US852894A - Curtain hanger or support. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

J. I. MOODY.

GURTAIN HANGER OR SUPPORT.

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PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTQE JOHN I. MCCOY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HARRY HAMILTON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratented. May '7, 1907.

Application filed November 19,1906. Serial No. 344,171.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN I. MCCOY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain Hangers or Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved curtain hanger or support which may be swung down into such a position that a person standing on the floor may drape the curtain upon the pole and which may be readily swung up to operative position after the curtain has been draped, and a further object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of curtain support or hanger of this character which may be readily extended both laterally and longitudi nally so as to accommodate the device for windows of different sizes.

With this and other objects in view as will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions, and arrangements of the parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a.

knowledge of the details of construction of the means for efiec ting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and accomp anying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a face view of the window having our improved curtain hanger or support applied thereto and with the device shown in elevated position; Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the curtain support lowered; Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the sectional cross bar of the device with its clamping sleeve; and, Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the extensible standards.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the side sills of a window frame to which my improved device is applied, and 2 designates the two swinging standards of my device which are constructed in sections 3 and 4-. designed to overlap each other and each provided with a yoke plate 5 extending gether at their free ends by means of a cross bar 8 which is preferably mortised in one ofthe sections of the standards and secured thereto by screws or similar fastening de vices, and said cross bar is also constructed in sections 9 and 10, as shown, the sections extending toward each other and in aline ment therewith, and the inwardly extending ends of the two sections 9 and 10 are mounted to slide in a sleeve 11 common to both. Set screws 12 are mounted in the sleeve 11 and are adapted to impinge against the sections 9 and 10 of the cross bar so as to hold the section in the desired distance across the window frame.

By the means above described, the swinging frame constituted by the standards 2 and the cross bar 8 may be extended both longitudinally and laterally according to the size of the window to which the device is to be applied.

Shade or curtain brackets 13 are secured to the freeends of the respective swinging standards 2 and project outwardly therefrom and are arranged to support the curtain pole 14. Screw eyes or similar attaching devices 15 are secured to the respective standards at the free ends of the same and chains 16 or similar flexible members are secured at one end to the respective screw eyes and at their other ends to any convenient portion of the window frame so as to limit the downwardly and outwardly swinging movement of the standards.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be understood that whenever it is desired to drape a curtain upon a pole, the standards 2 with their cross bars 8 are swung outwardly and downwardly in convenient relation to the floor, being held in such position by the said flexible members and then a person may said. sections by means of tie bolts 23.

readily drape a curtain over the pole Without the necessity of using a chair or step-ladder for this purpose.

To raise the device after the curtain has been draped on the pole and to maintain the device in its normal elevated position, the sleeve 11 that connects the two sections of the cross bar 8 is provided with a forwardly extending apertured ear 17 to which one end of the cord or cable 18 is secured, and said. cable extends over a sheave or pulley 19 at the top of the window frame, and preferably.

s'ult, I preferably employ two pairs of arms 21 that are mortised as indicated at 2 and are designed to fit the sections 9 and 10, as shown, and to embrace and be clampedr 1to 1e ordinary brackets 24, above referred to, may be attached to the front arm of each pair, as shown in the drawings, by means of screws or any desired fastening means.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

An adjustable curtain support, comprising standards each of which is constructed in overlapping extensible sections, means for holding said sections at different extensions, said standards being adapted to be hinged at one end to the side bars of a window frame, curtain brackets secured to the free ends of said standards, a cross bar constructed in extensible sections which are connected to the standards, respectively, a connecting sleeve encircling the inner ends of both sections of the cross bar, set screws mounted in said connecting sleeve and adapted to impinge against the respective sections of the cross bar, said sleeve being-provided with an apertured ear, a cord secured at one end of said ear and adapted to pull the cross bar upwardly, and flexible limiting members connected at one end to the free ends of the standards and at their upper ends to the window frame and designed to limit the outwardly and downwardly swinging 'movement of the standards, as and for the purpose set forth. 4

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

JOHN I. MCCOY. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

C. F. GREATHAUSER, M. H. ENGLAND.

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