US701817A - Curtain pole and hanger. - Google Patents

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(Application filed Aug. 17, 1900.)

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vHENRY PITT ROBERTS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ABBOTT S. MITCHELL, OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AND WILLIAM G. J EWETT,

or LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAlN POLEMAIIND HANG: ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,817, dated June 3, 1902.

Application iiled August 17, 1900. Serial No. 27,156. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, HENRY PITT ROBERTS, of Boston, county of Suffoll ,'State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain Poles and Han gers, of which the following is a description sufficiently full,- clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use To the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speci fication, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a on rtain-pole constructed in accordance with my improvement and showing portions broken away and the lambrequins or portieres sus pended; Fig. 2, a cross-section on line 2 2 in- Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a front elevation, enlarged, of Fig. 4 is a side eleva the roller or trundle. tion of one of the hangers.

drawings.

My invention relates especially to that class 2 5 of curtain-poles which are provided with traveling hangers adapted to support tapestries or portieres; and it consists in certain novel constructions in the hanger, traveler,'pole, and track, whereby a simple, cheap, and ef- 0 fective device of this character'is produced.

The nature and operation'of fthe improvement will be understood by those conversant with such matters from the followingexplanation.

In the drawings,A represents the pole consideredas a whole. This ordinarily is a com mon round rod of wood. Running longitudinally of this in what in use is the under side thereof I form a groove f, which may be de- 40 nominated triangular in crosssection with the base at the top and the side walls g of which curve or converge downwardly toward the mouth h, as shown in Fig. 2. These curved which a trundle m works.

use show only the eye 8.

I side walls form tracks for a trundle or ball m, which carries a hanger p, pendent through the slot-mouth h. It will of course be un= derstood that there is a series of these traveling hangers disposed in the slot or track The ball m, which is of a size to bear on both converging walls g, has centrally an annular groove q, forming a shank, which journals in a hanger p. This hanger consists of a single strand of wire bent or looped upon itself, form ing an eye 3, and the ends of its crossed arms being coiled to form journals 9, in each of The series of hangers p thus pendent from the slot f when in To these eyes the attaching-pins are detachably hooked. The curtain O is attached to these pins and ma 'n'ipulated in the usual manner of draw-curtains of this class, the trundles m traveling gon' the walls'of the groove or slotf in a man Like letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the different figures of thener readily understood without a more explicit description. The weight of the curtain on the loop 3 of the spring-hanger described causes its arms to approach each other. As soon as relieved by, manipulation of the curtain they spring back and affording two bearing-points amaterial distance apart facilitate in great degree the'running of the curtain.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- In a curtain-pole of .the class described the spring-hanger comprising a single strand of wire bent centrally upon itself to form a loop and the ends of its arms thus formed being coiled to form journals, 1", in the same plane as said loop; and trundles, m, mountedin said journals, the parts being so" arranged that 80 said trundles in action run in sequence.

HENRY PITT ROBER S.

Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, C. M. WILBUR.

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