US1017765A - Curtain-fixture. - Google Patents

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H. KIEFER. CURTAIN FIXTURE.

APPLIUATION FILED NOV.1'7, 1910.

Patented Feb.20,1912;

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

H. KIEFER. CURTAIN FIXTURE. APPLIGATION FILED NOV. 17, 1910.

H. KIEFER.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.17, 1910.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

Application filed November 17, 1910. Serial No. 592,779.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY KIEFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in curtain fixtures, the object of the invention being to provide improved supports for ourtains at windows and doors, which will permit of any number of curtains such as shades, lace curtains, and portieres being supported from the same fixtures, and which fixtures provide mounting for cords to permit the manipulation of the curtains.

A further object is to provide improved curtain fixtures which will 'be simple and inexpensive in construction, neat and attractive in appearance, and strong and durable in use.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, is a perspective view illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2, isa view in side elevation of one of the fixtures. Fig. 3, is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 4, is a bottom plan view of the same. Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8, are detail perspective views of the several parts of the brackets illustrated in Figs. 2,

' 3, and 4. Figs. 9, 10, and 11 are views slmilar to Figs. 2,. 3, and 4, but of the other fixture, and Figs. 12, 13, 14, and 15, are detail perspective views of the brackets shown in Figs. 9, 10, and 11.

1, represents an ordinary window frame and 2, 2, are my improved fixtures which are located at the upper ends of the frame 1.

Each of these fixtures comprises an outwardly projecting bar 3 which is fixed to or integral with base plates 4, secured against the frame 1 by screws 5. At the free ends of these bars 3, upwardly projecting integral tongues 6' are located to receive screw eyes 7 on curtain poles 8, the latter adapted to supportportieres or other heavy draperies 9. These portieres may 'of course, be supported in various ways, but are shown held back by ornamental cords 10. The brackets 11, 12, and 13, 14, on these fixtures 2 are difierently constructed and will be hereinafter separately described, the exact arrangement of these brackets may of course be varied to suit conditions, the arrange: ment shown being merely one preferable form.

Referring to the left hand fixture as shown in detail in Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, upon which brackets 11 and 12 are mounted, these brackets are both composed of sheet metal strips. Bracket 11 is stamped from a sheet metal blank into a frame 15 shown in detail in Fig. 7, having inwardly bent tongues 16 stamped from the metal and forming a bridge registering with openings 17 in the sides of the bracket through which the bar 3 is passed. The upper portion of this bracket is made with a screw-threaded opening 18 to'accommodate a screw eye 19 to clamp the bracket on the bar and on the lower free ends of the bracket a journal pin 20 is mounted, and supports pulleys 21 separated by a partition 22. Bracket 12 comprises two U-shaped members 23 and 24,

'member 24 being provided with openings 25 to receive a bar 3, and also to receive a cross bar 26. The member 23 is also positioned in the openings 25 of member 24, and is provided with a central screwthreaded opening 26 for the reception of a screw eye 27 to clamp the bracket on the bar. In the lower member 24 a horizontally disposed pulley 28 is mounted for a purpose which will hereinafter appear. The bracket 13 on the right hand fixture comprises two members 29 and 30. Member 29 is of inverted U-shape with openings 31 to receive the bar 3. Member 30 which is also positioned through the openings 31 is located againstzthe upper face of member 29, and said members 29 and 30 are provided with screw-threaded openings 32.to receive a screw eye 33 to clamp the bracket in place. The ends of member 30 are bent forming eyes 34 which, together with the screw eye 33, provide three eyes in a row on the bracket. The bracket 14 comprisesa single piece of sheet metal bent into general rectangular form as shown in Fig. 14, having an upwardly projecting tongue 35 and provided with registering openings 36 to receive bar 3. Between bar 3 and the bottom 37 of the bracket 14, a bar 38 is located, and a screw eye 39 is projected through openings in the bracket 14, and in the bar 38 and against the bar 3 to tightly clamp the bracket in place. On this screw eye 39 a horizontally positioned pulley 40 is located, and between the downwardly projecting members of bracket 13, vertically positioned parallel p'ulleystl are mounted.

42 represents rods which are adapted to connect the several tongues and eyes of the several brackets, and be variously positioned, as each one of these rods is provided at one end with an eye adapted to engage over any of the tongues of the several brackets, and the other ends of said rods are adapted to be positioned in the eyes of the brackets, hence these rods may be reversed as desired. On these rods 42, lace curtains L3, and a shade M, are mounted. These curtains and shades are operated by suitable draw strings or cords 45 passed over the several pulleys of the brackets in the desired manner to bring about the desired results by the manipulation of these cords.

By means of fixtures such as above set forth, together with the brackets thereon, I am enabled to support the shade, the lace curtains, and the heavy draperies or por' tieres in compact assemblage, so that they may be each independently operated so as to arrange the shade, curtains, and portieres in any desired manner at the Window or door.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described Without departing from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A device of the class described, consisting of a pair of brackets each comprising a horizontal bar and means for securing the same to a door or window frame, a slide mounted upon each of said bars, each of said slides comprising a U-shaped member having its parallel sides apertured to receive the bar and a second member resting on said bar and extending through said apertures, the ends of the last said members upon one slide being bent vertically upwardly and those upon the other being curved upwardly and inwardly forming eyes, rollers mounted in the lower portion of said U-shaped members, thumb screws extending through the last said members of said slides and impinging against said bars, and rods provided with eyes at one end to engage the said vertical upturned ends and the other ends of said rods adapted to extend through said eyes on the other slide, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HENRY KIEFER.

Witnesses:

S. W. FOSTER, C. E. Po'rrs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. 0.

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