US1563290A - Combination shade bracket - Google Patents

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Nov. 24, 1925- 5 0 A. E. PHIPPS COMBINATION SHADE BRACKET Filed Aug. 1922 Patented Nov. 24, 1925.

ARTHUR Enwrn was. or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

cons-marrow SHADE BRACKET.

Application filed ugust 26, 1922; Serial No. 584,589.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known. that I, ARTHUR E. PHIPPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination Shade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain fixtures, and more particularly to combined shade roller brackets and curtain supports of a character such that there shall be a SlliClZlblG adjustment of the shade roller and curtain holding means which will readily adapt my invention for use to windows of varying sizes.

One of the objects of my invei i-tion is, to provide means in a device of tl iischaracter, by which a shade roller and curtain holding device can be readily and conveniently mounted to a window casing in such a manner that the shade roller and curtain holding parts shall have a laterally adjustable facility which will enable shade rollers and curtains of varying sizes to be conveniently and, operably mounted therein and which also permits an adjustment of these parts to and from the window frame and casing, in order to properly mount shade rollers of different diameters and position curtains at different distances from a window frame. Another object is to provide a device of this character which shall be of few parts, of simple construction of the desired adjustability and which may be readily attached to or detached from a window casing and which may have other advantages and results not specifically set forth, but which may appear in the following specification.

Referring to the drawings in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my device applied to a window casing.

Fig. 2 is an end View looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detailed perspective view of the supporting bracket and means to lock a slidable supporting bar therein.

Referring more particularly to the drawings 1 is the casing of the window, and to this I securely mount supporting brackets 2 by screws 3, or other suitable fastening means, inserted into openings 1- provided in an angularly bent portion or foot 5 of the brackets 2- The brackets 2 are, on opposite distances from the foot or base 5.

edges, provided with downwardly bent parallel flanges 6, in which are opposite pairs of slots 7 and 8, disposed at different I so proide these slots 7 and 8 in order to differently position from the window or casing, a supporting bar 9-, which I insert therein and adapt it to. have a slidable relation there to, in order to permit of the mounting of rollers of different lengths and diameter and to differently position a curtain close to or further from a window frame. This bar 9 is preferably of metal and of substantially rectangular cross sectional shape, corre sponding to the shape of the slots 7 and: 8 in which it is adapted to move; In the bracket I provide threaded opening 10 into which I insert the screw stop 11, which is adapted to clamp; the supporting her 9 and lock it in any position of adjustment in reference to the bracket 2'. A similar aperture 10 is provided in which a screw, similarto that indicated at 11 may be inserted to lock the supporting bar 9 when it is placed in the slots corresponding in position to; this aperture. Near the: outer end of the supporting bar 9? I provide a depending bracket 12,'havin-g a slot or aperture 13, adapted to receive and hold the pivot or pin 1a, on which the curtain roller 15 is adapted? to rotate. Gnc of these brackets mounted on the bar 9 is provided with the usual central aperture for the reception of one of the shade roller pivots while that mounted on the bar 9 provided to carry the opposite end of the roller, is provided with a closed ended longitudinal slot which receives the pivot at that end of the roller containing the roller actuating spring. This pivot end may be operably mounted therein by slidably moving the bar 9 in its supporting bracket 2 until the pivot head registers in this slot and is securely held between its sides. Other than this difference, the members of my apparatus are alike for the opposite sides of the window casing, on the opposite sides of which, one each of the supporting brackets 2 is mounted carrying the slidable supporting bar 9. The brackets 12 are suitably fastened to the supporting bar 9 by screws, bolts 16 or any other suitable fastening means. At the extreme end of the supporting bars 9 which carries the brackets 12 I provide a laterally outwardly extending arm 17 which is made up of a pair of expansible and compressible spring fingers 1?, These spring fingers are securely held at their inner ends in the proper operative position to the bar 9 by screws or bolts 18 or any other suitable fastening means. These spring fingers are provided to conveniently and removably carry and support a curtain holder 19, which is provided with a tubular end portion 20 adapted to encase the spring fingers 17'" and be held thereon by the gripping action. of these fingers in such a manner as will effect a secure retention of the curtain holder, and which will at the same time permit of the ready removal of the curtain holder when a curtain is not desired to be held thereby. The curtain holder 19 at its outer end of a usual type, being provided with a loop or hook like portion for the convenient reception of a curtain pole or other curtain earrying member.

It will be understood that my device is intended to be formed in two separately applicable sections, one of which is positioned at the opposite lateral sides of a window casing. Since windows are. of varying width, it will be apparent that by reason of the lateral adjustability of my supporting bar 9 in the bracket 2, when the bracket 2 is positioned I can adapt my apparatus to the holding of shade rollers or curtain carrying members of varying lengths. It will also be obvious that when the supporting bar 9 is placed in proper position to hold a shade roller, it may be locked thereat by tightening the screw 11 in the bracket 2. It is. also obvious that because I have provided two pairs of slots in the bracket, 2 at different distances from its foot or base, I can by inserting the supporting arm 9 in one or the other pairs of these slots, position the shade roller holding means at different distances from the window casing so that rollers of different diameters may be conveniently held to the window, and curtains may be arranged. at different dis tances therefrom.

It will be obvious from the foregoing that I have provided a device for holding shade rollers and curtains that is of few parts, of compact construction, simple and easy of operation and attachment for use, and which is capable of a wide degree of adjustability in order to universally adapt my fixture to use upon windows of any dimension, and which has other advantages and results not herein specifically set forth.

Although I have shown and described one form of embodiment of my invention yet I do not wish to be limited thereby for it is obvious that changes may be made in the arrangement, combination construction and organization of )arts without departing from the scope o my invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A combination shade bracket comprising an attaching member having a horizontally extending body portion, depending flanges along the side edges of said body portion, said flanges provided with a plurality of pairs of aligning openings, and a carrying bar adjustable through an aligning pair of said openings and movable from one pair of openings into the other to regulate the distance outwardly from the wall to which the bracket is attached.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ARTHUR EDWIN PHIPPS.

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