US1189671A - Adjustable shade and curtain bracket. - Google Patents

Description

W. H. DRAKE.

ADJUSTABLE SHADE AND CURTAIN BRACKET APPLICATION FILED suuuz, 1915.

'1 ,1 89,671 Psitented July 4, 1916.

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WILLIAM H. DRAKEQGFASHEVILLE, NOB/TH CAROLENA, ASSIGEIOB, BY ASSIGN- MEETS, TO J. S. E'IIAR DIS, OF B'UNGQMBE CG'UNTY, NORTH GARQLINA.

ADJUSTABLE SHADE AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

new m Application filed July 17, 1915.

To all who-m it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. DRAKE, a citizenof the United States, residing at Asheville, in the county of Buncombe and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in-Adjustable Shade and Curtain Brackets; 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 appertains to make and use the same.

The primary object of this invention is to so construct a combined window shade and curtain bracket that the same can be readily applied to any style of window frame, can be adjusted to accommodate win dow frames of different widths, and will admit of the window shade and curtains being expeditiously mounted on the respective brackets. I

Another object of the invention is to provide a bracket of the nature above set forth,

which can be manufactured cheaply, will be durable and can be readily adjusted.

Other objects will appear and. be better understood from that embodiment of my invention of which the following is a specilication, reference being had to the accompanying1 drawings forming a part thereoi, in whic Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of the upper portion of a window frame, Show ing the brackets attached thereto. Fig. 2 1s a side elevation of one of the brackets' showing .the same removed from the window frame. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the curtain brackets detached from the win dow shade bracket.

Referring to the drawings, the letters A and B designate, as entireties, the ad3ustably connected brackets. The bracket A. consists of a single length of wire bent at a point 1 and having one end extended to provide a horizontally connecting arm 2 and an'outwardly extending shade supporting arm 3, which extends at right angles to the.

horizontal arm 2, as shown in Fig. l of the drawing. The arm 3 is provided with a centrally located U-shaped depression l, which is adapted to receive the squared trunnion of a window shade roller, not shown.

The wire is bent and extended rearwardly from the outer end of the arm to provide a horizontal. portion 5, which overlies the Specification of Letters Patent.

lla't-ented J at, 1936.

Serial No. 40,479.

arm. 3 and extends parallel therewith. The opposite end of the wire is then coiled vertically at the inner end of the horizontal portion 5, and at a point in rear of the depression 4, as shown at 6, and the saidesnd is continued upwardly and curved outwardly from the coiled portion 6 to provide an arouate shaped portion 7. The endof the Wire is then coiled at the upper end of the arcuate portion 7 to provide an eye 8, which is arranged in vertical alinement with the coiled portion 6, as shown in Fig 2 of the drawing, and the end of the Wire is then extended upwardly from the eye 8 to provide a vertical portion 9. The vertical portion 9 is adapted to engage the front face of the upper cross bar 0 of the window frame, as shown in Fig. 1, and the upper end of the vertical portion. 9 is bent rearwardly and extended at right angles to provide a'horizontal portion 10, which engages over the upper side of the cross bar 0 of the Window frame, and the said horizontal portion has its free terminal bent downwardly. and sharpened to provide an attaching spur 11, which is adapted to penetrate the cross bar C and form asecuring means for the bracket A.

The bracket B, like the bracket A, also consists of a single piece of wire bent at a point 12 to provide a shade supporting arm 13, and the said wire has one end extended horizontally and at right angles to the shade supporting arm 13, and in the direction of the connecting arm 2 of the. bracket A so as to provide a connecting arm 14:. The arm 2 of the bracket A is provided with a plurality of eyes 15, which, as shown in Fig. 1,

are adapted to loosely and slidably receive the connecting arm 1d of the bracket B, so that the brackets A and B can-have adjust-able connection with each other. The shade supporting arm 13 is centrally pro vided with a coiled portion 16, which is arranged in horizontal alinement with the depressions t of a supporting arm 3 of the bracket A, andis adapted to rotatively receive the cylindrical trunnion of the shade roller, not shown.

The opposite end of the wire, of which the bracket 13 is formed, is extended rear" wardly, as at 17, from the outer nd of the shade supporting arm 13, and overlies and is parallel with the said shade supporting arm 13 and has its rear end of the horizontal portion 1'?" coiled vertically, as shown at 18, and at a point in rear of the coiled portion 16. T he end. of the wire is then continued upwardly from the coiled portion 16,

and 1s curved outwardly to provide an arcuate portion 19, smnlar to the arcuate portion 7 on the bracket A and 1s colled at the upper end of the arcuate portion to pro vide an eye 20, which is arranged in vertical alinement with the coiled portion 18, the

wardl as at 23 and shar Jened to rovide a prong. adapted to penetrate the upper side of the cross bar C. I

Removably' associated with the brackets A nd B, is a pair of curtain pole sup1')ort-- ing members 24. Each of these members is formed of a single piece of 'wire, having one end bent outwardly and curved downwardly to provide a seat 25, for one end of the curtain pole, not shown, and a vertically depending portion 26, the lower end of which is extended upwardly, as shown at 27, and in spaced parallel relation with the portion 26, and then curved, as at 28, and extended downwardly to provide a vertically connecting portion 29. The vertically connecting portions 29 of "the curtain bracket, are adapted to be detachably received, respectively, by the alined coils and eyes 6 and 8 and 18 and 20, in the respective brackets A and B, as shown in Fig. 1: of thedrawin From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will be seen that a combined curtain and shade bracket, constructed in accordance therewith, can be applied to any style of window frame, and adjusted to accommo date the width of the frame; and also readily admit of the curtain and shades being applied thereto.

Ilaving thus described my invention what I claim as new, is: i

1. A device of the class described comprising supporting members, each formed of a single piece of wire having one end extended to provide 'a connecting arm, the connecting arm of one supporting member being adjustably connected to the supporting arm of the other supporting member, the said wire having its other end bent outwardly to provide a shade supporting arm, and then bent inwardly and extended above the shade supporting arm and coiled to provide a vertically disposed socket, the said end of the wire being then extended from the coiled portion and terminally bent to provide an attaching portion.

In combination, a pair of adjustably connected supporting members, each being formed of a single length of wire having one end bent upwardly to provide an arm, the said end of the wire being again bent and extended inwardly to provide a horiv ontal portion disposed above the arm and coiled to provide a vertically disposed socket and an oflset portion, the said socket and offset portion being disposed to one side of the horizontal portion, a bracket having a vertical portion having its lower end positioned at one side of the horizontal arm and adjacent the offset portion and the vertical socket, and having-its lower end bent upwardly and interposed between the horizontal arm and the offset portion and then bent downwardly and removably received by the socket.

In testimony whereof I atliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. DRAKE.

Witnesses ANNIE L. MENELL, Gno. PENMJLL.

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