US831195A - Curtain-shade fixture. - Google Patents

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PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

H. H. STRATTON.

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HENRY H. STRATTON, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE. OURTAlN-SHADE FlXTURE.

. p No. 831,195. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed November 20,1906. Serial No. 288,267. i

To all whom it may concern.- of and with a recess 18 extending radially of Be it known that I, HENRY H. STRATTON, the aperture, the larger aperture. to permit a citizen of the United States, residing at the passage of the stop-collar and the Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and recess to receive the portion of the stud be- 5 State of Tennessee, have inve ted a new an tween the collars. By this means the hanuseful Curtain-Shade Fixture, of which the ger may be readily attached to the stud and following is a specification. support the same rotatively therein.

This invention relates to window-curtain- At the angular stud end of the roller a clip shade fixtures, and has for its object to pro 19 is disposed over the angular stud and I o vide a simplyconstructed device whereby closely engages the same to hold it from turnan ordinary window-shade roller and shade ing and is provided with a threaded aperture are adjustably suspended relative to the through which the threaded end 20 of a hanwindow-opening and without material strucger-rod 21 operates and bears upon the stu tural change in the roller or curtain. within the clip and serving as a set-screw to 15 With these and other objects in view, rigidly connect the parts. The hanger-r0 which will appear as the nature of the inven- 21 has a terminal eye 22, and the hanger tion is better understood, the invention conmember 16 is l'lrewise provided with a tersists in certain novel features of construction, minal eye 23. as hereinafter fully described and claimed. The window-casing (represented at 24) is 2o 5 In the accompanying drawings, forming a rovided with spaced cord-guides 25 6, part of this specification, and in which correwhich are preferably ordinary screw-eyes, spending parts are denoted by like designatand the hanger-rod 21 and hanger member -ng characters, is illustrated the preferre 16 are provided,'respectively, with terminal form of the embodiment of the invention eyes 22 23 and a pull-cord 27 is connected 8o 25 capable of carrying the same into practical at the ends, respectively, to said eyes an operation, it being understood that various leads throu h the guide members and dechanges in the form, proportion, and minor ends over the cas ng at one side. Attached details of construction may be resorted to to the bight 28 of the pull-cord is another without departing from the principle or saccord 29, extending to a point convenient to 8 5 o rificing any 0' the advantages of this inventhe hand of the operator. Attached to the tion within the scope of the appended claim. casing 24 in position to receive the cord 29 Figure 1 is an elevation from the inside of is a cord-supporting member consisting of a a window and its casing, with the improvedisk 30, having a threaded stud for screwing ments applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, into the casing, and with an inclined inner 9o 3 5 enlarged, of a shade-roller with its end studs. y face 31, between which and the adjacent face Fig. 3 is a perspective view, enlarged, of the of the casing the cord 29 is compressed when hanger memberfor the spring end of the roller. wound around the supporting member. y Fig. 4 is a view, enlarged, of the hanger for the this simple arrangement it will be obvious rotating end of the roller. Fig. 5 is aperspecthat the curtain-roller and its shade may be 5 o tive view, enlarged, of the stud for the rotaadiusted to any desired point and any retive end of the roller. Fig 6 is an enlarged quired width of the shade displayed over the sectional detail of the cor -holding device. window-opening and any required portion The improved device is applicable to any of the window covered. of the ordinary spring-actuated shade-rollers The device is simple in construction, may I00 45 in common use, and for the purpose of illusbe inexpensively manufactured, and applied tration a roller of this class is represented at l to any required size of roller. 10 with a cylindrical stud 11 at the rotative Having thus described the invention,what end and an angular stud 12 at the spring en is claimed is and with the shade 13 attached to the roller In a curtain-shade fixture, the combina- 50 in the ordinary manner. tion with a shade and shaderoller, the latter In the im roved device the cylindrical having a cylindrical stud at one end provide stud is provided with spaced stop-collars 14: with spaced stop-collars and an angular stud 15, and no other change is made in the roller. at the other end, a hanger having an eye at At the circular stud end of the roller a han one end and with a transverse aperture interiio er member 16 is disposed having a rela mediate thereof for receiving said stop-coltively large aperture 17 intermediately therelars and provided with a radial recess for receiving the portion of the stud between the members and the shade-roller and shade sup :0

collars, a c ip-bearing over said angular stud ported thereby.

an provided with a threaded aperture, a In testimony that I claim the foregoing as anger-rod having an eye at one end and my own I have hereto afiixed my signature with the other end threaded and operating in the presence of two witnesses.

in said threaded aperture and clamping the HENRY H. STRATTON. angular stud against the bottom of the clip, Witnesses:

and pull-cords connected to said eyes and WILL B. BURTON,

adapted to vertically adjust said hanger 7 I. P. HosKINs.

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