US819577A - Curtain-fixture. - Google Patents

Description

' PATENTED MAY 1, 1906.

P. F. MOGARTY.

'UURTAIN FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED J AN.16, 1906.

A m a lNVE/VTOI'? PETER FTM CARTY A TTORNE Y S UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Jra'tentecl. may 1, 1906.

Application filed January 16, 1906. Serial No. 296,333.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER F. MoCARTY, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Curtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in ourtain-fixtures, and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the fixture as in use. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the fixture as in use. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the supporting-section, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the bracket-section.

The fixture, as shown, comprises a supporting-section A and a bracket-section-B. The former has the main or face plate A, the top plate A and the hammer edge A The top plate A is provided at its inner edge with the depending spurs A whose inner edges at A incline outwardly toward their lower ends or points, while their opposite edges are inclined outwardly and are shouldered at A",

thus forming a barb which aids in holding j ecting doubled portion of metal formed, preferably, by stamping the section A out of sheet metal in such manner as to provide an upwardly-projecting hammer edge at the junction of the face-plate A and the top plate A By this means I provide a surface to receive the stroke of a hammer or other suitable implement which may thus be operated to drive the spurs A into the wood without injuring in any way the supporting-section even when the latter is made of comparatively thin material. Moreover, this hammer edge provides the upwardly projecting rib or portion for engagement by the hook at the upper edge of the back plate B of the bracket B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The face-plate A has an intermediate porbracket may be made 0 tion which rests fiat against the surface of the window-frame (see Fig. 1) and is provided at its upper and lower edges with the outw'ardly-defiected portions A and A the former lying in the same plane as the lower deflected portion A in order to preserve the back plate B of the bracket in avertical plane when applied as shown in Fig. 2 and the lower outwardly-deflected wing A at the free edge of the face-plate A operat 65 ing by its resilience to secure the bracket 'by a springing action when the parts are applied as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In the lower edge of the outwardly-deflected portion A, I provide a series of notches A forming seats for the tongue at the lower end of the brack'et'in the operation of the invention and permitting the adjustment of the bracket laterally along the supporting-section and the securing of said bracket in any suitable adjustment as may be desired.

The bracket B is provided with the baseplate B, having at its upper end the hook B to engage the upwardly-projecting edge or bead A and rovided at its lower end with the rearward y-projecting tongue B which is fitted to seat in the notches A in the lower edge of the face-plate A in securing the bracket in any suitable adjustment. The bracket is provided with the outwardly-projecting portion, having at B a seat for the curtain-pole and also provided at the outer end of said seat with the lateral lug B receiving a screw B, which may be tightened to secure the curtain-pole in place. I also provide the bracket at B with bearings for an ordinary curtain-pole, which may be adjusted thereto as desired, and in ractice one of these brackets may be close as shown in full lines in Fig. 2, or 0 en, as indicated in dotted lines in the same gure, as is common in curtain-brackets.

In the operation of the invention the bracket B may be engaged by its hook B with the upwardly-pro ecting bead A of the supporting-frame and its tongue B be forced into engagement with any of the notches A", the spring afforded by the lateral deflection at A tending to bind the tongue securely in such manner as to prevent any accidental displacement of the bracket without interfering with its application to and removal from the supporting-section, as may be desired.

In practice the supporting section and any suitable material and in any desired manner and finished by enameling, nickeling, or otherwise plated to suit the taste of different purchasers.

I claim 1 The improved curtain-fixture herein described, comprising a supporting-section having a face-plate deflected outwardly at its upper and lower ends and having its lower free end notched in its lower edge and adapted to operate by its resilience to yieldingly retain the tongue of a bracket-section, the section being returned or folded at its up er end to form a doubled hammer edge an extended to provide a top plate and spurs depending therefrom, and a bracket having means for supporting curtain holders and provided with a back plate having at its upper end a hook to engage the doubled portion of the supporting-section and at its lower end a pro jecting tongue to engage in the notches in the lower deflected portion of the faceplate of the supporting-section, substantially as set forth.

2. A curtain-fixture, comprising a supporting-section having a face-plate deflected at its upper and lower ends, and notched in its lower edge and provided at its upper end with the projecting bead, and a bracket having a hook engaging with said bead and a projecting tongue for engagement with the notched I lower edge of the face-plate, substantially as set forth.

3. In a curtain-fixture, a supporting-section having a face-plate, a top plate and an upwardly-projecting doubled hammer edge at the uncture of the face-plate and top plate, in combination with a bracket having a hook engaging the said hammer edge, substantially as set forth.

4:. A curtain-fixture comprising a supporting-section having a face-plate deflected outwardly at its lower end and notched in its lower edge andadapted to operate by its resilience to yieldingly retain a tongue pressed therein, and a bracket-section detachably engaging at its upper end with the supportingsection above said outwardly-deflected lower end and provided with a projecting tongue to engage in the notches in the lower deflected portion of the supporting-section, substantially as set forth.

PETER F. MCOARTY.

Witnesses:

HAZEL N ORDEMAN, JOHN H. D. NORDEMAN

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