US682097A - Curtain-fixture and pole-bracket. - Google Patents

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No. 682,097. Patented Sept. 3, I90l'. A. s. LUNDBERG.

CURTAIN FIXTURE AND POLE BRACKET.

(Application filed Apr. 18, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLF S. LUNDBERG, OF WEST EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

CU RTAlN-FIXTU RE AND POLE-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,097, dated September 3, 1901.

Application filed April 18, 1901. .Serial No. 56,369. (No modeLl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLF S. LUNDBERG, a citizen of Sweden, residing at West Everett, in the-county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Fixtures and Pole- Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in curtain-fixtures and pole-brackets; and it has for its object to longitudinally adjust the curtain-fixture brackets to and from each other according to the width of the curtain and length of the curtain-roll without the need of securing such brackets directly to the window-casing.

In houses and rooms where tenants are likely to move frequently it is the usual practice to secure brackets to the window-casing from time to time as new tenants arrive and move, and this has a tendency to mar the windowcasing.

The object of my invention is to avoid such securing of the brackets to the window-casing, and this I accomplish by securing once for all a pair of frames to such window-casing, said frames being provided with brackets capable of being adjustable in said frames according to the length of the curtain-roll, as

will hereinafter be more fully shown and described, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, Wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention shown as applied to a window-casing. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a detail front elevation of one of the metal frames and the curtain-bracket longitudinally adjustable thereon. Fig. 4 is a rear view of Fig. 2., Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross-section on the line 5 5, shown in Fig. at; and Fig. 6 is a similar crosssection on the line 6 6, also shown in Fig. 4.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

A in Fig. 1 represents a window frame or casing, as usual, and t0 the ends of such I secure my improved device, which is made in pairs, as shown, each member of the pair consisting of a hollow metal frame B, secured in an adjustable manner to the window-casing by means of screws 0 0 going through slotted perforations D D in the base of each of the metal frames B, as shown. Each frame B has on its under side a tapering longitudinal recess E, in the front portion of which is a slot F, as shown. In said recess is located a longitudinally-adj ustable tapering clam pingblock G, to which is permanently secured a shank H, projecting through the slotted perforation F, as shown in Fig. 5. The said shank is screw-threaded at h and provided with an adjustable nut I, which when turned toward the right causes the block G to be clamped firmly against the under side of the frame B, as shown in Fig. 5. In one piece with the shank H is made a bracket H, provided in its outer end with a notch or sloth for receiving one end of the spindle of the curtain-roller. The other bracket on the opposite frame is provided with a circular perforation, as is common in curtain-fixture devices. If it is desired to adjust the position of the bracket H according to the length of the curtain-roller, it is only necessary to turn the nut I slightly toward the left sufficiently to loosen the grip of the block G against the recess E in the frame B, after which the said block may be adjusted in a horizontal direction in the frame B, and after it has been so adjusted it can be quickly secured in the desired position relative to said frame B simply by tightening the nut I, as hereinabove described. In practice I make at one end of the recess E an internal enlargement or cutaway portion e 6, (shown in Fig. 4,) so as to enable the block G after being inserted through the slot F to be turned around a quarter of a revolution, so as to cause it to assume the locked position shown in Figs. 2, 4, and 5. In practice I prefer to secure to each frame B a metal wire-pole holder K, adapted to support a drapery-holding pole L, as shown. it is the shank of said pole-holder, and its lower end is inserted through perforations 12 bin the base of the frame B, as shown in the drawings.

In setting up shade-rollers the brackets H H are adjusted relative to the frames B B, as above described, and if still further adjustment should be needed this can readily be done byadj usting the positions of the frames B B relative to the window frame or casing as occasions may require.

The invention is very simple in construction, is easy of operation, and will save a great deal of labor in putting up and taking down shade-rollers as parties are moving to and from tenements, houses, and rooms.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is The herein-described adjustable curtainfixture device, consisting in combination of a pair of frames B, B, adjustably secured to the window-casing, each such frame having a tapering recess E, on its under side and a longitudinal slot F, ablock G, longitudinally adjustable in said recess and having secured to it a shank H, passing through the said seeps? slot F, and having a screw-threaded portion h, and a clamping-nut I, screwed upon the threaded portion of said shank and arranged to draw the block Gr to its seat in the recess of the frame, said shank having a head H, for supporting the curtain-roller substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLF S. LUNDBERG.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREn, LAURITZ N. MOLLER.

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