US1669593A - Curtain fixture - Google Patents

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May 15, 1928. 1,669,593

H. T. BARNWELL CURTAIN FIXTURE Filed Nov. 12, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 May 15. 1928.

1,669,593 H. T. BARNWELL CURTAIN FIXTURE Filed Nov. 12, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented May 15, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY T. BARNWELL, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMIENTS, TO i THE 'NEWELL MFG. CO., INC., OF OGDEIN'SBURG, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

Application filed November 12, 1926. Serial No. 148,084.

The present invention relates to curtain rods and brackets, and has for its object to provide means for interengaging the rod and bracket, so that the rod, while readily removable from the bracket, will not be liable to accidental displacement, and, furthermore, the rods and brackets may be assembled with each rod equipped with the necessary brackets, and sold in this assembled condition, instead of being separately sold, as is customary, and afterwards assembled by the purchaser. This provision for selling the rods and brackets in assembled condition eliminates the possibility of the r set not being complete, which frequently happens where the brackets and rods are sold in disassembled condition.

Briefly, the invention consists in providing the rod supporting pins of the brackets and the rods which engage these pins when the lixture is assembled or put up, with interengaging means which will hold the parts in proper relation and prevent accidental disengagement, but which, when it is desired to separate the brackets and rods, will permit them to be readily separated. I have shown several forms of interengaging means, and it will be observed that in all these forms, the very usual types of rods and brackets are used, without the necessity oi cutting the rod or shaping the pins in any peculiar fashion, but I have simply imposed on the stock articles now in use, my improvement, without in any way changing the general character or make-up of rod or bracket.

In the drawings which accompany and form a part of this application, I have illustrated several embodiments of my invention, and in said drawings Figure l is a perspective view of so much of a rod and brackets as is necessary to a disclosure of the invention.

Figure 2 is a view of a bracket.

Figure 3 is a cross section longitudinally of the rod, with the bracket in place.

Figure l is a transverse section, showing relation of rod and pin.

Figure 5 is an enlarged view, showing the inter-engaging means.

Figure 6 shows a bracket, with the recess in the form of an annular groove.

Figures 7 and 8 are views of a double bracket embodying the invention.

Figure 9 is a view, partly in section, showing a different form of bracket to which my invention is applied.

Figure 10 is a view of the bracket of Figure Figure 11 is a view of a rod adapted for use wit-h the form of bracket shown in Figure 10.

Referring to the drawings by numbers, like numbers indicating like parts in the several views, 10 indicates a curtain rod of the usual fiat telescoping type. The ends of the rod. are bent in the form here shown at right angles to the body, and the flanges of these bent ends are provided with the usual apertures 11. These apertures 11 are engaged by the pin member 12 of the bracket 13 in the usual manner, this fiat rod and the bracket, with its supporting pin, being old and well known typesoi rod and bracket.

' As usually constructed, the apertured flanges engage loosely the bracket pins, and there is always danger oi accidental dis placement of the rod when the fixture is in place, and, furthermore, the brackets and rods cannot be sold in assembled condition, for there is no interengaging means to hold the brackets and rods in proper, assembly.

In order to interlock the parts, I have shown in Figure 1 one form of the invention, wherein the bracket pin 12 is provided with a recess 14., placed, as shown, substantiallymidway the length of the bracket and intended to be engaged by a projection 15 on the body portion 16 of the rod. The recess in the bracket pin and the projection on the body portion of the rod may be variously formed. In Figure 1, I have shown the re: cess 14 at one side, so that when the parts are interengaged with the projection 15 in the recess 1%, the rod and bracket will be held against relative sliding movement, and

also against relative rotating movement, so that they will be held always in proper rela-' tion.

In order that the brackets may be used as rights and lel'ts, and so interchangeable from one side of the window to the other, there may be provided also a similar recess on the opposite side of the pin 12, so that one or the other of the recesses, depending on whether the bracket is used as a right or left, will be engaged by the projection on the rod.

The projection 15 may be formed in dif of an annular depression 17, which com pletely encircles the pin, so that no matter what the relative positions of the rod and the pin may be, the projection 18onthe body portion of the rod will alwaysengage the annular recess 17. In this form, the ii-iterengaging means prevent, relativesliding movements of the rod and bracket, but do not, of course, prevent relative rotating movements, as in the form shown Figure 1.

In the formshown in Figure 10, the invention is applied to another well known type of bracket. and rod, the bracket there shown being provided with a rod supporting pin 1r9,"\vhich is non-circular in cross section,

it being here shown of rectangular cross section. This type of pin engages the apertured flanges, which are provided with apertures 20, corresponding in shape to the cross section of the pin, and efiectua-lly prevent turning or relative rotation of the rod and bracket. The rod supporting pin 19 in this formwi'tl be provided with a recess on each side, and, preferably, I form this recess by -making an aperture 21, here shown as a round aperture, in the pin, so that the bracket may be used as a right or left. The body portion of the rod in this form of the invention will be provided witha proj'eo tion 22, so shaped asto engage the recess formed by thehole 521, and hold the parts together. a

The rods are formed of a resilient metal, and the body portion ofthe rod is yieldable, so that as the rods are slipped over the pins, the projections will resiliently engage the pins untilthey reach the pin recess, and will then snap intothe recess and hold the parts with a resilient look. This will be sufiicient to guard against accidental displacement, bnt will readily yield to permit separation when it is desired to disassemble the rods and brackets.

By locating the interenga-ging parts sub- "stantially midway of the bracket pin and the body portion of the rod, I am enabled to get a proper and balanced relation of the parts, and do away with any special cutting or shaping oi the flanges which has been proposed, and, furthermore, my invention does not necessitate any special shaping or forming of the bracket pin, it being necessary only to take stock types of pins now in use,and", by a simple mechanical operation, impose the recesses on such p ns.

WVhile I' have shown several forms in which my invention may be carried out, it will be understood that any adaptations, other than those specifically disclosed, and which are mere mechanical variations at my in-iprovement, may be; made without departing from the spirit of myinvention.

Iclaiin:

1. The combination of a curtain rod having a body portion and vertically apertured predetermined position 2. The combination of a curtain rod havflange mem'ers, a bracket having a rot-ll rcceiving pin to engage said apertured flange members, and complementary mterengagmg means on said bracket and pin and disposed between said apertured flanged members tohold normally: the rod in fixed position on the pin. l i

4;. The combination (iii a curtain rod having a body portion and vertical liy apertured' flange members, a bracket having a rod re ceiving pin to engage said aperture flange members, said pin having recess, and a projection on the body portion of said rod to engage; said recess, said recess and pro- "ecti onb ing disposethbetween said apertured flange; members and arranged to hold normally the rod in a lined position on said: pin. a a i 5. In combination, a curtain rod having substantially verticallyaligned openings adjacent the endsthereot, a bracket. having a rod receiving pin to engage said openings, and complementary yieldlable engaging means on said braeket and pin: disposed: between said openings and coacting witlteach: other to holdthe rodi normality in fixed position on said pin.

In testimony Whereofi I; have hereunto set my hand. i

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