US1260530A - Combined shade and curtain fixture. - Google Patents

Description

C. & H. W. FERTIG.

COMBINED SHADE AND CURTAIN HXTURE.

APPLiCATION FILED JULY 20. 1917.

1,%0,53. Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

nnrrn ear .arnnr oriar COMBINED SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mis i, 26, 19118.,

Application filed July 20, 1917. Serial No. 181,891.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CLARA Fnn'rre and HENRY WV. Fnn'rre, citizens of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Shade and Curtain Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combination shade and curtain fixture, and has for its principal object to provide a pair of brackets so constructed and arranged that they will provide mountings for a plurality of poles for the support of curtains, a window shade and portieres andto provide mountings for certain pulleys for the support of the cords used for shifting the curtains to open and closed positions, the parts to be few and of such form that they may be conveniently and economically manufactured.

With the foregoing objects in'view and others to be hereinafter mentioned, the invention presents a novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as described herein and claimed and as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein,-

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device, a part of a window and window casing being shown in transverse section. Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the brackets, a fragment of a window casing being added. Fig. 3 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 2, showing the other bracket of the pair. Fig. 4 is a sectional view through one of the loops of a bracket, being a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a front view showing the device applied to a window frame, drawcurtains being added and broken away. Fig.

6 is a view showing a slot formed in the end of a tubular curtain rod. Fig. 7 is a front view of a curtain-ring.

Referring now to the drawing for a more particular description, numeral 8 indicates a window casing to which may be secured the pair of brackets indicated, respectively, at 9 and 10, each consisting of a metallic strip curved at one of its ends, as indicated at 11 for holding a curtain pole 12, and bent between its ends at substantially a right angle as indicated at 13 to provide an arm 14 and a second arm 15, said arm 14 being bent upon itself to provide a reinforcing part 16, and bent inclinedly from the reinforcing part substantially 45 degrees to the second arm lfi to provide a brace 17 and to form a pair of loops and a plurality of recesses outwardly of the brace, the loops for the bracket 9 being indicated respectively at 18 and 19, its recesses being indicated at 20, 21 and 22; and the loops for the bracket 10 beingindicatedrespectively at 23 and 24, the recesses for said bracket being indicated at 25, 26 and 27. Numerals 28 indicate rivets for securing the arms together.

Pulleys are mounted in the recesses, the pulleys provided for the recesses of the bracket 9 being indicated at 29, 30 and 31; and the pulleys for the recesses of the bracket 10 are indicated at 32, 33 and 34. As thus described the brackets provide a mounting within a very limited space for a plurality of rods or poles and such a construction that an unusual number of curtains may be under convenient control, the window shade 35 (Fig. 5) being mounted upon the conventional roller 36 and supported by the inclined braces 17 the brace for bracket 9 being provided with the aperture 37 and the brace of the bracket 10 being provided with the slot 38 for receiving the pins at the respective ends of said roller.

The loops 18 and 23 of the respective brackets 9 and 10 provide a mounting for the curtain rod 39 (Fig. 1) upon which, by means of curtain-rings 40, the inner pair of curtains 41 may be hung; and loops 19 and 24 of said brackets provide a mounting for the curtain rod 42 upon which, by means of the curtain rings 43, the pair of curtains 44 may be hung.

For shifting the pair of curtains 41 to open or closed positions a single cord 45 is used, said cord being in engagement with pulleys 32 and 33 of the bracket 10 and also engaging the pulley 29 of the bracket 9, said cord being connected intermediate its ends with the inner curtain ring 40 of each curtain 41; and for shifting the pair of curtains 44 the single cord 46 is used, said cord being in engagement with pulleys 30 and 31 of the bracket 9 and engaging the pulley 34 of bracket 10, said cord 46 being connected between its ends with the inner curtain ring 43' of each curtain 44.

It will thus be seen that, on account of the arrangement of the pulleys mentioned and use of the cords. the curtains may be quickly and conveniently adjusted, and by use of the device several curtains may be mounted to occupy a very limited space, this often being required for the windows of sleeping rooms, hospitals and hotels for effectively excluding the light.

By referring to Figs. 2, 3 and 4-, it will be noted that each recess 18, 19, 28 and 24 is provided with a projection l7, this being formed by incising and bending parts of the arms 16 of the metallic strips; and angular recesses 48 may be formed to open 011 the ends of the tubular curtain rods 39 and 4:2 to receive said projections as a holding means to prevent collapsing or telescoping of said curtain rods and preventing any endwise movements of said rods, this particular construction being also or further advantage to facilitate the operation of hanging the curtains and tortheir renioval for purposes of laundryin Having fully described our invention, What we claim and desire to secure by'Letters- Patent is,-

l. A combined Window shade and curtain fixture, comprising, in combination with a pair of brackets each consisting of a metallic strip curved at one of its ends for holding a curtain pole and bent between its ends at substantially right angles to provide an arm and a second arm, the first named arm being bent upon itself to provide a reinforcing part and bent inclinedly from the reinforcing part to the second arm to provide a brace and a pair of loops outwardly of the brace for supporting a pair of our- Copies t-ain poles and to form recesses outwardly of the brace for mounting a-plurality of pulleys therein, and a plurality of keepers traversing said arms for maintaining the brace, loops and recesses of the first. named arm in the plane of the second arm.

2. A combined window shade and curtain fixture, comprising, in combination with a pair of brackets each consisting of a metallic strip curved at one of its ends for holding a curtain pole and bent between its ends at right angles to provide an arm and a second arm, the first named arm being bent upon itself to' provide a reinforcing part and bent at substantially forty five degr es from thereinforcingpart to the second arm to provide a b ace and to form a pair of loops outwardly of the bracet'or supporting a winclowshade' and a pair of curtain poles and to formrecesses outwardly of the brace, keepers on the first named arm outwardly of the brace in'engagement with the second arm, and pulleys disposed in said recesses for supporting a plurality of curtain cords.

Iii-testimony whereof, We have afiixed our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

CLARA FERTIG. HENRY /V. FERTIG. Witnesses a,

HIRAM A. sweets, ARTHUR H. ,S'rtmens.

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