US655089A

US655089A - Shade-roller bracket.

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Publication number: US655089A
Application number: US73075599A
Authority: US
Inventors: William E Kearney
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-09-16
Filing date: 1899-09-16
Publication date: 1900-07-31
Anticipated expiration: 1917-07-31

Description

. No. 655,089. Patented July 3|, I900. W. E, KEARNEY.

SHADE Ifll l-LLEB BRACKET.

(Application filed Sept. 16, 1899.) (No Model.)

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\VILLIAM E. KEARNEY, OF SHAMOKIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHADE=ROLLER BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,089, dated July 31, 1900.

Apnoea filed $eptember 16, 1899. Serial No. 730,756. (No model.)

T 00% whom it may oo'nce'ifma .Be it known that I, W ILLIAM E. KEARNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shamokin, in the county of N orthumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a'new and useful Shade-Roller Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shade-roller hangers, and has for its object to provide a simple and improved device of this character which is designed for application to a window-frame or other support and also being adjustable to accommodate the device to shade-rollers of different lengths. It is furthermore designed to employ the fastenings which secure the device to a support as means for adj usting the opposite shade-roller brackets and also for taking up wear, so as to insure a comparatively-rigid device.

With these and other objects in View the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be here inafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of a window-frame having the improved shade-roller hanger applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the device detached and looking at the rear side thereof.

Corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings are designated by like characters of reference.

Referring particularly to Fig. 2 of the drawings, it will be seen that the present device comprises a sheath or casin g 2,which is formed from a single blank of sheet metal and having the opposite longitudinal spring-flanges 5, which extend inwardly in opposite directions across the rear side of the sheath. At each of that of the flange.

'dicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

nals of the shade-roller.

with a perforation for the reception of a suitable fastening device, whereby the sheath may be secured to the window-frame 1, as in- A perforation 4 is formed in the sheath at a point substantially midway between the opposite ends thereof for the reception of a fastening to aid in securing the sheath to the windowframe.

Located at opposite ends of the sheath are the respective roller-bracket slides S and 9, which have their inner ends slidably embraced .by the flanges 5, and their outer ends project outwardly beyond the respective ends of the sheath and are provided with the respective roller-brackets 10, one of which has the usual circular opening 11 and the other a catch-slot 12 to receive the respective jour- The outer faces of these slides are provided with oppositely-dis posed scales 9 to cooperate with the adjacent ends of the sheath, so as to properly adjust the bracket-slides when the length of the shadetenings which pass through the attaching-ears 6 and into the support. As the flanges are in a plane beyond that of theattaching-ears,

the flanges will engage the support in ad Vance of the ears to insure a positive binding of the flanges upon the slides, and when it becomes necessary to take up wear the fastenings are set farther into the support to bind the flanges more firmly upon the slides, thereby to afiord an adjustment for taking up wear and to insure a comparativelyrigid device; also, the fastening -which passes through the intermediate perforation at in the sheath draws the latter inwardly, so as to form an indentation, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1, so as to form stops for limiting the inward movement of the bracket-slides and to form an additionalfrictional engagement between the sheath and the slides. Y

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- I 1. Ashadeioll er hanger, compri'sing'opposite roller-bracket slides, a sheet metal sheath, having opposite inwardly-directed longitudinal spring-flanges located upon the rear" dinal spring-flanges located upon the rear side of the sheath, the opposite ends of each flange being bent outwardly into attachingears, which are disposed in advance of the adjacent flanges, and provided with perforations, and fastenings received through the perforations in the attaching-ears, for securing the sheath to a support, and to force the spring-flanges against the support and into adjustable frictional engagement with the slides. In testimony that I claim the foregoing'as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

1 WILLIAM E. KEARNEY. V Witnesses:

W. A. OOULsTON, J. J. REGNEY.