US1282728A - Supporting-bracket for window shades and curtains. - Google Patents

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F. H. & A. R. w. BASSETT/ SUPPORTING BRACKET FOR WINDOW SHADES AND CURTAINS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I2, I91].

00 1 9 9 2 C 0 d an t H 6 i a P FENWICK H BASSETT AND ANNA R. W. BASSETT, OF NORWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented net. as, rare.

Application filled May 12, 1917. Serial No. 168.271.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FENWICK H; BAssnr'r and ANNA R. W. BASSETT, citizens of the United States, residing at Norwood, county of Delaware, and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporting-Brackets for Window Shades and Curtains, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists of improved supporting brackets for windowshades and ourtains'. One object of our invention is to provide bracketswhich can be easily and quickly attached to the movable sashes'of windows and which will be capable of supporting roller shades and curtains, thus enabling the shades and curtains to be moved bodily with the window sashes.

Another object is to so construct our improved supporting brackets that they will permit sufficiently wide shades and curtains tldbe used so as to completely cover the width of the window.

A further object is to so design our improved brackets that shades and curtains can be quickly attached thereto or removed therefrom.

A still further object is to so construct our improved brackets that they will be of simple construction and can be manufactured and sold at a low cost. V

These objects and other advantageous ends which will be described hereinafter, we attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a window having our invention thereon. Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross section of Fig. 1. showing in outside view, the sashes,

, brackets, and elements which they support.

of one of our iming one of our improved brackets havin a hole therein for the roller shade."

Referring toi'the drawings, 1 represents the window frame including a slidable upper sash 2 and a slidable lower sash 3. These cylindrical end 0 a.

sash, as is usually the custom, slide between strips 4 secured to the'oppositely disposed innersurfaces of the window frame.

A pair of our improved brackets 5 and 6 are secured to theupper portion of the sash The brackets 5 and 6 are substantiallv arm 7. The plate 5 is provided with screw holes and is adapted to be secured to the movable sash by means of screws 8. The arm 7 has an off-set portion 9 which is sufficiently far removed from the plate 5 to extend in front of the window frame 1 as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The off-set portion 9 as illustrated, is made substantially at right angles to the portion 10 of the arm 7 and has a forwardly projecting portion 11. This projecting portion 11 has a notch 12 to receive the angular end 13 of a shade roller 14 (see Fig. 1).

The projecting portion 11, at its outermost end, has a finger 15 designed to project through an opening 16 in a curtain pole 17.

'A recess 18 is formedin the upper edge of the projecting portion 11 and forms a receptacle for receiving one end of the curtain pole if the latter is not providedwith a hole similar to 16. In other'words, the curtain pole can be supported either on the finger 15 or within the recess 18 considering that the bracket 6 also has a finger 15 and recess 19 to support the opposite end of the curtain pole. The bracket 6, as above noted, is substantially identical with the bracket 5 with the exception that instead of having the notch 12, a hole 19 is provided (see Fig. 6).

Furthermore, the portion 9 of the bracket 6 extends in an opposite direction to that in which the portion 9 of the bracket 5 extends inorder to permit the end of the shade roller 14 which has the cylindrical portion 20 thereon to extend beyond the opening in the window frame as clearly ,shown in Fig. 2,'-it being noted that the cylindrical portion 20 of the shade roller fits and is free to rotate within the hole .19 in the bracket 6.

We preferably secure the brackets 5 and 6 ad acent the top portion of the upper sash 2 and the portions 10 of the brackets are sufficiently long to extend to the inside of the room in which the window is located. By this construction and arrangement, it is possible to lower the window from the top to secure air in the room without interfering with the curtain or shade, since the curta n and shade will be lowered with the Window sash. Thus, our invention is of praotica use and is extremely efficient.

While we have described our invention as taking a particular form, it. will be understood that the various parts of our invention may be changed without departing from the spirit thereof, and hence we do not limit ourselves to the precise construction set forth, but consider that we are at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly come within the scope of the, appended claim.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A pair of brackets, each of said brackets having an integral portion designed to be secured to the movable sash of a Window; an arm projecting downwardly'from said first portion; an integral offset portion on said arm of sufficient distance from said first portion to extend in front of the Window frame; and a projecting portion leading from said offset portion, said latter projecting portion having a part adapted to support a curtain pole and another part adapted to support the ends of a shade roller, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FENWICK H. BASSETT. ANNA R. W. BA-SSETT. Witnesses:

MARY A. INGLAR, CHAs. E. Po'r'rs.

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