US1363328A - Window-shade bracket - Google Patents

Description

W. G. LESCH. wlNnow SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 8, i919.

1,363,328. Patented Dee. 28, 1920.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. LESCI-I, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1920.

Application led December 8, 1919. Serial No. 343,230.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLTAM G. LEsoH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I/Yindow-Shade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesrto that class of window shade brackets which is formed with a screw and adapted to -be screwed by hand into a window frame without the use of tools.

One object of the invention is to provide a bracket which will take any width of shade when applied to any window frame. This is accomplished by constructing the bracket so it will fit on any part of the win dow frame and can be screwed into the corner of the molding as well as on the fiat surface.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bracket which will not mar the finish on the window frame.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bracket which is stronger and more rigid than the usual construction of wire brackets while at the same time of an 1mproved design and simple and inexpensive to manufacture.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, as hereinafter described and pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, in which like characters denote like parts in the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a plan View of one bracket of the pair.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same and showing it mounted in the corner of the molding of a window frame which 1s 1n section.

Fig. 3 is the screw end elevation of the same bracket shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the second of a pair of brackets, or the one which supports the spring end of a window shade.

Figs. 5 and 6 are, respectively, a side elevation and an end elevation of the bracket shown in Fig. 4.

Each of the brackets is formed of a single piece of wire or other suitable materiahrepresented by 1 in the first bracket and by 14 in the second bracket. In Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the screw is 3 and formed on the end of the straight top portion 2 of the bracket, which 1s then looped to form a circular opening 4 to support the round journal of the shade roller, and continued in a horizontal line at 5. At 1 the bracket is curved downward and forming the brace 6 is bent upward to the part 7 which is curved upward and toward the screw point 3. At 8 the bracket 1s looped around the portion 2 near the inner end of the screw thread 3 and grips tightly into the groove 9.

Anchoring the brace 6 firmly at 8 in the groove 9 makes it solid with the top portions 2 and 5, thereby making the whole bracket stronger than the usual construction in which the brace is loosely wound at one end around the top portion. This also is for the purpose of holding 8 firmly and not allowing it to give when screwed up tightly against the surface 12 of the window frame 11 as in Fig. 2. 10 is a washer, preferably.

of felt, mounted on the screw 3 and against the loop 8 to prevent the latter from marring the window frame surface 12.

13 is the molding sectional outline of a window frame and shows how my bracket clears it when screwed into a corner, which is not possible with the usual construction where the brace extends at a right angle to the screw portion and so requires a flat surface the full depth of the brace. Also in the latter construction the brace mars the window frame the full depth of the brace when screwed in on account of giving where looped around the screw.

In Figs. 4, 5 and 6, 16 is the screw, 15 and 24 the straight top portions between which is formed a downwardly projecting loop 17 to hold the fiat spring end of the shade roller. 18 is the brace which is bent downward at 14 and diagonally up at 19 (see Fig. 6) to the portion 2O which curves upward and toward the screw 16. 22 is a groove into which the end 2l is bent and firmly grips. 23 is the washer the same as 10 on bracket 1. These washers are preferably made with a hole slightly smaller than the largest part of the threads on screws 3 and 16 to hold them in vplace while being handled.

The operation of my bracket will be readily apparent from the above description andthe drawings.

I claimzff V1. A Window shade bracket made of wire llO said Wire forming a loop held in said reduced section and the remaining portion oi `said Wire Shaped to form a Support for a shade and a brace for said support. l5

In testimony whereof I ailiX my Signature in the presence of two subscrlhmg Witnesses.

l/VILLIAM Gr. LESCH.

Vitnesses GUSTAVE LESCH, CHARLES B.l MoULTHRoP.

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