US752397A - Curtain-roll support - Google Patents

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PATENTBD. FEB. 1-6, 1964.

N. G. JONES. CURTAIN ROLL SUPPORT.

APP UATIONP 1 UNITED STATES Patented February 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HALF TO MARTIN B. CARPENTER, O F SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

. CURTAIN-ROLL SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 752,397, dated February 16, 1904. Application filed June 8,1903. Serial No. 160,532. no model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEWTON O. J ONES, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Springfield, in'the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Roll Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in curtain-roll supports, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the supportingbracket in which the end portion of the cur tain-roll is journaled for rotation is adjustable of any special screws or fastenings and without marring or disfiguring the woodwork.

The invention consists in constructions and combinations of parts, all substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claim. A

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective illustration of the improved duplicated curtain-roll supports, the bracket member of one thereof being shown as detached from its sup: porting or base member. Fig. 2 is a perspective View illustrating the capability for an interchange of the bracket member relatively to its base member for increasing the range of adjustment. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view through a portion of the win: dew-casing as taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 1, and showing the arrangement and engagement of the supporting member therewith.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views. I

In the drawings, A indicates the windowcasing having the usual molding or thin strip B along: its inner face, the same being usually seciured in place by screws at suitable interva s.

The curtain roll support comprises the bracket member 0 and the base member D. The base is advantageously composed of a thin metallic sheet-metal strip having portions 6 and d bent at right angles to each other, the portion 5 being struck up along its central line to produce externally a rib. f and internally a channel g, said rib having the longitudinal slot 71., The bracket member comprises the portion a', of similar sheet metal, struck up with the longitudinal rear side ohannel and front side rib, the channel extending through from end to end of the portion 2' and adapted to fit over, to be engaged with, and also to slide along the rib-like portion f of the base member, said part having the longitudinal slot j in line with the aforementioned slot h, and the bracket proper extends forwardly from the end of the portionc' at right angles thereto, as indicated at It. A nut is, as shown at m, disposed within the channel at the rear side of the base member D of the fixture receiving the screw-threaded inner end portion of the screw 0, which protrudes through the matched slots and has its head in clamping engagement against the outer face of the bracket member, this screw when tightened uniting the members C and D and preventing movement of the one relatively to the other.

One of the brackets has the usual aperture 0', while the other has the round hole q for acquiring the detachable engagement of the curtain-roller with the curtain-roller supports.

The portion 62 of the base member D of the device is adapted to be inserted in the manner indicated in the drawings between the molding-strip B and the window-casing proper, A, this being readily permissible, because of the comparatively thin character of said portion ings, and the downward draft on the curtainroll support occasioned by any pulling on the curtain or curtain-rod having the tendency through the leverage brought against the brackets to swing the metallic supports downwardly causes the impingement or biting of the inner lower edge of the said lip against and into the front face of the window-casing, it being manifest that the harder the draft against the fixture the more certain will become the engagement of the fixture against the casing. As shown, the said lip may be simply and economically produced by slitting the metal adjacent the junction of the portions 6 and d of the base member and right angularly bending out the portion of the metal,

two of the edges of which become thereby severed.

The bracket members will be generally arranged with the portions k 70 at the outer ends of the fixtures, as shown in Fig. 1, a considerable range of adjusting movement being possible by the reason of the slots h and j; but the range of adjustment is still further increased by interchanging the bracket members, so thatthe bracket portions 70 are inwardly disposed,as represented in Fig. 2, which may be done by removing the right-hand bracket member from its base member and bringing it to engagement with the left-hand base member, and vice versa.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the window-casing having the strip B, of the base member D comprising right-angularly arranged portions 6 and d and having the lip extending in a plane right angularly to the face of the portion (I, for coaction relatively to the windowcasing and its said strip as explained, and a lgracket member supported on the base mem- Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NEWTON C. JONES.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWS, A. V. LEAHY.

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