened to accommodate any shade roller within certain limitations of length.

Other objects and advantages will be made apparent in the course of this specification 5 and with all of said objects and advantages 1n view this invention consists 1n the several novel features of construction, arrangement and combinations of parts hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

The invention is clearly illustrated in-the drawing furnished herewith in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper part of a window frame, showing my improved shade curtain fixture sccured thereto and supporting a shade roller and curtain pole, Flg. 2 is a front view of one bracket of the fixture, partly broken out, Fig. 3 a vertical section taken on the-line 3.-3 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the base member of the bracket, Fig. 5 is an end view of the socket member of the bracket, Fig. 6 is a view, partly in longitudinal sec tion and partly in side elevation of a fragment of the socket member and shade roller,

detached from each other and Fig. 7 is a similar view at the other end of the shade roller and the other socket member.

In the embodiment of the invention illusltrated in the drawing, two brackets A, A are employed, each being permanently secured to the window frame B, as for instance by means of the screw a. The two brackets j of the fixture are substantially alike, and one ;of them will now be described in detail: ;Each bracket comprises a base member 10, preferably struck up of sheet metal, as Eshown in Fig. 4, and formed at its base with perforated cars 11, through which are passed screws that fasten the bracketto the window I frame. The base member is preferably of V 'shape in formation, having two sides 12, connected by a transverse web 13. The side :pieces 12, are formed with key hole slots 14:, adapted to receive the stem 15 of a socket member 15, which is adjustably secured therein and said transverse web 13, of the bracket is formed with an inwardly stamped tongue 16, which forms a stop for the stem :15, as will be hereinafter set forth.

Where it is desired to support lace cur- 'gtains or other draperies from a fixture emlbodying my invention, I provide a hook- {like device 17 soldered or otherwise'secured Fto each base member 10, as shown in Figs. 1 Fand 3, said hook-like member having an upturned end 18, adapted to enter holes in the curtain rod shown at 19, whereby lhe latter jmay be detachably secured upon said hooklike members.

The stem 15, of each socket member is ;preferably struck up from sheet metal and has an ornamental thumb piece 20, at one end and a socket or opening 21, 21, in the :other end, adapted to receive the pins or studs 22, 22*, of the shade roller 23. The shade roller construction is well known and usually has some form of coiled spring arrangement, between the pin or stud 29., and roller body for re-winding the curtain 24, upon the shade roller after the curtain has been drawn down and released. This pin .or stud is also formed with a non-circular end adapted to enter the socket or opening 21, which is made to conform to the shape of,

the non-circularend of the pin or stud 22. In Fig. 6 I have shown said socket or opening as formed in a separate thimblc rigidly secured in the open end of the socket member 15, but this particular form of construction is not material inasmuch as the end,

of the shade roller having the cylindrical pin or stud 22 The stem 15, is forn' ed with a number of closely spaced teeth 26, extending longitudinally of the stem and projecting radially therefrom and certain of said teeth are made to engage with the side walls 12, of the base member 10, for the purpose of holding the socket member in fixed relation to the base member after it has been adjusted in place therein. Said key holeslots 14, are ofa shape to freely admit the passage of the teeth through the openings and by bringing certain of the notches between the teeth 26, into register with the side walls 12, ofthe'base member, the stem may be turned around upon its axis to confine the adjacent edges ofv the side walls between the teeth of two pair of teeth as clearly shown in Fig.2. In practice the stem is turned around until those teeth within the base member engage with the tongue 16, which prevents its further rotation in that direction. It is to be observed that the downward pull upon the attached to a window frame as shown in Fig. 1, after which the socket members 15, may be adjusted longitudinally in the base member of each bracket to accommodate any shade holder whose length is not greater than the distance between the brackets which may be considerably less, within certain limits, depending of course upon the length of the stems 15. In securing a shade roller in place upon a pair of brackets containing the present invention, the shade roller is held central between the two brackets, the stems thrust inward through the key hole slots 14, until the pins 22, 22", seat in the sockets 21, 21 in the opposing ends of the stems, after which both stems may be turned around in the brackets until the teeth engage the tongues 16.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing A building provided with fixtures of the kind herein described, has this particular advantage, namely: the fixtures need not be removed and replaced in case a different shade roller is substituted for the one originally held by said brackets, provided said shade roller is narrower, within certain defined limits, than the distance between the two brackets of the fixture.

I realize that various alterations and modifications of this device are possible without departing from the spirit of my invention, and I do not therefore desire to limit myself to the exact form of construction shown and described.

v I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a shade curtainfixture, a base member having a key hole slot in its side, and a tongue adjacent said slot, in. combination,

with a socket member capable of holding one end of a shade roller, and having a series of spaced teeth extending longitudinally of the socket member, and adapted for engagement with the base member and tongue, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a shade curtain fixture, a sheet metal base member, having key hole slots in its sides, and a tongue extending to a point adjacent said key hole slots, in combination with a socket member, capable of holding one end of a shade roller, and having a series of spaced teeth extending longitudinally thereof and adapted to pass through said key hole slots, andto embrace the sides of the base member when turned in said key hole slots, said tongue actingas a stop limiting rotation of said socket member in one direction.

3. In a shadecurtain fixture, a sheet metal base member, having key hole slots in its sides, and a tongue stamped in from its front and extending to a point between said key hole slots and immediately behind them, in combination with a socket member, having a stem formed with a socket in one end for the reception of a curtain pole pin'or stud, and also formed with a series of spaced teeth extending longitudinally of the stem and adapted to pass through said key hole slots, and engage said tongue and sides of the base member when the stem is turned through a certain arc in said slots.

STANISLAVV J. GILL.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. Knosr, W. R. LINNIsToN.

Washington, D. C.

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