US907696A - Adjustable window shade and curtain fixture. - Google Patents

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A. LOGSDON. ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 27,1907.

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ALFRED LOGSDON, OF PERRY, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE I. BIRDSALL, OF PERRY, IOWA.

ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED LOGSDON, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Perry, Dallas coun y, Iowa, have invented a new Adjustable Window Shade and Curtain Fixture, of which the following is a specification.

My objectis to prevent the annoyances and difficulties incident to fastening fixtures to the top of a window casing for supporting window shades and curtains.

Heretofore fixtures have been held in place by means of nails and screws and the wooden window facing marred and damaged thereby. Adjustable fixtures have also been used but in no instance have the fixtures on the opposite sides of a window been adjustably connected with each other in such a manner that they could be jointly adjusted relative to each other and a window casing and clamped fast to the casing.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a face view of one of the main parts of my fixtures and shows an adjustable rod connected with its inner end. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line a; a: of Fig. 1 and shows a toothed clamp extending at right angles from the outer end of the main part and a part of a curtain support fixed to the end portion of the main part. Fig. 3 is a modification of Fig. 1 and shows an extension at the outer end of the main part for the purpose of placing the shade bracket and the curtain support some distance from the window casing whenever desired. Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse sectional view on the line 1 y of Fig. 1 and shows how a bracket for a shade roller is detachably and adjustably connected with the main part. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a detachable shade bracket. Fig. 6 shows my invention applied to a window as required for practical use. Fig. 7 shows an end view of the device shown in Fig. 1 looking from the left.

The numerals 10 designate the two mating main parts of my invention and consist of straight flat metal bars that have outward bent parts 12 at their inner ends provided with screw seats as required to admit the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 27, 1907.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Serial No. 381,551.

screw ends of a rod 13 as shown in Fig. 6 for adjustably connecting them. Their outer ends are bent inwards and preferably provided with teeth 14 as shown to bite fast to the edges of a window facing as required to clamp the complete fixture to a window as shown in Fig. 6. The central portion of each part 10 is out free at its sides and pressed outward from its front face as clearly shown in Fig. 2, to serve as an elongated solid bearing 15 for detachable shade brackets 16 that have openings at the center of their lower ends and flat feet 17 and 18 that project in reverse ways, as shown in Fig. 5. Shade rollers of different lengths are readily connected with the adjustable brackets.

To the outer ends of the parts 10 are fixed curtain supports 20 by means of rivets, or in any suitable way, to project forward so a curtain roller can be readily placed thereon as required for suspending a curtain in front of the shade roller and shade. For rotating the rod 13 as required for moving the mating parts 10 relative to each other for clamping them fast to a window facing the rod may be square at its central portion for applying a wrench, or it may be provided with holes into which a nail or pin may be inserted for turning the rod.

Having thus set forth the purposes of my invention and its construction, application and manner of use its practical operation and utility will be obvious.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

A fixture for window shades and curtains comprising mating fiat plates having their longitudinal central portions bent outward to produce elongated integral and solid bearers, their inner ends bent outward and provided with screw holes, their outer ends bent inwards and terminating with teeth, shade roller supports fixed to their outer end portions and brackets having openings in the centers of their lower ends and feet projecting in reverse ways adjustably and detachably connected with said elongated solid bearers projecting outward from said mating flat plates as shown to operate as set forth.

ALFRED LOGSDON.

Witnesses:

G. I. BIRDSALL, H. A. HOYT.

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