US819597A - Combined curtain-pole and shade-bracket support. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 1, 1906.

J. H. REYNOLDS. COMBINED CURTAIN POLE AND SHADE BRACKET SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1906.

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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFIOE.

JAMES H. REYNOLDS, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO HUNTINGTON CURTAIN POLE COMPANY, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

COMBINED CURTAIN-POLE AND SHADE-BRACKET SUPPORT- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 1906.

Application filed January 16, 1906. Serial No. 296,376.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Huntington, in the county of Cabell and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Curtain-Pole and Shade-Bracket Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined curtain-pole and shade-bracket support designed for adjustable connection with the window frame.

The object of the invention is to provide a curtain-pole and shade-bracket composed of two parts having a telescopic connection whereby the device may be conveniently adjusted for application to windows of diiferent widths and having a novel construction of adjustable hangers whereby the support may be maintained in proper horizontal position without regard to any defective setting of the window-frame, and, further, to provide novel means for eifecting an interlocking connection between the brackets and polesections.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which igure 1 is a perspective view showing the application of the invention to a windowframe. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section through the support. Figs. 3 and 4 are cross-sections through the parts of the rod or pole and showing the two bracket members in side elevation. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section through the sleeve of one of the brackets, showing the adjustable connection of the hangertherewith. Figs. 6 and 7 are sections taken on the lines 6 6 and 7 7, respectively, of Fig. 2. Fig. 8 is a fragmentary perspective view of one of the brackets and connecting end of the rod-section, showing the means for securing an interlocking connection therebetween. Fig. 9 is a cross-section through the slotted portion of the rodsection shown in Fig. 8.

The support comprises two companion members, each including a hollow rod or pole section, a bracketlate for supporting the same, and a hanger or supporting the bracket plate. These members, with the exception of the details hereinafter referred to, are duplicates, and a detailed description of one will accordingly suffice for both.

Each member comprises a hollow rod 1 and a bracket 2, the latter consisting of a plate of ornamental form and arranged at a right angle to the plane of the rod. The plate is provided with a forwardly-projecting portion 3, notched in its upper edge to form a seat-recess 4 for the reception of the outer end of the rod. The forward edge of one of the brackets below the portion 3 is formed with one or more angular slots 5 for the reception of the squared end of the shade-roller shaft, while the forward edge of the other bracket is formed with openings 6 for the reception of the trunnion of the shade-roller, a plurality of these slots and openings being preferably provided in order to permit of the shade-roller being hung at different elevations.

Each pole or rod section 1 is formed of spring metal and longitudinally split and is provided at its end which engages the seat 4 with slots 7, disposed on opposite sides of the slitted portion, said slots being adapted to receive locking-lugs 8, formed upon the side walls of the seat-recess 4. In appl ing the rod to the bracket the slotted end of the rod is contracted by pressure, so as to permit the same to be seated in the recess and the rod then permitted to expand to bring the slotted portions thereof into locking engagement with the lugs 8, thus securely fastening the rod in position.

The rods 1 extend a short distance beyond the brackets 2 and are provided with ornamental knobs 10, each knob having a hollow stud or projection 11 to telescopically engage the projecting end of the rod. The stud or projection 1 l prevents contraction of the end of the rod and accidental disengagement of the same from the lugs 8.

The rear edge of the bracket-plate 2 carries an adjustable hanger 12, comprising a threaded rod having a hooked or laterally-bent end 13, adapted to extend over the upperedge of the lintel of the window-frame and support the bracket therefrom and terminating in a spur 14 to engage and hold it in connection with the frame. The rear edge of the bracketplate is formed with a sleeve 15 to receive the rod, which sleeve is provided with an enlarged or expanded portion 16, receiving and holding from rotary motion a nut 17, engaged by the threaded rod, wh'ereby the hanger may be vertically adjusted. By this construction the support may be hung in a true horizontal position u on the window-frame regardless of defects 1n the setting of said frame.

The rods 1 are designed for telescopic connection, one being arranged to slide Within the other, as shown, whereby they may be adjusted to space the brackets a greater or less distance apart for application to windowframes of different widths.

It will be observed that the combinationsupport is of simple structure, light, durable, and ornamental and, withal, may be inexpensively produced.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a support of the character described, a bracket comprising a flat vertical plate formed at its rear edge with a sleeve having an expanded portion, a nut held Within the expanded portion, and a hanger extending into the sleeve and threaded to engage the nut and provided at its upper end with suspending means.

2. In a support of the character described, a bracket provided with a sleeve having an enlarged portion, a nut held within the enlarged portion, and a hanger extending into the sleeve and threaded to engage the nut.

3. In a support of the character described,

a bracket having a seatrecess, a hollow rod seated therein, said rod having an interlocking connection with the wall of the recess, and a knob having astud entering the rod and holding the parts in interlocking connection.

4. In a support of the character described, a bracket having a seat-recess and lugs projecting thereinto, a hollow split rod seated in said recess and having slots receiving the rod, and a knob having a stud entering the rod and maintaining the parts in engagement.

5. A combined curtain-pole and shade support comprising brackets having seat-recesses and lugs projecting into said recesses, adjustable hangers carried by the brackets to support the same from a window-frame, telescopic rods supported by said brackets, each rod consisting of a split tube seated at its outer end in the recess of its supportingbracket and projecting beyond the same and rovided with slots to receive said lugs, and Iinobs having studs projecting into the outer ends of the rods and holding the slotted portions thereof in engagement with the lugs.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

HUGH MARTINDALE, L. D. ISBELL.

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