US1207078A

US1207078A - Shade or curtain holder.

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Publication number: US1207078A
Application number: US4402415A
Authority: US
Inventors: Thomas W Robertson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-08-06
Filing date: 1915-08-06
Publication date: 1916-12-05
Anticipated expiration: 1933-12-05

Description

T. W. ROBERTSON.

SHADE 0R CURTAIN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.6. I9l5.

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THOMAS W. ROBERTSON, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SHADE OR CURTAIN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

Application filed August G, 1915. Serial No. 44,024.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, TiIOMAs IV. ROBERT- sON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, inthe county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade or Curtain Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable o-thers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

j My invention relates to a shade or curtain holder, and has for its principal object to provide a device of this character which may be adjusted vertically and horizontally, and which may be easily and quickly removed from its mounting when the shade or curtain is to be removed.

In accomplishing this object I have provided improved details of structure, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure I is a perspective view of a shade or curtain holder comprising my improvements, and illustrating a construction adapted for supporting both a shade and curtain. Fig. II is a side view of the same. Fig. III is a plan view of the same the dotted lines illustrating the position of the parts when the shade and curtain are adjusted horizontally. F ig. IV is an elevational view of the supporting bars indicating the vertical adjustment. Fig. V is a vertical section of one of the guide members, and parts of the supporting bars. Fig. VI is a bottom plan view of the same. Fig. VII is a plan View of the same, particularly illustrating a keeper for retaining the movable supporting bar in proper relation to its coacting parts.

Referring more in detail to the drawings: My improved device comprises a window frame, including thej amb 2 and xed to the jamb 2 is an upper bracket 3, having a horizontal arm 4 provided with an aperture 5 at its upper end, and fixed to the j amb beneath the upper bracket is a guide bracket 7 having the horizontal arm 8 lying in the vertical plane of the upper bracket, and provided with a large aperture 9 having a laterally opening slot 10.

12 designates a guide bar, the lower end of which is projected through the aperture 9 in the lower bracket and has a back-turned edge 13 lying beneath the arm S to limit the upward movement of the bar, and having a tip 14( projected through the aperture 5 in the upper bracket arm t; the said tip being provided with an aperture 15 for receiving a cotter pin, or the like, 16, whereby the bar 1-2 is supported from the upper bracket livhile permitting rotary movement of the I ar. i

Slidably mounted in the aperture 9 of the bracket 8 is a supporting bar 1S; the lower end of which depends beneath the bracket 8 and is provided with a handle member 19 whereby the bar may be actuated; the upper end of the bar 1S having an arm 2O lying along one edge of the bar 12, and a hook 21 at its opposite edge overlying the opposite edge of the said bar 12 in order to frictionally grip the bar l2 in a manner presently set forth.

Fixed to the upper end of the bar 18, preferably by riveting the same to a strap 22 thereon, is a curtain rod 23 which may be of suflicient length to extend across the window opening, and suspended from the outer end of said rod 23 is a bracket 24 having an ear 25 in alinement with an ear 2G on the arm 20 in order to properly support a window shade 27 in the alining ears.

Mounted on the opposite ends of the rod 23, respectively, are hooks 29 which project from the rod 23 and are adapted for supporting a free curtain rod 30. The bars 12 and 1S are adapted for projection through the laterally opening slot 10 in the bracket arm 8, and are of such width that they may turn within the aperture 9 in Order to provide for horizontal adjustment of the curtain and'shade parts; the said bars being anchored in the bracket arm S by means of a keeper 31 which is pivotally mounted on a ring member 32 on the bracket 7, so that the keeper may be lifted to expose the slot 10 or drop to place to cover the slot and confine the said bars.

The keeper member is provided with an inner notch 33 that tits snugly over the guide bar 12 and with an outwardly spaced notch 34 which is outset from the bar 18 in order to provide for limited lateral movement of the bar 18 when the parts are to be adjusted vertically.

The arms 20 and hook 21 at the outer end of the bar 18 are spaced slightly from the edge of the guide bar 12 in order to provide for limited lateral movement of the bar 18 in order to release the bar from its frictional lock against its base; the said arm and hook being normally, yieldingly re tained in their locking position, however, by a spring 85 which is fixed to the lower bracket 7 and engages one edge of the bar 18 in order to urge the arm and hook members to their locking contact with the base bar; the free end of th-e spring being pro* jected across the slot 10 to prevent the escape of the bar 18 through the slot. The free end of the spring is of suiiicient resiliency to yield when the bar 18 is to be withdrawn from the bracket.

In using -the device, presuming the parts to be constructed and assembled as described, a curtain (not sho-wn) may be placed on the rod 23, or on a free rod that is supported on the brackets 29, and a shade is supported on the arms 2O and 24k.

Vith the curtain and shade in place, their weight together with that of the rod 23 forces the hook 21 and arm 2O against opposite edges of the base bar so that the outer free bar is locked in position; the tension of the spring 35 being added to the weight of the curtain and shade parts to effect the locking action.

Should it be desired to lower the curtain and shade, the bar 18 is moved laterally against the tension of the spring 35 to re lieve the lock of the arm 20 and hook 21 and the bar lowered until the shade and curtain are in desired position; it being apparent that as soon as the lateral pressure is removed from the bar 18 the weight of the curtain and shade parts and tension of the spring 35 will throw the arm and hook members to their locking position, so that the parts are held in adjusted position. Should it be desired to swing the curtain and shade away from the window, as when the window is to be cleaned, the parts are swung about in their pivotal mounting without effecting the friction lock, and should it be desired to remove the shade and curtain entirely the keeper 31 may be swung up to open the slot 10 and the bar 18 moved out of the slot, so that the arm and hook members may be dis- Copies of this patent may 'be obtained for engaged from the base bar to move the bar 18 with the shade and curtain members thereon from the mounting.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. A device of the character described, comprising spaced brackets, one having an aperture provided with a slot, a base member pivotally mounted in the brackets, an adjustable member slidably mounted in the slotted bracket and adapted for removal through the slot, means on the adjustable member for gripping the base, means on the adjustable member for supporting a shade or curtain, a keeper for confining the adjustable member in the slotted bracket, and a spring on the slotted bracket for urging the adjustable member to locked position.

2. A device of the character described, comprising spaced brackets, a base pivotally mounted in said brackets, an adjustable member slidably mounted in one of the brackets, an arm on said adjustable member overlying one edge of the base, a hook on the adjustable member spaced on the arm and overlying the opposite edge of rsaid base, and means on said adjustable member and on said arm for supporting a shade and curtain.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with spaced brackets, each having an aperture and one having a slot opening from the aperture, a base member revolubly mounted in the bracket aperture, an adjustable member slidably mounted in the slotted bracket and adapted for projection through said slot, a keeper pivotally mounted on the slotted bracket and having an inner notch for closely conning the base member and an outer notch for permitting limited lateral movement of the adjustable member and for confining both members within the bracket aperture, and means on I the adjustable member Jfor supporting a shade or curtain.

In testimony whereof I aiiX my signature.

THOMAS W. ROBERTSON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.