US731540A - Window-shade bracket. - Google Patents

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No. 731,540. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903. A. BRZYKGY. WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

APPLIOATIOI FILED JANH24, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

No. 731,540.` PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903..-

A. BRZYKGY.

WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 24, 1903. l

N0 MODEL, 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2..

' UNITED STATESN Patented June. 23, 1903.

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PATIENT TO SIMON MILLER, or

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

WINDW-SHADE BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 731,540, dated June 23, 1903. Application iled January 24, 1908. Serial No. 140,402. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ANTONI BRZYKOY, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vindow Shade Brackets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

Myinvention has for its object to provide an improved window-bracket especially adapted to supportin various diiferentways the rollers of window-shades.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafterdescribed, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing portions of a Window-frame and a sash and a shadesupported from said frame by a pair of my improved brackets. Figi 2 is a vertical section on the line m2 :r2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of one ofthe window-brackets. Fig. 4 is a view in end elevation showing portions of the bracket which coperate with the bracket shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of that part of the bracket which is shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view corresponding to Fig. l, but showing the bracket applied in another Way. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section On the line x7 mi of Fig. G, and Fig. 8 illustrates still anotherway of applying the window-bracket to the frame of a window to support the shade-roller.

The numeral l indicates a Window-frame, the numeral 2 the upper sash, the numeral 3 a shade-roller, and the numeral 4 a windowshade.

Each bracket is made up of a rod d and an adjustable head or section b. The rod a has screw-threads at one end and at its other end preferably has a laterally-bent portion d', which will serve to support the end of a curtain-rod. The head Z1 is formed from a flat piece of metal, which is preferably stamped and bent to the desired form and has a split clamping-sleeve b', which surrounds the rod ct and is clamped to the body of said section ZJ by a short nutted bolt c, having, preferably, a iiattened head or thumb piece c', by means of which it may be readily turned to clamp the sleeve b tightly onto said screw-rod or to release the same at will.

At its projecting end the adjustable bracketsection b is formed with a pair of elongated seats or slots b2, that intersect each other at a right angle. Approximatelyin line with the said notches b2 said section b is provided with a thin lug or ear b3, that projects from the face thereof at an angle of ninety degrees and is provided with intersecting slots or seats h, that correspond to the slots b2 both in arrangement and function,.as will presently be noted.

The bracket just specically described is best shown in Figs. 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8. This bracket is intended to support that end of the shade-roller which is provided with the liattened trunnion of the said roller. This trunnion, as is Well known, is connected to the roller bya torsional spring and must be seated so that it affords a base of reaction for the said roller. Furthermore, in the standard automatic spring-roller the construction of` the escape-dog is such that the said flattened trunnion 5 must always be set edgewise in a substantially vertical plane. At its other end the roller 3 is provided with a round trunnion 6. The bracket which supports this end of the roller is like the bracket just described, except that instead Of the slot 5 it is provided with round perforations b5 and b, which are adapted to receive the round trunnion 6.

In Figs. l and 2 the threaded ends of the rods a are shown as screwed into the inner faces of the window-casing, and the adjustable sections b are turned vertically downward, with the attened trunnion 5 of the shaderoller inserted in the vertically-disposed member of the seats b2. In this posi'- tion it is evident that the said movable members b may be adjusted any desired distance 4from the window-casing and the depending ends thereof may be swung laterally to some extent, so as to properly space the depending IOO ends of the said members b. I/Vhen the brackets are applied as just noted, the round trun-l ---\nion 6 of the roller is seated in the perforation 7 of the coperating bracket.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the rods a are shown as screwed into the inner or opposing faces of tho window-frame, and in this case the flat trunnion 5 ofthe shade-roller is placed in the vertically-disposed member of the slots or seats bL oi the ear b3 of the cooperating bracket.

In Fig. 8 the rods a are shown as vertically disposed and screwed upward into the overhead portion of the Window casing or frame l.

It will thus be seen that the bracket above described may be applied to a Window-frame in a great many different ways, and hence may be adapted to allnost all conditions. The parts of the bracket may be quickly adjusted and securely held in any set adjustment.

The bracket is of extremely small cost, is of simple construction, has very few parts, and is eicient for the purposes had in View.

That I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is asfol-A l. In a Window-bracket, the combination with a screw-rod ct, of the head l) having the intersecting slots b2, and the split clampingsleeve b', said sleeve b' Working adjustably on said rod and adaptedto be clamped to the saine, by a nutted screw c, substantially as doscribed.

2. Ina Window-bracket, the combination

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