US847827A - Combined curtain-pole and curtain-shade-roller bracket. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAR. 19

A. L. RUTHERFORD} CURTAIN SHADE ROLLER BRACKET.

COMBINED CURTAIN POLE AND AIPLIGATION FILED JAN. 8, 1907.

W1 IWESSE ARTHUR- L. RUTHERFORD, or. TARbivTUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification'of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 3,1907. Serial a. 350,674.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that i, ARTHUR L. RUTHER- rono, a citizen of the United States of Armorica, residing at iarentuin, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improve' ments in a Combined Curtain-Pole and Curtain-ShadeRoiler Bracket, of which the fol lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accom. anying drawing.

This "invention re ates to combined curtain-pole and curtain-shade-roller brackets; and the invention has for its rimary object to provide a novel form of bracdiiet that can be detachably secured to a Window-frame without injuring or in any manner marring the frame.

Another object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensi'vebracket having an adjustable curtain-shade-rollerholder.

A further object oi this invention is to pro vide a bracket that can be easily and quickly stamped and cut from light and durable sheet metal and then bent to form a substantial bracket for supporting curtain-poles and shade-rollers.

With these and other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing, Fi ure 1' is a perspective view of my improved bracke't as applied to a window-frame] Fig. 2 is a plan of aportion of a bracket. Fig. 3 is a developed view of a stamped bracket view of one of the adjustable eurtain-shaderoller holders.

To put my invention intolpractice', 1 cmploy sheets of metal that can be easily stamped, out, and bent to form my improved bracket. Suitable dies (not shown) are used for this purpose, and when a sheet of metal has been stamped andmeut by the dies a bracket is formed which is complete, except for bending ortions thereof and equipping the same wit 1 a curtainshade-roller holder and a fastener.

The bracket comprises adapted to-fit u on the corner of the windowframe 2. The iiody portion 1 is formed with a top flange 3, adapted to overlie the upper edges of the window-frame 2. One side of the body portion 1 carries a skeleton exten Fig, 4 is a perspective a body portion 1,.

sion 4, terminating in a hook or curtain-pole support 5. In stamping and cutting the extension 4 pointed lugs or prongs 6 are formed, said lugs or prongs being bent to embrace the -vertical"edges 7 of the frame 2, as at 6, and engage behind said frame, as at "6", while the skeleton extension 4 is bent forward at right angles to the body portion 1 to provide one of the curtain-pole supports The lower edge of the body portion 1 is Patented. Max-ch19, r907.

stain ed and cut to provide horizontally-dis poser guides 8, these guides being bent inwardly to adjustably su ort a curtain: shade-roller-holder 9, sai holder having a pierced extension 10. Another holder 11 is associated with the holder 9, the holder 11 being used upon the o posite side of the frame 2 and provided wit sion 12. The extensions 10 and 12 conform somewhat to the ordinary curtain-shaderoller brackets at present used.

In forming the body portion 1 the same is provided with OJenings 14, one of said openings being empioyed to secure a resilient fastener or coiled spring 15 to the bracket.

a slotted. exten The resilient fastener or coil-spring 1s. proconnection with the drawing, it' willbe seen j that a simple and inexpensive windowbracket has been provided for en portin curtain-poles and curtain-shade rol ers, sai brackets being easily and cuickly applied to a frame and easily remove The brackets are constructed of metal which when bent will have sufiicient rigidity to safely support a curtain-pole and curtainshade roller.

It is obvious that when forming the brackets for the left-hand side of the frame 2 that the extension 4 and lugs or prongs 6 will be bent in just. the opposite direction from those forming part of t e bracket used upon the right-hand side of the frame 2. This is also true in connection with the top flange 3 and the guides 8.

, What 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A curtain and shade supporting bracket formed from a blank of sheet metal which is shaped to forni a body portion adapted to wardly-extending longitudinal flange adapted to engage the top of a window-frame, the

said blank having one end thereof bent out- Wardly at right angles to the body to. form an extension constituting a curtain-pole bracket, said extension'having parts struck out therefrom to engage with the window frame, and said body having guides struck out therefrom to receive and hold a shaderoller bracket.

2. A window-fixture, comprising a bracket formed from a blank of sheet metal shaped to form a body portion to lie against a window-frame, and besceured thereto, and an outwardly-extending skeleton extension, lugs struckout-i'rom said extension to engage with the window-frame and secure the bracket thereto, and longitudinal guides struck out from the body tb receive and hold a shaderoller bracket.

' 3. A Window-fixture comprising a bracket formed from a blank of sheet metal shaped to form a body portion to lie against a window-frame and be secured thereto, and ha ing a part thereof bent outwardly at right angles to the body portion to form an e. tension constituting a curtain-pole support, lugs struck out from said extension to engage with the windmv-i'rame and secure the bracket thereto, guides struck out from the body ortion to receive and hold a shade roller racket, and a yielding fastening member also connecting the body portion of the bracket with the window-frame.

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

ARTHUR L. RUTHERFORD. Witnesses:

W. A. MARVIN, II. E. RUTHERFORD.

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