US2371232A

US2371232A - Combination curtain

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Publication number: US2371232A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1945-03-13
Anticipated expiration: 1962-03-13

Description

Marcfi 1 1945- c. M. EDGINGTON COMBINATION CURTAIN, SHADE AND DRAPERY FIXTURE Filed July 18, 1944 2 T \i l I 6/ j /0 k) 5 game/rm Patented Mar. 13, 1945 COIVIBINATION CURTAIN, SHADE, AND DRAPERY FIXTURE- Clay M. Edgington, Roseville, Mich, assignor of ten per cent toJ. E. Obenauer, Roseville, Mich.

Application July 18, 1944, Serial No. 545,436

2 Claims.

This invention relates to fixtures especially adapted for the support, of ,shades, curtains, draperies and the like, containing a minimum amount of material and involving but little expause in the manufacture thereof.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a device of the above stated character which will eliminate theuse of nails, screws or like fasteners in the mounting thereof and may be easily and quickly installed through the use of a hammer or like tool and may be manufactured by a single stamping operation, thereby domesticor home use at a nominal cost.

With these and other objects in view as will become more apparent as the description proproviding a device which will emciently fulfill ceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described andclaimed.

For a. complete understanding of my invenpairs for the support of a drapery pole 6, ourtain rod 1 and a shade roller (not shown). Each fixture is similarly constructed except one of the fixtures will be provided with a slot 8 opening outwardly through its upper edge to receive one end of a shade roller while the companion fixture will be provided with an aperture 9 to receive the other end of the shade roller.

Each fixture consists of an elongated fiat metallic body it, one end of which is bifurcated to form prongs tapering toward their free ends so that said prongs will readily penetrate wooden window trim when the opposite end of the body is struck a hammer blow. The latter-named end of the body is provided with a substantially key-hole shaped slot 12 opening outwardly of said end so that a drapery pole may readily enter said slot l2 and come to rest within the substantially circular shaped portion thereof and thus be prevented from accidentally moving or slipping out of the slot l2. The width of the latter-named end of the body I0 is such as to readily slip in, with a frictional fit, the end of a curtain rod 1 of a conventional construction.

By referring to Figure 2 itwill be seen that the slot 12 will be closed at its open end when the curtain rod is adapted to the fixture acting to prevent movement of the drapery pole out of said slot. l2 in the direction of its open end.

The body being of the construction and shape shown in Figure 3 of the drawing may be easily struck from a metallic blank in a single stamping operation, consequently permitting the entire fixture to be manufactured at a low cost.

In use, companion fixtures are driven into the woodwork of a window frame by striking said fixtures hammer blows on the ends thereof which have the slots l2 opening outwardly thereof. The fixtures being thus secured to the window frame eliminates the use of screws and like fasteners and permits anyone unskilled in the art to readily install the-fixtures. Further, it will be seen that the shade roller of a conventional construction can be easily installed on the fixtures by having the ends of the shade roller positioned in the slot 8 nd opening 9. A pole and a rod may then be conveniently placed in position on the fixtures, the pole being prevented from moving outwardly of the open ends of the slots l2 by the curtain rod owing to the fact that the ends of the curtain rod telescope over the ends of the fixtures to close the open ends of the slots l2 and retain the pole in the substantially circular portions of the slots l2.

The prongs ll may be serrated as shown in the drawing to prevent the prongs ll from'a'cci dently pulling out from the woodwork of the window frame.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that minor changes in construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventionas claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. In a fixture, an elongated flat body having one end bifurcated to provide penetrating prongs and having a substantially key-hole shaped slot opening outwardly through its other end to receive a pole, said latter-named end of the body providing a strike face to receive a hammer blow and to enter a curtain rod with a frictional fit to permit said curtain rod to close the slot to prevent accidental displacement of the pole therefrom.

2. In a. fixture, an elongated fiat body of plain rectangular form in its major outer portion and having a tapered inner portion pronged at the end for penetration into woodwork, the major outer portion being provided with a longitudinal slot opening outwardly at the end thereof to receive a pole, said slotted end of the body pro-- viding a. pair of transversely aligned strike faces to receive a hammer blow and adapted to enter a curtain rod with a frictional fit so as to retain the pole in the slot, the body having an opening between its pronged end and said longitudinally slotted portion to receive and support the end of a conventional shade roller.

CLAY M. EDGINGTON.