US661876A - Curtain-fixture. - Google Patents

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No. 66|,87s. Patented Novi lsflsoo. P. s, JAcuus.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

(Application led Feb. 19, 1900.)

(No Medel.)

W/TNESSES UNrTnD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS B. JACOBUS, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF 'lO JOHN MARSOH, OF SAME PLACE.

CURTAIN-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,876, dated November 13, 1900. mutation tied Femm 19, 1900. semi No. 5,723. No model.)

To al?, whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS B. J AooBUs, a citizen ofthe United St-ates, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Curtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description.

One purpose of the invention is to so construct curtain-xtures that when applied to the window frame or casing and a curtain is i suspended from the bracket an unobstructed space for the free circulation of air is obtained at the upper portion of the window between the curtain roller and the windowframe, enabling a person to draw down the curtain and lower the top sash, thus allowing ample ventilation at the upper portion of the room without necessarily admitting much light.

Another object of the invention is to provide a means for holding a curtain close to the Window-frame or in proper relation to it, although a large space may intervene the curtain-roller and the window frame or casing.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the window frame or casing and the improved fixture applied thereto, and

Fig. 2is a vertical central section through the parts shown in Fig. 1.

A represents a window frame or casing, and B brackets, which may be secured to the Window-casing in the customary or in any approved manner. These brackets are imperforate, and provided-preferably, with a vertical straight edge adapted to engage with the window-frame, a straight upper or horizontal edge, and an inclined front edge, the front edge at the bottom of the bracket meeting the rear edge. Thus it will be observed that the bracket is considerably wider at the top than at the bottom, and the Width of the bracket at the top is such that the upper por= tion of the forward edge of the bracket will be removed quite a distance from the window-frame, and in this portion of the brackets the usual opening 10 is made in one bracket to receive the round trunnion 11 of the roller O, while in the corresponding portion of the opposing bracket the ordinary slot is produced, in which the square or polygonal trunnion ot' the said roller C is adapted to enter.

The brackets differ from others of their kind not only in that they are wider, but also in that a roller 13 extends from the bottom of one bracket to the bottom portion of the opposing bracket. Under this construction when a shade-roller C is placed in position in the brackets quite a space 16 intervenes the outer face of the roller and the opposing surface of the window-frame, thus permitting a copious and free circulation of air at the upper portion of the room whether the shade 14 be drawn down or not, provided that the upper sash is lowered to a slight extent. The side edges of the shade 14 lie close to the in- -ner faces of the brackets B, and thereby form (the shade below the carrying-roller O in the usual engagement with or relation to the window-frame as the shade 14 is passed down between the guide-roller 13 and the frame A of the window. The bottom stick 15 usually placed in curtains vwilleffectuallyprevent the bottom portion of the shade 14 from reaching the roller C, and thus the shade cannot completely wind up on the roller, as the guideroller 13 beneath the spring-ca rrying roller of the shade serves as a check and prevents the lower portion of the shade from passing by it when the bottom stick 15 is in place.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A curtain-fixture, comprising two approximately triangular imperforate brackets having vertical rear edges and horizontal top E Y y 661.876

edges, the brackets being provided at the at the topof'thewindoworthe prposespeciouter ends of the top edges with bearings, a vfied.. curtain-roller mounted in such bearings and In testimony whereof I have signed my heid by the brackets out of proximity With name to this specification in the presence of 5 the Window, a guide device carried by the two subscribing Witnesses.

lower portions of the brackets and extending between them and a curtain Wound over the l FRANCIS B JAOOBUS' roller and passed behind the guide device, the Witnesses: side edges of the curtain lying close to the in- WILLIAM ELLAlvI,

lo ner faces of the brackets to form an inclosure GEORGE C. L. MAS.

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