US1909353A - Ornament fastener - Google Patents

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y 16, 1933- E. R. HUGHES ET AL 1,909,353

ORNAMENT FASTENER Filed April 20, 1932 PI .1 FIE-.E...

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EUCi-ENE R. Huqh'ss, ARTHUR H- BoRWlcI-f Patented May 16, 1933 UNITED STATES EUGENE R. HUGHES AND ARTHUR H. BORWIGKLOF HUNTINGTON PARK, CALIFORNIA,

PATENT "OFFICE A ASSIGNORS T JAMES C. HARRIS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA ORNAMENT Application filed April 20,

This invention relates to devices used for fastening ornaments to the ends of bars.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide an improved and simplified fastener Without set screws.

Another object is to provide a spring in the socket of the ornament shaped to snugly hold the ornament to an unfinished end of a rod.

Another object is to provide a socket, in the ornament to be fastened, with recesses whereby a spring can be snapped into a certain position within such a socket of the ornament to serve in fastening the ornament to the end of a bar.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal mid-sectional view through the end of an ornament having a rod end held in the socket of the ornament-end by a spring.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of an ornament fastener of animproved form.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section through a round bar with cut-outs into which ends of springs point.

Fig. 4 is a side view of a curtain rod with ornaments on the ends.

Ornaments 5 placed on the ends of a curtain rod 6 of a form illustrated in Fig. 4 are commonly secured by means of set-screws,

FASTENER 1932. Serial No. 606,418. o

spring 7 rest, thereby holding the spring in a certain aligned position to assure a pre-determined holding of the ornament on the end of a curtain-rod,

As a rule the frictional engagement of the A spring, the curved portion 10 being shaped so as to bind upon the sides of the curtain-rod, is fully suflicient to firmly hold the ornament to the curtain-rod, however, as an improvement, in the form illustrated in Fig. 2, extra notches 11 are provided in the curtain-rod 6 which makes it more sure that the ornament in this form will be held more positively aligned in a desired manner, and furthermore, necessitating a certain effort to remove this ornament.

Fig. 3 is merely shown to make it under-. stood that an ornament can be as securely held to a round bar as to a square or otherwise shaped bar, the bar 6 having also notches 11 into which the spring portions 1O are made to engage.

We claim:

1. A rod-end, a body to be fastened to the Y rod-end having a socket with recesses in and 7 near the open end of the socket, and a spring bent upon itself and having its free ends bent outwardly to engage in said recesses in the socket of said body and adapted to impinge upon the sides of the rod-end with portions close to the ends of the spring.

2. A rod-end, a body to be fastened to the rod-end having a socket with recesses in the socket, and a spring bent upon itself with the free ends bent outwardly to engage in said recesses in the socket of the body, the portions near the outwardly bent ends being curved inwardly beyond the doubled-up main portions of the spring adapted to en- I gage upon the sides of said rod-end for firmly holding the body on the rod-end.

3. A rod-end having notches cut crosswise in the opposite sides of the rod-end, a body having a socket with recesses in the oph p posite sides, and a spring bent upon itself with the free .ends bent outwardly to engage in said recesses in the socket of the body, the portions near the outwardly bent ends being curved inwardly beyond the doubled-up main [i] portions of the spring adapted to engage in said cross-cuts of the rod for firmly holding said body aligned on the rod.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our invention We have signed our names. {1Q EUGENE R. HUGHES.

ARTHUR H. BORWICK.

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