US1245280A

US1245280A - Curtain-stretcher.

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Publication number: US1245280A
Application number: US9138216A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward E Simpson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-04-15
Filing date: 1916-04-15
Publication date: 1917-11-06
Anticipated expiration: 1934-11-06

Description

E. E. SIMPSON.

CURTAIN STRETCHER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15. 1916.

1,245,280. Patented Nov. 6,1917.

WITNESSES ATTORNEY EDWARD E. SIMPSON, OF OAKLAND, IOWA.

CURTAIN-STRETGI-IER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

Application filed April 15, 1916. Serial No. 91,332.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. SIMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Potta-wattarnie and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain- Stretchers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain stretchers and more particularly to a class of ourtain vstretchers which are employed for stretching lace curtains after they have been washed'and while they are drying.

The invention further aims to provide a curtain stretcher that will securely hold the edges of the curtain without danger of injury being done thereto and one which may be adjusted to any desired width for receiving various sizes of curtains.

A further object of this invention is the provision of curtain stretcher which consists of comparatively few parts and is simple in construction, but durable and well adapted to withstand the rough usage to which devices of this character are ordinarily subjected.

For a full description of the invention and the advantages and merits thereof, reference is to be had to the following description and the accompanying drawings, wherein is illustrated the preferred form of my invention, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view.

Fig. 2 is an edge elevation.

Fig. 3 is a vertical fragmentary section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary vertical section on the line H of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary vertical section on the line 55 of Fig. 1.

A pair of supporting bars 1 are provided which have their ends bifurcated to provide a slot 2. The center of each of the supporting bars 1 has a recess 3 which is cut inwardly from the bottom face of the supporting bars and mounted in the recesses 3 is a central spacing bar at which has one end secured to one of the supporting bars 1 by means of the fastening bolt 5. The spacing bars 5 are mounted in bifurcations 2 of the supporting bars 1 and one of the supporting bars may be slidably adjusted on the spacing bars 4 and 5 for clamping different sizes of curtains. The adjustment of the spacing bars is accomplished by loosening the nuts which extend through the bifurcations and the corresponding spacing bars. Mounted on each of the spacing bars 1 is a clamp bar 6 which is designed to clamp the edges of the curtain to the top face of the supporting bars 1 and to accomplish this each of the

bars

1 and 6 have a plurality of al'ining apertures 7 and 8 through which clamp bolts 9 are extended and are clamped together by the thumb nuts '10 which are screw threadcdly mounted on each of the clamp'bolts 9.

As has been stated the central spacing bar tis secured to one of the supporting bars 1 by means of the fastening bolt 5'. This bolt extends through one of the clamp bars 6 and is provided with an elongated washer 11 upon which the thumb nut 12 bears when the central spacing bar 4; is bolted in-position'. The opposite end of the central spacing bar 4 is clamped into position by means of the yoke-clamp 13 which is clamped to the stretcher after the sliding supporting bar has been adjusted to the proper width for receiving the curtain to be stretched.

In order that the end edges of the lace curtain may be held in position so that the edges will be straight while the curtain is being dried. I provide each of the end spacing bars 5 with clamp strips 6 which rest upon the top of the spacing bars 5 and are clamped thereto bv the clamps 13 which are similar in construction to the clamps 13. Any number of these clamps strips 6 may be employed according to the width of the curtain. From this construction it will be observed that the edges at both the sides and ends of the curtain will be held in fixed position.

In operation it is only necessary to loosen the thumb nuts 10, place the edges of the curtain between the clamp bars 6 and the supporting bars 1 and, by virtue of the position of the bolts adjacent the outer edge of the bars, the curtain finds sufficient clamping surface adjacent the inner edges of the supporting and clamping bars. The thumb nuts are then tightly screwed upon the clamp bolts 9 and the curtain will be in stretched positicn for drying.

In reduction to practice I have found that the form of my invention illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description, as the preferred embodiment, is the most efficient and practicable, yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the adoption of my device will necessarily vary, I desire to emphasize the fact that various minor changes in the details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, when required, Without sacrific: ing any of the advantages of my invention, as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A curtain stretcher including a pair of parallel supporting bars, each having a transverse recess provided on its bottom surface intermediate its ends, each end of each bar being also bifurcated to provide a slot at'each end of each bar, spacing bars mounted in the slots, and a central spacing bar mounted in the said recesses, a clamp bar mounted upon each supporting oar, clamp bolts clamping the clamp bars to the said supporting bars, some of the said bolts eX- tending through the bifurcated ends of the supporting bars to clamp the ends of the spacing bars in the said slots, means for pivotally fixing one end of the central spacing bar to one of the supporting bars, and a clamp releasably fixing the opposite end of the central spacing bar to the other of said supporting bars.

2. A curtain stretcher including a pair of Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, i

parallel supporting bars, each having a transverse recess provided on its bottom surface intermediate its ends, each end of each bar being alSO bifurcated to provide a slot at each end of each bar, spacing bars mounted in the slots, and a central spacing bar mounted in the said recesses, a clamp bar mounted upon each supporting bar, clamp bolts clamping the clamp bars to the said supporting bars, some of the said bolts extending through the bifurcated ends of the supporting bars to clamp the ends of the spacing bars in the said slots, means for pivotally fixing one end of the central spacing bar to one of the supporting bars, a clamp releasably fixing the opposite end of the central spacing bar to the other of said supporting bars, the said means including an elongated washer, and a thumb-nut operating on the washer to clamp the same in tight gngagement with the corresponding clamp In testimonv whereof I a-iiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD E. SIMPSON.

Witnesses W. W. MoRoRY, L. C. HANNAH.

Washington, D. C.