US211343A - Improvement in curtain-roller and bracket - Google Patents

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W111. 1 11111582 E. 0. GLEASON. Curtain Roller and Bracket.

No. 211,343. Patent ed Jan. 14,1879.

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I IMPROVEMENT 'lN CURl'A'IN -ROLLER AND BRACKET.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 211,343, dated January 14, 1879; application filed l April 16,1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that WG,YWILLIAM H. PARK and EUGENE O. GLEASON, both of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massaehusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Curtain-Fixtures, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying draw- 1n gs.

Our invention relates to that class of ourtain-fixtures in which the curtain is raised by means of a cord, and is held at any desired point by a stop acting on the cord; and it consists in having, either on a fixed or swinging bracket, a roller on the spur, against which the cord bears, and in having a simply-constructed loop and stop for the cord, so formed that the cord may be easily removed therefrom.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view,showing acurtain-fixturehaving a swinging bracket and embodying our invention, and also showing a part of a window-casing. Fig. 2 is a Side view of the swinging bracket. Fig.

.3 is a side view of a fixed bracket which emof the roller is shown as a bracket of common form, receiving the stud b on the roller. At the other end of the roller is the cord-pulley D, on which winds the cord 0. We prefer to employ at this end a stud, d, fixed to the bracket for the roller to revolve on,and which enters the end of the cord-pulley or the roller.

The swinging bracket E is hung by a stud or screw, 6, which is fixed or screwed into the window-casing. This bracket has a slot, f, so that another stud or screw, g. which passes, through the slot and, is fixed or screwed into the casin g, further secures and guides the bracket.

The bracket Ehasa portion or arm, h, which projects inward toward the window, so that the proj ecting frame of the sash passing by the bracket will swing it-outof the way. i This is sometimes a very desirable feature of the fixture when it is necessary to hang the curtain inside the casin g. A blind, when being shut toward the curtain, may also strike some part ofthe bracket, as the loop G, and thus swing the bracket, and hence the curtain, out of the way. A fixed bracket, F, is used when the Swinging bracket is not needed, and is fastened to the casing by a screw, j. I

On either the swinging or the fixed brackets are the arms 7t and l. The arm 70 has a spur, m, and a roller, n, to run thereon. The

other arm, I, bears the loop and stop G.

The cord 0 passes from the pulley D to the rear and under the roller 1, then through the loop G, and may have a tassel at the lower end. This loop and stop G is made by formingor casting a projection,0,on the arm l, and forming therein on the inner side the groove 17. A piece of wire, having somewhat the clasticity of a spring, is formed or bent into such shape that, having one end, q, fastened in the arm I, the loop G will be formed, and the other end, 1", when free, will take the position shown in Fig. 7 but when pressed into the groove 19, the two ends of the wire will be brought so near together as to pinch the 'cord 0 pressed between them, thus forming a stop. When the cord 0 is pulled so as to draw it to the open part of the loop G, the curtain may be raised or lowered; but when the cord is dropped, its weight, or the weight of the tassel thereon, will cause the cord to enter the narrow part of the loop, where it will be held; and the loop being inclined, as shown, the greater the draft by the curtain, the firmer will the cord, and hence the curtain, be held.

By having the cord 0 bear against the roller a rather than against a fixed surface, the friction on the cord will be much less, and hence it will wear much longer time, and the value of the fixture is enhanced.

By constructing the loop and Stop G as described, the least expense in manufacture is gained, and the cord maybe removed from the loop without detaching one end from the pulley or the other end from the tassel.

' We make a groove in the roller lengthwise,

of sucha shape that on one side will be formed a shoulder, s, and the other side will be a wide, tapering, smooth, and curved surface, it. The upper end of the curtain is placed in this groove so that the edge will sit against the shoulder s, and the curtain is then fastened by tacks or similar fastenings, as shown. The utility of this groove is in that it is a guide for accurately fastening the curtain, and of this particular form of groove that the shoulder 8 protects the edge of the curtain from being roughed up; and the wide, tapering, smooth, and curved surface It prevents the curtain from being creased or broken, as it is liable to do over a sharp edge; and also that the uniformity and evenness of the roll formed by {336 curtain on the roller is the greatest possi- We claim as our invention- 1. A curtain-fixture bracket having a loop and stop, G, so formed of the wire and projection 0 that one end, r, of the wire may be sprung out to remove the cord a, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

2. A curtain-fixture bracket having the two arms 70 and I, one of which has the spur m and the roller n, and the other a loop and stop, Gr,

WILLIAM H. PARK. EUGENE O. GLEASON.

Witnesses Enw. DUMMER, LAURENCE K. MUNN.

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