US2080270A

US2080270A - Ornamental support for draperies

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Publication number: US2080270A
Application number: US57409A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles P Henry
Original assignee: JAMES N HENRY
Current assignee: JAMES N HENRY
Priority date: 1936-01-03
Filing date: 1936-01-03
Publication date: 1937-05-11
Anticipated expiration: 1954-05-11

Description

May 11, 1937. c. P. HENRY 2,080,270

ORNAMENTAL SUPPORT FOR DRAPERIES Filed Jan. 3, 1936 Patented May 11, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Charles P. Henry, Cranston, R. L, assignor to James N. Henry, Providence, R. I.

Application January 3, 1936, Serial No. 57,409

6 Claims.

My invention relates to drapery supports including rods, both sectional and non-sectional, and terminately curved or uncurved, struck up from thin metal comprising elongated webs or body portions provided with opposed lateral transversely U-shaped flanges.

The above type of rod, because of the required presence of the continuous lateral flanges has afforded a relatively small resultant areafor surface ornamentation, particularly transversely of the web or body portion, and thus such 'rods have heretofore not been available where the room decoration has required an ornate or elaborate type of ornamentation.

One object of the present invention is to overcome the recited disadvantage.

A further object is to effect this end by an auxiliary ornament attachable to the curtain rod.

An additional object is to enable the employment of a cast ornament in conjunction with a stamped curtain rod, whereby elaborateness of design in the auxiliary ornament is permitted, and at a minimum of expense.

And finally to provide a simple, secure, and easily operable means for interengaging the rod and ornament.

To the above ends primarily my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the curtain rod portion of my invention,

Figure 2, a section of the same on line 2-2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3, a front elevation of the ornament portion of my invention detached from the rod portion,

Figure 4, a, fragmentary front elevation of the complete drapery support, the parts being shown interengaged,

Figures 5 and 6, a plan and rear elevation respectively of the same,

Figure 7, a section of the same on line 1-1 of Figure 4,

Figure 8, a similar enlarged section showing the curtain rod portion in difierent positions of engagement relatively to the ornament portion,

Figure 9, a perspective View of a sectional curtain rod portion of my invention, and

Figure 10, a section similar to that of Figure '7 of a modified form of my support taken on a line corresponding to l0*-l0 of Figure 9.

Similar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the views.

My support, as herein shown, includes a nonsectional struck curtain rod portion 13 of channel shaped cross section, comprising a vertical web, 5 strip, or body l5 and longitudinally disposed inturned lateral flanges l1, transversely U-shaped, and transversely resilient or yielding.

My support includes also a cast ornament portion l8 consisting of a strip or body IS with a design 20 formed upon its front face and with a smooth back. The strip is provided midway its length with a vertically disposed opening 22 extending from its lower edge to an intermediate portion of the strip, and the portions 24 of the body at each side of the opening are severally tapering towards their ends and in this instance each provided with intermediate forwardly and rearwardly directed reverse swells 26 and 21 respectively.

Cast integral with the strip midway its length and adjacent the upper end of the opening 22 is a rearwardly offset depending finger 29 comprising an offset portion 30 and shank portion 3|. The front of the shank has a rounded shoulder 33 intermediate its length. The lower portion 34 of the shoulder is gradually inclined, and the upper portion 35 is substantially horizontal, imparting to the whole the character of a fixed cam. The distance between the apex of the shoulder 33 and the plane of the adjacent rear face of the body is less than the extent of the overhang of the rod flanges I'l.

At each side of the offset portion of the finger the rear face of the body is cast with projections 31 in longitudinal alignment with each other.

In assembling, the ornament and curtain rod are moved edgewise towards each other, so that the higher of the two flanges ll rides upwardly over upon the inclined portion of the shoulder 33 thereby gradually compressing the flange, as shown in broken lines in Figure 8, until the latter snaps over the apex of the shoulder 33 and expands so that its lower edge engages the finger and the upper portion 35 of the shoulder, and the lower flange abuts against the finger adjacent to or against the lower portion of the shoulder. The top of the upper flange is adjacent the offset portion of the finger, and any accidental tilt of the rod isprevented by the projections 31 against which the top of the upper flange abuts when the assemblage of the ornament with the rod is completed.

The ornament is thus secured against accidental disengagement from the curtain rod, and because of its cast character the former is capable of receiving elaborate ornamentation and at small cost. The construction and arrangement of the parts of both the ornament and rod are such as to make the assemblage operation facile and instantaneous.

In Figure 10 is shown the assemblage of the ornament it! with a curtain rod of the section type shown in Figure 9 wherein one section 39 of the rod 40 telescopes within a like section 4|, with their respective flanges 42 and Q3 in overlapping contact.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, an ornament for a curtain rod having a body, a rearwardly offset depending finger upon the body, and a projection upon the front of the finger extending towards the body.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an ornament for a curtain rod comprising a body provided with an intermediate opening extending upwardly from the lower edge of the body, a rearwardly oifset depending finger integral with the body at the top of the opening, a projection upon the front of the finger intermediate its length, and horizontally disposed portions integral with the back of the body and positioned upon opposite sides of the finger.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an ornament for a curtain rod having a body, a depending finger upon the body and offset from the body, and a projection upon the finger extending towards the body.

4. As a new article of manufacture, an ornament for a curtain rod comprising a body provided with an intermediate opening extending from the edge of the body, an offset finger integral with the body adjacent the opening, a projection upon the finger extending towards the opening, and horizontally disposed portions integral with the body upon opposite sides of the finger.

5. As a new article of manufacture, an ornament for a curtain rod comprising a body, a rearwardly offset depending finger integral with the body, projections upon the body in longitudinal alignment with each other disposed upon opposite sides of the finger, and a projection upon the finger.

6. As a new article of manufacture, an ornament for a curtain rod comprising a body provided with an intermediate opening extending from the edge of the body, an ofi'set finger upon the body adjacent the opening, and a projection upon the finger extending towards the opening.

CHARLES P. HENRY.