US1488257A - Curtain rod and bracket - Google Patents

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c. W. KlRSCH CURTAIN ROD VAND BRACKET) Maw 25 1924.

Filed Jan. 27. 1923 Iruf 61 1;)?

lf atented Mar. 25, 11.9241.

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CURTAIN BOD AND BRACKET.

Application filed January 27, 1923 Serial No. 615,223.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. KIRSGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sturgis, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Michigan, have invented .certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain Rods and Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide certain new and useful improvements in curtain and drapery rods and particularly of the two-piece extensible telescope type which are very commonly used and. which have their respectively opposite ends of different sizes in transverse sectional dimensions.

The particular object of the present invention is to provide brackets for engaging and supporting the curtain rods in their normal positions on window frames which will not only fimly support said rods in a horizontal position but will also hold them so firmly in position as to prevent their being accidentally disengaged from the brackets by accidental pulls and sudden releases of curtains or draperies suspended from said rods and causing the spring of the rods which may effect their accidental release.

The present invention operates on sub: stantially the same principle and embodies more or less the feature or features of the invention described and claimed in my copending application for Letters Patent filed the 23rd day of November, 1922, Serial No. 602,904.

The present greferred embodiment in the accompanying rawings; in which- Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a curtain rod of the general type referred to suitably engaged with and supported by its brackets;

Fig. 2 is a detail transverse section of same on the line 2-2 of'Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. t is a view similar'to Fig. 3, showing the position of the curtain rod preparatory to its position as shown in Fig. 3 when being mounted on its brackets; and

Fig. 5 is a detail section on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

While I have illustrated in the accompanying drawings a two-piece telescopic curtain rod of the type that is generally referred to .as C-shaped in cross-section,-it will be understood that the invention is applicable to hollow curtain rods'of any soinvention-is illustrated in its- 'called tubular telescopic types, the illustration of the C-shape being chosen because it has become the most popular on the market. I

By reference to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that the two members A and B of thev r 0d are of different cross-sectional dimen.-' 'sions, the portion A, which might be referred to as the female member, being of a'size adapted to readily telescopically receive what might be termed the male member B. Both members A andvB are provided in their respective end portions with perforations C in their top and bottom edges, by means of which saidmembers may be engaged with the brackets therefor, the said end portions of said rods containing said perforations extending at right-angles to the main or middle portion of said members A and B which are telecopically engaged with each other.

The brackets consist preferably of wall lates D from which a vertical fin or flange projects, the latter being equip ed at its upper end with a projection F a apted to engage in a perforation C and constituting What might be termed a hook from. which the rod is suspended. The perforation C is so disposed relatively to the extreme end of the curtain rod member, as to leave metal between the said extreme end and the nearest adjacent wall perforation equal, or sub-. stantially equal, in length to the distance between the vertical edge of said projection F opposing the plate D and the face of said plate. The ends of the members A and B eing cut off square, that is, perpendicularly to the longitudinal wall thereof, it will be obvious that said edge when the members are engaged with the fin E will abut snugly against the plate D with its lower end por tion bearing against said plate, whereas the wall engaged with the projection F will be more or less suspended from said projection, the rod being thus adapted to be held so that its arms project perpendicularly from the face of the plate D.

It is desirable to provide means whereby the rods may be so firmly engaged with its supporting brackets as to prevent any rat tling thereof or any accidental disengage-- -me-nt of the same from the brackets by a flection of the rods by a pull on the curtains and a sudden release of such flection which,

in some instances, may cause the rods to spring upwardly to substantially the posisubstantially ,tion shown in Fig 1 4, and such flection may further cause a sengagement of the projection'" F from the perforation through which it is passed, thus causing the rod to be disengaged from one or both its supporting brackets. Strong drafts may sometimes also efi'ect some vibration of the rod and this ,might be annoying. The present invention therefore consists more particularly in so forming and providing dimensions of the fin E of the .:'brackets as to cause the lower end thereof to firmly engage the wall of the bracket op-'. posing that containingthe perforation in which the projection F is engaged so as to *hold said rod very firmly in position. Pref- Z-crably the fin E is provided at its lower end with a rounded projection G which is so spaced from the wall plate B as to engage in the perforation C in the lower edge of the rod when the latter is brought from the position shown in Fig. 4 to that shown in Fig.

3. The position shown in Fig. 4 is that which is substantially normally required to efl'ec't'engagementof the projection F in the perforation or openings Cin the upper edge of the rod, whereupon it may be readily swung to the position shown in Fig. 3, but during such swing the lower wall of the rod will be flexed with respect to the upper wall' thereof to spring over said projection E. It will be understood of course that it is not essential for the projection G to enga e in the perforation, as a mere flexing of the lower wall with respect to the upper wall of with respect to the window casing than would otherwise be the case.

The depth of the fin E must be such that it will firmly engage in the female member A of the rod and also, and of course still more firmly, .engage in the end of the male portion B of the rod, the upper and lower walls of the latter being flexed to a greater degree than those of the member A in elfecting engagement of the rod with its brackets, as will be obvious.

It will be apparent that in its broader aspects, the brackets illustrated and described herein, each disclose a supporting projection for engaging in the upper perforationof the rod, and another projection for engaging in the lower perforationof the rod. The lastmentioned projection functions not only as above specifically described but also to prevent apivotal movem nt of the arm of the rod, when only one of the two arms thereof is engaged with its bracket as sometimes 00- curs when the rod is being mounted by an individual on a window-casing of a width too great to permit both arms to be readily simultaneous y engaged with both brackets. In such case the one arm engaged with its bracket is subjected to a tortional strain which, except where other than light lace "or similar curtains are suspended from the brackets as would tend to effect its disengagement from the latter.

I claim as my invention;

1. A curtain rod including two substantially parallel, open ended arms adapted to be supported in a horizontal plane, wall brackets adapted to be engaged with the free ends of said arms, the latter and said brackets equipped with inter-engaging formations above and below the horizontal axis of said arms whereby to effect suspension of said arms from the brackets-at points in the top wall portions of said free ends of said arms, said inter-engaging formations adapt-- ed to permit a pivotal movement of said arms from a horizontal position upwardly to effect disengagement from, and vice verse to effect engagement with said brackets, said means on said brackets interchange abl engageable with the formations of both sai arms, the inter-engagement of the lower formations of said arms and brackets when the latter are horizontally disposed serving to hold .said arms firmly in said horizontal position and yieldably resisting free initial pivotal movement thereof from'their normal horizontal position to eifect'disengagementas aforesaid.

2. The combination with a curtain rod member including an arm adapted to be normally supported to project horizontally outwardly from and perpendicularly to the face of a window-casing or the like, said arm open at the end opposed to said face and having perforations in the uppermost and lowermost portions of its wall, respectively, adjacent said open'end, a supporting device for said arm including a surface portion against which the open end of said arm is ada ted to abut. when in its normal position, a 00k element ada ted to engage in the upper perforation or supporting said arm and maintaining it normally abutted against said surface portion, said arm through an arc upwardly from its normal foration I position, and a projection adapted to enter the open end of said am and engage in the. lower perforation for yicldably resisting pivotal movement of said arm and preventing disengagement thereof from said book when in its normal position.

3. A curtain fixture including a rod termiigzting in. open-ended arms, each provi ed with perforations in its upper and lower wall portions, respectively, contiguous to the free ends of said arms, and supporting brackets for said arms, each comprising a wall plate against which the open ends of said arms are adapted to abut, a flange on said plateequipped at its upper end with a projection adapted to engage in the upper perforation of the arm and coacting with said plate to'efiect suspension and support of said. arm perpendicularly of said plate and permitting pivotal movement of the same relatively to the plate, and a rounded projection at the lower end of said flange adapted to effect temporary expansion of the open end of the arm as the latter is swung to or from its normal perpendicular position relatively to said plate and engage in said lower perforation as said arm contracts upon attaining said normal position, 'to thereby latch said arm to said bracket. I

4 VA curtain fixture including a substantially tubular rod terminating in substantially parallel open ended arms each provided in its uppermost wall portion contiguous to its open end with-a perforation, a wall bracket for each arm equipped with a projecting hook for engaging in said peror supporting sald arm, and int erengaging latch formations on said arm and said bracket disposed below said hook and perforation for firml but yieldably' holding said rod and'brac et against relative, movement on said hook and perforation as a fulcrum. V

5. A curtain fixture including a hollow curtain-rod having open ends, there being perforations in the upper and lower walls of said rod contiguous to said open ends, and supporting brackets for said rod including wall-plates each equipped with projections, one of the latter adapted to engage in'the perforation in the upper wall of the rod for supporting the same and preventing movement thereof away from the wall plate, and the other thereof adapted to engage] in the perforation in the lower wall for resisting pivotal or disengaging movement of said rod relatively to said rodsupporting projection.

curtain. rod terminating in substantially parallel open-ended arms extending substantially perpendicularly to the middle portion thereof and provided in its upper and lower wall portions, contiguous to the ends of said arms, with perforations, and supporting brackets for said rod including wall-plates, projections thereon including 6. A curtain fixture includinga hollow

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