US978246A

US978246A - Window-shade support.

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Publication number: US978246A
Application number: US54721010A
Authority: US
Inventors: Louis F Weiher
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-03-04
Filing date: 1910-03-04
Publication date: 1910-12-13
Anticipated expiration: 1927-12-13

Description

L. F. WEIHER.

1910. 978,246. Patented Dec. 13,1910.

LOUIS F. WEIHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WINDOW-SHADE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 13, 1910.

Application filed March 4, 1910. Serial No. 547,210.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, LOUIS F. WVnInnR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The invention has reference to iron window-casings used in the construction of modern fire-proof buildings, and it consists in the novel means hereinafter described and claimed applied to the facing removable side portions of said casings for holding the usual spring-rollers for the window shades.

The purpose of the invention is to obviate the difliculties, inconvenience and expense heretofore experienced in ap lying shades to iron window-casings, ELIIC to provide shade-roller holders adapted to adequately receive and support such rollers and to be quickly and securely applied to the iron window frames without the use of screws or the necessity of drilling and tapping holes in the frames.

The shade-roller holders of my invention are each in one integral piece of metal, preferably sheet steel, and in the form of a vertical hanger having a box-like portion containing a bearing for the stud-end of the roller and the upper end of the hanger being of hook construction to be applied over the upper end of the stop-bead or removable strip constituting a part of the side of the window-casing.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a front view, partly broken away, of the upper portion of a metal wind0w-casing equipped with shade-roller holders embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a ver tical longitudinal section through a portion of one side of the same, the holder also be ing in vertical section; Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of one of the holders, this holder having in its box-like portion a vertical slot to receive and afford a bearing for the stud of the roller connected with the usual spring-mechanism; Fig. 4 is a like view of the other or companion holder having in its box-like portion a circular aperture to receive and afford a bearing for the end-stud which is rigid with the roller, and Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view showing the manner of constructing the holders of my invention when they are intended at each window to support two shade-rollers, as for instance a roller having a white shade and a roller having a blue or green or other dark shade.

In the drawings, 10 designates the facing vertical stop-beads or removable strips at the opposite sides of the window-casing, 11 the lintel-strip whose ends match the upper ends of said removable strips, 12 one of the shade-roller holders, 13 the other or companion shade-roller holder, 11 the shaderoller, 15 the shade thereon, 16 the polygonal stud connected with the usual spring-mechanism of the roller, and 17 the cylindrical stud which is rigid with its end of the roller and rotates therewith.

The metal window-casing and the shaderoller, with its shade, are of customary construction and therefore require no special description.

The holders 12, 13 .in their combination with the windowcasing and shade-roller embrace the novel features of my invention and their construction is clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, while their manner of application and use is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Each of the holders 12, 13 is in one integral strip of metal, preferably sheet steel, bent to form an exposed member 18 and an upper hook-member 19, the latter hooking over the upper end of the stop-bead or strip 10 and closely engaging the inner face of the same, while the said member 18 firmly binds against the outer face of said strip. The holders 12, 13 not only bind against the strips 10 but are held down by the ends of the lintel strip 11, and hence said holders when applied to position become very firmly secured without the use of screws or other equivalent means. The holders 12, 13 being of flat sheet metal atl'ord sufficient width at their upper ends to resist any tendency to pivotal or swinging motion, especially when engaged across the width of their upper ends by the adjoining edges of the

windowcasing strips

10, 11.

The exposed members 18 of the holders 12, 13 are formed .intermediate their ends with outwardly prejecting box-like sections 20 which aiford the bearings for the rollerstuds 16, 17 the section 20 of the holder 12 being formed with a vertical recess or slot. 21 open at its upper end to receive the stud 16 and the section 20 of the holder 13 havsary to apply near the upper ends of said strips, I, cut out or recess the outer edge portions of the holders, as at 23, to afford the requisite free space for any screws neces-v sary for the upper ends of the strips 10. The roller 14 will be applied to the holders 12, 13 in the same manner that it is customarily applied to the usual bearings commonly secured to wooden window casings, one purpose of my invention being not to vary the customary manner of mounting.

shade-rollers.

The holders 12, 13 shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and l are intended to receive a single shade-roller. In many buildings, however, such as apartment houses, it is usual to employ at each window two shades, one of white fabric and one of dark fabric, and in adapting my invention to the use of two shade-rollers I construct the holders with two box-like sections 24, as shown in Fig. 5, one being below the other, and each affording a bearing for'the end of one roller. In Fig. 5 I show the sections 24: as having apertures 25 for the cylindrical studs of the shade-rollers, and it will be understood that the companion holder for that illustrated in Fig. 5 will have in its box-like sections vertical slots or recesses corresponding with the slot 21 shown in Fig. '3 for the polygonal studs of the rollers.

Whether the shade-roller holders are intended to receive one roller or two rollers, I preferably provide the holders 12 with spring-latches 26 forlocking the polygonal studs 16 of the rollers in the slots 21 of said holders. The latch 26 is a piece of spring metal preferably of inverted T shape riveted to the holder 12 and having its cross-bar portion within the section 20 and crossing the slot 21 therein. The latch 26 yields to the pressure of the stud 16 when the latter is applied to the slot 21 and thereafter springs to its initial position closing the end of said slot and locking the stud 16 therein. The roller is by means of the latch 26 prevented, on any rough handling of the window-shade, from becoming dislodged from the holder 12, and in addition the latch 26 enables the holder to be applied to the lower end of the window-casing when a shade-roller is desired in that location, the holder being then inverted in position and hooked under the lower end of the stop-bead. The holder 12 is shown as applied to the upper end of the left hand stop-bead butin case a roller should be required or desired at the lower I end of the window, said holder 12, without change therein, would be applied to the lower end of the right hand stop-bead, the latch 26 then serving to close the then-lower end of the slot 21 and, at its cross-bar, support the polygonal stud 16 of the roller.

WVhat I claim .as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: 1. In combination with a metal window casing having facing stop-beads (10) and part (11.) whose ends match the ends of said stop -beads, shade-roller holders therefor each comprising an integral metal strip or plate to engage the face of a stop-bead of said casing and having a box -like section affording a bearing for a stud at the end of the shade-roller and at one end being bent over in line with its length to form a hookmember and hooked over the end of the stop- I bead and engaged by the said part (11), which binds against the said holders and prevents vertical movement of the same, said holders closely binding against the inner and outer faces of the stop-beads and one holder in its box-like portion being slotted to receive the polygonal stud of the roller spring-mechanism, while the other holder in.

itsboX-like portion has a'bearing for the usual end-stud rigidlyconnected with the roller; substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with a metal windowcasing having. facing stop-beads (10) and part (11) whose ends match the ends of said stop-beads, shade-roller holders therefor each comprising an integral metal strip or plate to engage the face of a stop-bead of said' casing and having a box-like section afford ing a bearing for a stud at the end of the shade-roller and at one end being bent over in line with its length to form a. h0ok-memher and hooked over the end of the stop-bead 1 and engaged by the said part (11), which binds against the said holders and prevents vertical movement of the same, said holders closely binding against the inner and outer faces of the stop-beads, and one holder in screws necessary for securing the stop-beads;

substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with a metal window casing having facing stop-beads (10) and part (11) whose ends match the ends of said stop-beads, shade-roller holders therefor each comprising an integral metal strip'or plate to engage the face of a stop-bead of said casing and having a box-like section aifording a bearing for a stud at the end of the shade-roller and at one end being bent over in line with its length to form a hook-member and hooked over the end of the stop-bead and engaged by the said art (11), which binds against the said hol ers and prevents vertical movement of the same, said holders closely binding against the inner and outer faces of the stop-beads and one holder in its box-like portion being slotted to receive the polygonal stud of the roller spring-mechanism and provided with a spring-latch to lock said stud in said slot, while the other holder in its box-like portion has a bearing for the usual end-stud rigidly connected With 15 ends extending laterally beyond the edges of 20 the slot therein; substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this first day of March A. D. 1910.

LOUIS F. WEIHER. Witnesses:

CHAS. G. GILL, ARTHUR MARION.