US1545160A - Window-shade support - Google Patents

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July 7, 1925. 1,545,160

A. E. MYERS wmnow SHADE SUPPORT 7 Filed Dec. 29, 1925 2 Sheets-Eheet 1 July 7, 1925.

A. E. MYERS WINDOW SHADE SUPPORT Filed Dec'. 29, 1923 2 Sheefi-Sheea 2 Patented July 7, 1925.

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AUSTIN E. MYERS, OF PALIVIYBA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed December 29, 1923. Serial No. 683,399.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUs'rru E. hfrnns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Palinyra, in the county of Lebanon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vindow-Shade Supports, of which the following is a speciflcation.

This invention relates to window shade support, and particularly to a construction in which the holding brackets are carried by supports detachably mounted upon a. window frame.

In the prior art separate devices have been clamped or secured upon window frame to carry shade brackets but these constructions lack the advantage of a unitary device adapted to be readily affixed to or removed from the window frame and carrying the shade brackets for adjustment to properly center the shade roller relative to the window.

This invention has for an object to pro vide a novel and improved construction comprising spaced supporting plates carrying shade brackets and adapted to engage. the window frame, together with resilient means connecting the plates to exert a retaining tension thereon which may be adjusted to determine the proper relation or tension upon the plates' 7 A further object of the invention is to provide a novel construction of central. support upon which a bracket member is adjustably mounted, and end bracket supports having a flange to engage a portion of a window frame, said center and end supports being connected by a spring and straps there from secured to the opposite supports.

Another object of the invention is to pre sent an improved construction of end support having parallel flanges to provide an elongated bearing for an adjustable bracket member and also an angular portion formed with teeth to engage a window frame, together with tension means connecting said support to a cooperating support likewise engaged with the window frame.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter set forth and the novel features thereof defined by the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation showing the invention applied;

Figure 2 1s a top plan thereof;

Figure 3 is a plan showing a modified application of the invention;

Figure a is an elevation of one of the end supports;

Figure 5 is a top plan thereof;

Figure 6 is an elevation of the center support;

Figure 7 is a plan thereof;

Figure 8 is section on line 88 of Fig ure 5;

Figure 9 is a similar view on line- 99 of Figure 6; and

Figure 10 is a detail perspective of the central bracket.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several figures of the drawing.

The invention is herein shown as provided with brackets for supporting a window sh de but these brackets may be of any desired character adapted to support curtain rods or drapery and the device may be constructed of any desired size or configuration suitable for particular applications. In the form shown in Figure 1 the invention is applied to a double window and adapted to be engaged with the frame 10 thereof. For this pur; -ose a central plate 11 is provided and has an angular flange 12 at its upper portion adapted to rest upon the top of the window frame and to be secured against lateral movement thereon by any desired means. for instance the teeth or prongs 13 as shown in Figur 9, which may be cut from the. end of the portion 12 and bent inward so as to be driven into the window frame to maintain the plate against movement.

The lower portion 14 of the plate is pro vided with parallel overturned flanges 15 which form a sliding support for the body 16 of the bracket member which is formed with the angular arms 17 provided with the usual pivot opening and spring retaining slot. This bracket member is slidingly adjustable upon th flanges and may be frictionally secured in position thereon by pressure upon the flanges when the bracket is properly centered upon the window.

At each end of the window frame the end supports 18 are provided and are formed with an angular portion 19 adapted to en gage the end or side of the window frame and to be secured against vertical movement thereon by means of retaining teeth 20 similar to the teeth 13 before described. The inner end of this plate is pivotally connected at 21 with a strap 22 which is'connected by suitable tension means such as the coiled spring 23 with a cooperating strap 24 pivoted at 25 at the side of the center plate 11. In order to permit adjustment of the support for different widths of window and also to maintain the proper tension upon the spring, each of the straps 22 and 24L are formed with apertures 26 by which :the spring 23 may be adjusted thereon to vary the length between the respective plates and determine the holding tension applied.

It will be noted from Figure 1 that the straps and spring connection between the center plate and end plates are deflected downwardly toward the sides of the window so as to exert a downward tension upon the center plate to retain it in proper position as well as an inward tension upon the end plates which secures a proper gripping relation of the teeth provided for holding purposes. The end plates are provided with bracket members 27 suitably apertured to receive a shaderoller 28 and formed with an elongated base 29 extending parallel to the plate 18 and embraced by the overturned flanges 30 from said plate. This provides a bearing which effectively prevents any side or twisting movement of the bracket in the downward pulling-tension upon the shade.

The invention has been described in connection with the form adapted for application to a double window and if applied to a single window as shown in Figure 3 the central supporting plate is omitted, as well as one of the springs, and the remaining spring connected between the two end plates. The construction of parts in this application is identical with those before described.

In the operation of the invention the support is adapted for convenient and ready application by simply separating the plates under tension and disposing them upon the window frame in proper relation so that they will be held in position by the tension ofthe springs, the teeth upon the respect-ive plates providing means by which they will be held in position while such tension may be adjusted to vary the relation of the plates or the retaining tension thereon. The pivotal connection of the strap with the plates permits the same to be disposed in different planes when desired and the holding tension applied jointly in a horizontal and vertical direction as in the application shown in Figure 1. i

The invention is particularly designed to provide a construction which can be economically manufactured from sheet material and the parts formed from single plates thereof by a stamping and cutting operation so as to secure rigidity in construction and efliciency in operation without great expense in manufacture.

The bracket members may be adjusted upon the plates in proper relation to the ends of the shade rollers and a slight pressure upon the securing flanges will retain the same in their adjusted position.

The specific construction of the support ing plates and holding brackets has been herein shown and described but changes and alterations may be made in the construction and configuration thereof without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the following claims.

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

1. In a window shade support, a central plate provided with an angular portion to engage the top of a window and with flanges at its lower portion, a member having paral' lel bracket flanges slidingly mounted be tween the plate flanges, straps pivoted at the opposite sides of said plate, end plates adapted to engage the sides of a window frame, bracket members slidably mounted thereon, straps pivoted upon said end plates, and coil springs extending downward from the straps upon the central plate to those upon the end plates.

2. A window shade support comprising a central plate secured to a window frame, opposite plates secured to the side edges of said frame, tension means extending downward from the sides of the central plate to the opposite side plates, a bracket member slidably mounted upon said central. plate, and cooperating bracket members slidably mounted upon the side plates.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

AUSTIN E. MYERS.

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