US1476160A

US1476160A - Window-shade-roller fixture

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Publication number: US1476160A
Application number: US602905A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles W Kirsch
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-11-23
Filing date: 1922-11-23
Publication date: 1923-12-04
Anticipated expiration: 1940-12-04

Description

Dec. 4 1923.

I 1,476,160 c. w. KIRSCH I WINDOW SHADE ROLLER FIXTURE Filed Nov. 23, 1922 Patented Dec. 4, 1923.

UNITED SATE CHARLES W. KIRSCH, OF STUIRGIS, MICHIGAN.

WINDOW-SHADE-ROLLER rixronn.

application filed November 23, 1922.. Serial No. 602,905.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. Kmson, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sturgis, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window- Shade-Roller Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a window-shade roller fixture including, as an integral part thereof, the brackets required to pivotally support a windowshade roller of .the Hartshorn or similar type, and a companion element, also integral therewith, to which a hood for covering the extreme end portions of the shade,

roller .may be detachably secured, and wherein the last-namedelement ofthe fixture, and the hood, are so associated when coupled, as to present to the eye no open- 7 space beyond the end of the shade rollerr The invention may be embodied in fixtures adapted to'be mounted. on the front surface of a window frame or the like or upon the opposed side walls thereof, both embodiments, in their preferred form, being illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of fixtures constructed in accordance with my invention, together with a window shade roller and window shade supported thereby, showing the same mounted upon the front wall of a window casing;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig, 1;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal orplan section on the line 33 of Fig. 1;-

.Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one member of the fixture;

Fig. 5 is a similar perspective viewj the fixture as embodied to adapt it to be cured to one of the opposed side walls of a \'\"indow.casing or the l-ike;-and

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the hood adapted to be associated with the respective fixtures shown'in Figs. 4 and 5.

The present invention resides in certain improvements in the device illustrated and described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,388,846, dated August 23, .1921.

nary manner, whereby the relative positions of such fixtures and the cover means may be definitely maintained and both thereof simultaneously mounted on a win dow casing without the double work and measuring required where such fixtures are separate fromeach other.

A further object of the invention is to provide a window-shade fixture of the character set forth adapted for mounting either on the' front face or the opposed side walls of a window casing or the like wherein the hood and the meansfor detachably se-t curing the same to. such fixtures are identical and interchangeable, that is to say, so that the same. hood may be used for either type of such fixtures."

Referring now to said drawings and particularly to Fig. .4, thereof, it will be seen that the device comprises a plate 1 equipped on opposigeparallel edges with parallel flanges 2 and the latter being formed to adapt the same to receive the respective end projections of a window-shade roller, as;for example, is shown in Fig. 4 for one end, and in Fig. 2 for the other end of such roller. The flange 2 terminates at its extreme end in a tongue 4 equipped with an integral flat spring portion 5 at about itsmiddle, said tongue. being adapted to engage formations of the hood. 6, hereinafter described, fondetachably securing said hood to said flange. The plate 1 is further provided along one edge, with projections 7 having openings or perforations 8 there I porting the window-shade roller in the ordi for the passage of Screws or the like, means of WhlCh Sid plate may be secured to the front face of a window casing. In Fig. ithe said projecmiddle portion of the plate 1, whereas, as shown in Fig. 5, said projections are disposed contiguous to the opposite side edges of the flange 9 (corresponding generally with the flange 2 of Fig. 4) and extend perpendicutions 7 are disposed contiguousflto theside edges of the flange 3 and are flush, with the larlyor substantially perpendicularly to the middle portion of the plate 10, (corresponding to the plate 1 of Fig. 4) said plate 10 being-however, slightly curved and terminating in the shade-roller fixture or bracket 11 corresponding to the fixture or bracket 3, shown in Fig. 4. r

' The extreme end portion 12 of the flange 9 corresponds in size and shape and in every other detail, with the tongue 4 of Fig. 4, so

that the same hood 6 adapted to be mounted ably mounted upon the said end portion 12 of the flange 9.

Referring now to Fig. 6, it will be noted that the hood consists of the substantially semi-cylindrical wall portion 6, the ends of which terminate in parallel flat flanges 13. Said hood is provided with-an end wall 14, out of which there are struck a plurality of pairs of opposed fL-shaped projections or flanges 15 between the outermost portions of which, and the inner face of Said wall 14, the tongue 4, or end portion 12 of the

flanges

2 or 9, respectively, are adapted to be received and engaged, the side edgeportions of said tongue 4, and end portion 12, respectively, being adapted to abut against the lugs of said flanges or projections 15, in an, obvious manner. The springs 5 are offset out of register with the opposite faces of the tongue 4 and end portion 12, respectively, and outwardly with respect to the outer face thereof and are adapted to bear upon the inner face of the end'wall 14 of the hood to provide sufficient frictional engagement to firmly hold the hood engaged with the tongue or end portion, respectively, referred to.

The said end-wall 14 of the hood is provided with a recess 16 midway between its side edges, said recess being of slightly greater width than the tongue 4 or end portion 12 and being adapted to have the inner fac'eof its end wall become disposed flush and in contact with the base of the tongue 4 or end portion 12, the portions of the end wall bordering the sides of the recess 16 being adapted, in the case of the fixture shown in Fig. 4, to overlap that portion of the flange 2 which is disposed inwardly of the tongue 4. The portion referred tomay be said to extend from the plane of the shoulclers 17 outwardly to the base of the tongue 4, thus providing recesses or cut away portions outwardly of the base portion of the flange 2 into which the flanges 13 are adapted to project. Thus, when the hood is mounted on the fixture shown in Fig. 4, there will be no open space between the base of the flange 2 and the outermost portion of the hood 6, this being particularly illustrated in Fig. 2.

Owing to the-fact that the projections 11, in the case of the construction shown in Fig. 5, must be cut out of a part of the metal which, in F ig. 4, constitutes the flange 2, the end portion 12, corresponding to the aw ence tongue 4, is of slightly greater width than the flange 9 inwardly thereof, so that when the hood is mountedon said portion 12, the portions of the endwall at the sides of. the recess 16, will overlap the projectionsw 11 and, because 'of the fact that said projections are secured to a side wall of a window, casing or the like, such overlapping effects substantially the same results, in so-far as presenting no open spaces to the eye is concerned, as the overlapping of a portion of the flange 2 by the said portion of the end wall bordering the slots of the recess; 16, accomplishes with. respect to the structure shown in Fig. 4.

Obviously the invention may be somewhat said flange provided with means for engaging a pivot element of a shade roller, a second flange extendin from the opposite edge of said plate parall el with the first named flange, a hood adapted to cover and hide from view the first named flange and the contiguous portion of a shade-roller engaged therewith, and inter-engaging formations on said last named flange and said hood for separably coupling them.

2. In a device of the kindspecified as de-.

fined in the preceding claim, including a substantially semi-cylindrical hood havin one end wall and having its semi-cylindrical wall terminating in parallel flanges separated from each other a distance substantially equal to the width of the plate, the

end wall of said hood extending betweensaid flanges and presenting an edge flush with the ends thereof, the said end wall of the hood adapted to overlap a parallel portion cf the structure when disposed in normal position thereon whereby to obviate open spaces between the innermost edge portion of the end wall of the hood andthe plate.

CHARLES W. KIRSCH.