US726970A - Bracket for sash-curtain rods. - Google Patents

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- PATENTED MAY 5, 1903. A. L. MOGARTY, BRACKET FOR SASH CURTAIN RODS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1902.

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Application filed January 16, 1902. Serial No. 89,970 (No modelJ v I rods which are intended to be attached to the window-frame.

My object is to provide a bracket of this class ofsimple, durable, and inexpensive construction in which a flat plate is provided with openings at its top and one side to receive tacks or screws, and an integral extension is formed on the same plate, forming with the plate a pocket to receive the end of the curtain-rod, the extension member of the pocket being yielding relative to the fixed plate, so that the curtain-rod is forced into the pocket and there firmly held, the said extension being so positioned relative to the plate as to not obstruct the openings for the tacks or screws, and the outer end of the bracket is closed by an inte ral extension at the side of the fiat plate, thus providing an article of manufacture of very cheap and simple construction that may be readily and quickly attached to a window-sash and when attached will firmly and detachably support a curtain-rod.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction of the brackets, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 shows in perspective a portion of a window-sash having two of my improved brackets applied thereto and supporting a sash-curtain rod. Fig. 2 shows in perspective one of the brackets detached, and Fig. 3 SllOWl a blank from which the bracket is formed,

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 have used the reierencenumeral 10 to indicate the portion of the window-sash shown.

The complete bracket is made of a single piece of spring metal. This may be cut out by suitable dies, and in the fiat as shown in Fig. 3 it comprises a substantially rectangular plate 11 with a downward extension 12 at one side of its lower edge and a lateral curved extension 14 on the side of the plate 11 adjacent to the extension 12. In shaping the device for use I first form in the platell the openings 11 to receive tacks or screws.

These openings are formed at the top and at p the side opposite from the extension 14. I then curve the extension 12 outwardly and then upwardly and inwardly to form 'a hook 13, the extreme end of which inclines outwardly away from the plate 11. The upper portion of the hook 13 is closer to the plate ll than is the lower portion thereof. in placing a window-curtain rod in the hook the rod first forces the upper portion of the hook outwardly before it can drop into position resting on the bottom of the hook, and

obviously the rod cannot again be raised out of the hook without first overcoming the resiliency of the spring metal of which the hook is formed. The extension 14 is also bent at right angles to the plate 11, and its edge is shaped to conform to the curvature of the outer face of the hook 13, thus closing the end of the pocket between the hook l3 and the plate 11 and giving a neat and finished appearance to the p. ket.

It is to he remembered that the curtain-rod (indicated by nnmeral 15) is simply a thin metal rod, so that the hook 13 is quite close to the plate 11, so much so that if the plate 11 were not provided with tack or screw openings at one side of the hook it would he practically impossible to secure the bracket to a window-frame by tacks or screws, and 0bviously if the tack or screw openings were only provided at the top of the plate 11 the bracketwould be easily loosened from its fastenings by pulling outwardly on the rod 15, and, on the other hand, if an extension were provided projecting below the hook 13 this could only be done byusing a much greater amount of metal; but by my improved constrnction, where the hook 13 is located at one corner of the plate, the bracket may be made with a minimum amount of metal and the tack or screw openings be placed at the proper Hence position for strength, and at the same time there is nothing to obstruct the operation of secnring the plate 11 to a, window-frame by] top edge inelined outwardly, said plate alsotaeks or screws. 1 having at its side opposite from the openings Having thus described myinvention, what 11 an extension 14 bent at right angles to :5 I -elaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patthe plate in thedirection of the hook and hav- 5 ent of the United States therefor, is ing its edge shaped to conform to the contoun- An 'improvedsash-eurtain braeket'snscepof the hook and closing one end of the hook, tible of being stamped complete from a single substantially as and for the purposes stated,"

piece of sheet metal and comprising a rectan- Des Moines, Iowa, December 2, 1901. gular plate ll having openings 11 at its top ALFRED L. MCCARTY.

lo and one side, an'integral extension at the Witnesses: 1

lower edge of its opposite side curved out- W. R. LANE,

wardly then upwardly and inwardly with its THOMAS G. ORWIG.

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