US2224012A - Window curtain supporter - Google Patents

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Dec. 3, 1 940.

P. BRODBECK WINDOW CURTAIN SUPPORTER Filed April 1, 1940 INVENTOR PauZBrocZeck 7 ATITO EY Patented Dec. 3, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WINDOW CURTAIN sumo-area Paul Brodbeck, New York, N. Y.

Application April 1, 1940, Serial No. 327,121

1 Claim.

This invention relates to devices intended for supporting the horizontal sustaining rods for ourtains and drapes in such manner that said rods and suspended curtaining may be lowered by a person standing on the floor to a working elevation for removing and remounting of the rods and curtaining, and to restore the rods and ourtaining to operative elevated condition, without necessitating standing up on stools or climbing of step ladders for reaching up to the tops of windows, which efiorts are arduous and often dangerous to members of households.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a device for the above purpose which will be conveniently, readily, and economically manufacturable, salable at low cost, conveniently and readily utilizable, light, strong, durable, eificient, and which will not mar the window frame or curtaining.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a general front elevation showing the window curtaining supporter of the invention in a greatly reduced scale, with the device illustrated as it appears when in operative position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the supporter shown in Fig. 1, but illustrating it as it appears when dropped for manipulation.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of the supporting device, in an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is an actual size front elevation of the lower hinging fitting of the device.

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the fitting shown in Fig. 4, taken on line 5--5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is an actual size front elevation of the upper terminal and locking fitting of the supporting device.

Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the terminal and fitting shown in Fig. 6, taken on the line 'l-! of Fig. 6, and illustrating these parts as they appear when in automatically interlocked state.

To each side of the window frame I is secured a fitting 2, at an elevation conveniently reachable by the user when standing on the fioor, and said fitting, Figs. 4, 5, comprises a rear Wall 3 having holes 4 for fastening screws 5, side walls 6, a front wall 1, and a pintle 8 riveted to the side walls 6. Directly above each of the fittingsZ is secured a fitting 9 to the window frame I, at an elevation required for the operative location of the curtain and drape rods l0, Fig. 3, the fitting 9, Figs. 6, '7, comprising a rear wall H having holes 12 for fastening screws l3, side Walls l4, and an upstanding hook l5, preferably formed by stamping out a portion of the rear wall II, as shown in Fig. '7.

The rods I 9 are mountable on and demountable from, in customary manner, a pair of pins l6 welded to each terminal of vertical rods H, as shown in Fig. 3. Each rod I1 is channeled in cross-sectional configuration, having a front wall l8 to which the pins l6 are welded at 19, Fig. 7, and side walls 20, the ends of which are longitudinally guidable by the walls of fittings 2 and 9. The lower end of rod I1 is provided with vertical slots 21 in its walls 20, through which passes the pintle 8 of fitting 2, whereby the rod is vertically slidable in this fitting and in its complementary fitting 9 to a stroke governed by the length of said slots. When the rod I1 is slid upwardly, the lower extremities of its slots 2| engage the pintle 8 and the rod becomes swingable about said pintle as a hinge, from its normal vertical position indicated in dash-and-dot lines in Fig. 2 to the dropped position illustrated. The upper terminal of the rod I1 is provided with an inverted hook 22, preferably formed of a bent extension of the front wall ill of the rod, Fig. 7. When the rod I1 is swung backwardly to normal vertical position, and then permitted to slide downwardly, its inverted hook 22 drops into the upstanding hook I5 of complementary fitting 9 and thereby interlocks the terminal of the rod with the fitting, in the manner shown in Fig. '7, with the upper extremities of the slots 2| in engagement with the pintle 8 of fitting 2. When the rods H are in their dropped position illustrated in Fig. 2', their front walls l8 abut against the upper edge 23 of front wall 1 of fitting 2, in which manner the drop is arrested and the rods are maintained in their lowered position.

In installing the supporter, it merely requires appropriate location of the fittings 2, 9 upon the window frame, and securing them with the screws 5, [3. When it is desired to hang the curtaining upon the window equipped with this device, the curtains 24 are strung upon the rods ID in the usual manner, and the latter are thus prepared to be mounted upon the pins [6. The vertical rods I! are then slid upwardly, to disengage the hooks 22, i5, and the rods are swung downwardly to their lowered state, thereby bringing their upper terminals and pins Hi to reachable elevation, whereupon the rods It] are mounted over the pins [6 in usual manner. The rods l1 may be then swung backwardly to their normal vertical position and let slide downwardly, to lockingly reengage the hooks 22, i", to complete the suspension of the curtains and drapes 24, which may be thereafter as readily and conveniently removed and renewed by merely reversing the foregoing steps, and without requiring any resort to getting up on stools or ladders, or subjecting to any danger.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used Without others.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A window curtain supporter having the combination of a pair of vertical rods for the sides of a window frame, each of the upper terminals of said rods carrying means for thereon mounting a curtain rod, a lower fitting for each of said.

rods being securable to the window frame at manually reachable elevation, the lower terminals of said rods being hinged to said fittings to swing the rods from vertical to dropped positions, an upper fitting for the upper end of each of said rods being securable to the window frame, said hinging comprising vertical slots and pintles for said rods and lower fittings to permit said rods to slide longitudinally vertically in said upper and lower fittings, and said upper fitting and terminals having complementary hooks to engage each other when said rods are slid downwardly and disengage from each other when said rods are slid upwardly. PAUL BRODBECK.

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