US1139729A - Shade-fixture. - Google Patents

Description

J. A. ROUNDS.

SHADE FIXTURE. APPLICATION min ocr.10..19|a.

Patented May18, 1915.

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JAMES A. ROUNDS, OF ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SHADE-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May is, 1915.

Application filed October 10, 1913. Serial No. 794,444.

To all ic/mm it 111 07 concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. RoUNDs, a citiz'zcn of the United States, residing at Atlantic ("ity, in the county of Atlantic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade- Fixtures; and I do hereby-declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention. such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper tains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to shade fixtures, and the principal object thereof is to provide brackets for holding shade rollers, said brackets adapted to be secured to the sashes or casing of a window.

Another object of the invention is to provide window shade bracket-s which will be simple, durable, inexpensive to manufacture,

'cliicicnt in operation, and which may be quickly and easily secured in place or removed without the requirement of skilled labor or of any but ordinary tools.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention resides in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts herein alter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures of which Figure 1, represents a front elevational view of a window showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2, represents a perspective view of a bracket for receiving a squared shade roller pin. Fig. 3, represents a perspective view of a bracket for receiving a round shade roller pin, Fig. -l, represents a vertical. transverse, sectional, view of a portion of the top rail of a window sash showing the invention applied thereto and Fig. 5, represents a plan view of the blank from which the brackets are formed.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the numeral 5 indicates a window casing. and the numerals (3 and 7 indicate the upper and lower sashes respectively, and in Fig. l, l have shown the. shade brackets as attached to the top railsof the window sashes. and also to the top of the casing.

The brackets comprise a body 8 having a top 9 at right angles to the body and down turned teeth ll) at right angles to top 9 and parallel to the body 8,. and an car 11 is formed at right angles to body 8, the ears of certain of the brackets having a recess 12 cut therein for receiving the squared pins 13 of shade rollers 14 and others of the brackets having their car provided with round openings 15 for round pins of said rollers.

In Fig. 5, there is represented the form of blank from which the brackets are made, said blank being substantially rectangular and provided in' one side with a transversely extending slit 16 which forms the upper edge of the cars 13, when the same are bent along the longitudinal line 17, it being noted that the ears are long enough to sufficiently space. the shade rollers from the.

window sashes so as to allow the window shades to be entirely rolled up "Lnout coining in contact with the sashes ofthe window as the diameter of the roll increases. The top portion 9 is adapted to be bent along the transversely line 18 and the prongs 10 which are formed to one edge of the blank are adapted to be bent along the transversely extending line 19. The portion 20 of the brackets occurring between the ears and the top portion 9 has its corner rounded as at 21 and the lower corner 22 of the body of the brackets is rounded as are also the lower and outer edges of the ears so that no sharp corners are left which might catch in curtains and by thus rounding the various portions, 2. more graceful and attractive bracket is formed.

In securing a bracket in place, the body portion 8 is held against the outer face of the top rail of a window sash with the body portion 9 projecting over the rail, and with the teeth or prongs 10 resting against the upper edge of the rail, and the top 9 may then be forced downwardly so that the teeth are" buried in the wood of the rail as illus trated in Fig. 4 thus securely holding the bracket in place. As the line 17 on which the car 13 is bent is substantially the vertical or longitudinal center of the bracket, it is obvious that the strain exerted thereon by extending the shade roller ll is evenly distributed over window to which they are applied as is a common fault with most brackets and window shade attachments. They are very inconspicuous and afford a very attractive ap pearance and at the same time are very easily attached or detached, and do not require the use of screws or bolts or other securing means ordinarily used.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of my invention, I may desire to make such changes as do not depart from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A curtain bracket formed of a blank having parallel side edges with an approximately centrally disposed transverse slit, and a projecting ear portion adjacent said slit with rounded corners, said ear being provided with means for engaging and supporting a curtain roller, and being bent at right angles to the main body portion along the medial line of said body portion, the front edge of said body being serrated and bent to bring said teeth or serrations into spaced parallel relation with said body, said I emu-rut.

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