US981184A - Curtain-sign for windows. - Google Patents

Description

J. H. FITCH.

APPLIOATION FILED PEB. 3, 1909.

CURTAIN SIGN FOR WINDOWS.

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JOI-IN II. FITCH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CURTAI-SIGN FOR l/VINDOWS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 3, 1909.

Patented Jan. it), 1911. serial No. 475,884.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN H. FITCH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago7 in the county of Cook and State. of Illinois, hare invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Signs for lWindows, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

My invention relates to curtain signs that are adapted to be used in the display windows of shops, stores, and business places, and particularly to that class of signs Wherein so-me method of artificial illumination is employed for the purpose of displaying the subject-matter contained in these signs.

Une of the objects of my invention is to provide means whereby the sign may be readily changed from day to day without the necessity of making' a new sign.

A further object of my invention is to provide a window display sign such as above briefly described that will not readily get out of order, and which can be easily changed or altered whenever it may be found necessary to do so. This I accomplish by the means hereinafter fully described and as more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings:-I1`igure l is a central transverse section of a store window having my il'nln'oved curtain signs therein and showing one of the same in position. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatical perspective view, partly broken away of a window having my improved curtain sign therein. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the window looking down upon the same above the curtain. Fig. 4: is a detailed view of the bracket for supporting the curtains7 the saine being shown in the perspective.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the framework of a suitable display window for stores, that has its front provided with the usual pane of glass B extending from the side to side of said window and arising to aheight approximately. corresponding to that of said window. Secured preferably, to the rear of the ceiling or to the back wall of this window frame is a suitable curtain supporting bracket C comprising a metal strip bent back upon itself to form a flat screw-plate or screwing portion c and projecting forwardly therefrom is an elongated arm c that extends forward to near the glass front of the window. These brackets (l are preferably placed at opposite ends of the window-frame as shown and the upper edges of the forward ends of their arms are provided with a series of transverse slots a that form bearings in which are journaled a plurality of window curtains D of the roller-shade type.

Curtains D are preferably made of black or other dark-colored opaque window-shade material and have suitable lettering d cut in the same representing the matter to which it is desired to call attenticn. At the rearmost lportion of brackets C the arms thereof are each provided with a transverse slot c in which the journals of a roller shade E bear'- ing white or other light-reflecting material are mounted, and which, when pulled down will cover and act as a reliecting screen across the entire rear wall of the window. Extending longitudinally from side to side of the floor of the window is a series of suit able parallel cleats or narrow strips F that are provided, about midway their length with a suitable hook f that is adapted to be secured to the end of the curtain when the same is pulled down.

Projecting downwardly from about the central portion of the ceiling is the burner Gr of a suitable illuminating agent such for example as an electric light that is preferably provided with a reflector that throws the light against the white screen curtain at the rear of the window. Now, when one of the opaque sign-curtains D is pulled down to the {ioor of the window and secured to its respective cleat, the rays of light from the lamp reflected from the rear screen will be projected through the cut-out portions in` the sign curtains and can easily be read from the outside of the window.

Should the window be provided with side glasses the same may be closed with a single curtain g which may be either of the refleeting screen type or a sign curtain, as may be found desirable. However, should these ends not be provided with glass but be closed by panels H (Fig. 3) the same may be provided with a series of substantially U-shaped tracks or guides 7L in which the extended ends of the strengthening rails usually at the lower edges of the curtains, may be moved up and down.

By the above construction it will be seen that, on account of the intense reflection obtainable from the white screen at the rear reecting material, journaled near the rear end of said brackets, an illuminant in fro-nt of said latter curtain, a sign bearing roller shade curtain mounted at the front end of said brackets, and guide strips on the sides of said window inwhich the edges of said curtains are adapted to move.

2. The combination with a window having a transparent front, of curtain supporting brackets extending from the front to the rear thereof, a roller-shade having a curtain of reflecting material, Journaled near the rear end of said brackets, a sign bearing rollershade curtain mounted at the front end of sa-i'd brackets, and illuminating means mounted between said curtains.

3. The combination with a window having a transparent front, of curtain-supporting brackets extending from the front to the rear thereof, a roller-shade having a curtain of reflecting material, mounted near the rear end of said brackets, a plurality of opaque roller-shade curtains each having suitable lettering out through the same and mounted near the forward ends of said brackets,

illuminating means mounted between said reflecting curtain and said sign bearing curtains, and parallelstri'ps extending longitudinally of said window and provided with hooks for retaining said curtains in their lowered positions.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of January, A. D., 1909.

JOHN H. FITCH. [n s] lVitnesses E. K. LUNDY, M. E. MARTIN.

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