US424610A

US424610A - Cyefs bussey

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Publication number: US424610A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-04-01
Anticipated expiration: 1907-04-01

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0. W. LAURENCE GURTAIN POLE. No. 424, 10. Patented Apr. 1. 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

CHARLES \V. LAURENCE, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN-PO LE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,610, dated April 1, 1896.

Application filed October 19, 1889- Serial No. 327,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. LAURENCE, of the city, county, and State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ourtain-Poles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the poles usually used for supporting ourtains; and the object of my invention is to provide an attachment for wooden or metalcovered poles by which the same can be fast ened between the jambs of a window or door without requiring any fastening by means of screw or nails.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully set forth hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal View of my improved curtainpole, parts being broken out and others in section. Fig. 2 is an inner end View of a screw-socket. the pole provided with the screw-neck. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the end part of the pole, showing the cushion-disk.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The curtain-pole A is made of wood, in the usual manner, and may be covered with sheet metal or finished in any other suitable man ner. One end is placed int-o the sheet-metal socket B and rests against the outer end piece of the same. On the other end of the pole a flat ring 0 is secured, from which the externally-threaded neck D- projects. The socket E is provided on its outer end piece with an inwardly-proj ecting in tern ally-screwthreaded neck E, into which the neck I) on the end of the pole is screwed, and the pole is applied in the following manner: The neck D is screwed into the neck E a greater or less distance, one end of the pole is placed into the socket l3, and said socket placed against the wall. The pole is then held horizontally, and the socket E is held so that it cannot be turned, and the pole is then turned on its longitudinal axis, whereby the screw-neck D is screwed out of the neck E, and the pole is then lengthened.

As the pole is len thened the sockets ll and E are iressed Fig. 3 is a view of that end ofv against the jalnbs M and N of the window casin g with sufficient force or pressure to hold the pole in place and to support the curtain on said pole. There is no necessity of making any holes in the janib for screws or nails. If desired, the socket B may be provided 011 its upper end with an annular recess M, for receiving the thicker part N of a rubber or leather or felt packing-ring O, which is placed on the outer end of said socket and rested against the window-casing for the purpose of absolutely preventing the socket from defacing the casing.

A window-pole need not be of any special construction to adapt it to be used in the manner set forth, as the ring C, carrying the screw-neck D, can be secured on the end of any wooden pole. The pole can be removed just as easily as it can be put up.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to use a screw for lengthening or shortening rods and poles, and I do not claim this, broadly.

llavi n g thus described myinvention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a wooden curtain-pole, of a flatring fastened on one end of the same, an externallyscrew-threaded neck projecting from said ring, and a socket provided with an intcrnally-screw-threaded neck that. projects into the socket from the outer end piece of said socket, into which neck of the socket the neck on the end of the pole can be screwed, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a curtain-pole, of a screw-neck secured to and projecting from one end of the pole, a socket for receiving said end of the pole, which socket has an internally threaded neck projecting inward from its outer end, and an annular recess in its outer end and a cushion-ring placed on the outer end of the socket and having a thickened inner part which is placed into the recess in the outer end of the socket, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES \V. LAURENCE.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, J OHN A. STRALEY.

It is hereby certified that the name of the patenteein Letters Patent No. 424,610, granted April 1, 1890, for an improvement in Curtain-Poles, was erroneously Written and printed Charles W. Laurence, Whereas said name should have been Written and printed Charles W. Lmwence; and that said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 22d day of April, A. D. 1890.

CYRUS BUSSEY, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Oountersigned 0. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents.