US282846A

US282846A - Curtain-fixture

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Publication number: US282846A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-08-07
Anticipated expiration: 1900-08-07

Description

(No Model.)

A. COLE.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

No. 282,846. Patented Aug. '7, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CURTAIN- FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,846, dated August 7, 1883.

Application filed November 23, 1882. (No model.) -7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known. that I, AARONCOLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fillmore, in the county of Andrew and State of Missouri, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Ourtain-Fixtures5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

. clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being IO had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention in a perspective view. Figs.

I 5 2 and 3 are perspective detail views, showing a base-plate with a series of bearings and one with single bearings. Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective detail views of the different bracketarms. Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9 show sectional views of the invention.

This invention has relation to curtain-fixtures; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the .2 5 appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the window casing or frame to which the fixtures are to be applied.

B indicates the base-plate of the bracket,

which is formed with one or more dovetail bearings, 0, these bearings consisting of laterally-arranged lugs D, having inclined inner walls. The inclination of the inner walls of these lugs is vertical as well as lateral, the

5 dovetail bearingtapering downward. Usually these base-plates are formed with a series of these bearings arranged vertically one above another, to provide for a vertical adjustment of the curtain-roller.

E designates the arm of the bracket, the

lower portion of which is turned backward, and is made in dovetail form from front to rear and tapers downward, being designed to fit the bearing or bearings of the base-platehereinbefore described.

of brackets is usually providedwith a perfo ration, H, at ashort distance from the journalaperture G, as indicated in the drawings.

The base-plates B are provided with countersunk perforations K for the passage of screws,i

whereby said plates are secured-to the casing.

Instead of having aseries of dovetail bearings formed on one plate, a series of plates may be arranged one above another, each plate having a single bearing. This separate arrangement of the base-plates is often preferable, as it enables the owner to regulate the intervals between them to suit the adjustment of the curtain-roller desired by him. The bracket-' justable bracket-arms the curtain and rolling,

shade will be carried together whenever an adjustment is made.

The roller R is provided with journals or journal-plates in the usual manner, except that when a spring-roller is desired the j ournal at one end of the roller is made of sufficient length to extend through a spring cap orbox, N, in which is coiled aspring, S, one end of which is attached to said cap or box, while its other end is secured to the journal. A

stud, z, on the outside of the box N projects sufficiently to engage the'perforation H of the arm of the bracket when the journal is seated in the bearing-aperture G thereof. By this construction the spring is enabled to be un wound on the journal and the arm of the fixture connected to holdit in the unwound position before the arm is placed in position in the bearing of the base-plate. When the spring is in the unwound position referred to, the curtain is rolled up. As the curtain is pulled down the spring is wound up, so that it acts automatically to raise the curtain when this is desired.

The arms E may be laterally turned from the end connection, F, if it is desired to have \Vhen the upper sash is pulled down, the

roller an d curtain, with the arms of the bracket, I 00 are detached from the upper bearings, O, and spring-box, the base-plate B of the curtainare connected to bearings belowthe level of the upper edge of said sash, thereby providing free passage for the wind above the sash, and at the same time removing the curtain to a position where it will not be blown about.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. A curtain-roller bracket consisting of a base-plate or base-plates having a vertical series of dovetail bearings, and a detachable bracket-arm, E, having its lower end turned backward, and of dovetail form to engage the dovetail bearings, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the spring and spring-box N and the journal of the curtainroller, of the stud z on the outside of the fixture, and the detachable bracket-arm E, 20

having the bearing-aperture G for the journal, and the perforation H for the stud of the spring-box, substantially as specified.

8. A curtain-roller bracket consisting of a base-plate having a series of bearings, B, an 2 5 ranged one above another, and a detachable. andvertically-adj ustable ar1n,E, having a 3' ournal-bearing, G, and a boss-headed stud, L, at its upper end, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have 30 hereunto subscribed my name in the'p'resence