US1804669A - Curtain fixture and supporting brackets therefor - Google Patents

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May 12,1931. J.'H. BOYE 1,804,669

CURTAIN FIXTURE AND SUPPORTING BRACKETS THEREFOR Filed Jan. 16, 1929 2. Sheets-Sheet l .RdenZEfi 112,655 h Boga,

J. H. BOYE 1,804,669

CURTAIN FIXTURE AND SUPPORTING BRACKETS THEREFOR May 12, 1931.

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jg @W Patented May 12, 1931 UNITED sra'rns ra'rkanr caries JAMES H. BOYE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES H. BOYLE- MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS CURTAIN FIXTURE AND surron'rine BRACKETS THEREFOR Application filed January 16, 1929. Serial No. 332,862.

This invention relates to the art of ourtain fixtures or hangers, and has reference more particularly to a type of curtain fixture wherein the fixture brackets include upstanding hooks, and the curtainrod is formed with inwardly directed end portions the top walls or flanges of which are apertured to engage over said hooks and thus removably support the rod on the latter. Typical examples of curtain fixtures of this general type are illustrated in Letters Patent to Hayward No. 1,003,403, September 12,1911 and to Kirsch No. 1,187,914, June 20, 1916.

One object of the present invention is to provide a fixture of this type whichv will better facilitate both the application and removal of the curtain rod.

Curtain fixtures of this type are also, for the most part, provided with various forms of stop devices intended to prevent accidental dislodgment of the rod from the brackets by a simple upward movement of the rod, and compel the rod to be tilted upwardly more or less on the brackets before it can be removed. Another object of my invention is to provide a simplified and improved structure that will afford the described stop effect. p

Other objects of the invention are to provide an improved structure that will not require the rod to be tilted upwardly to a vertical position of theinwardly bent ends of the rod before the latter can be applied to or removed from the brackets, which is often impossible on account of projecting molding on the window frame above the brackets; and to provide a curtain fixture of extremely simple and inexpensive construction. I V

With these objects in view,'I have designed a novel and improved form or shape of rod-supporting hook designed for cooperation with the apertured end portion of a rod in such a way that the novel shape of the hook, combined with arelative spacing of the hook-engaging aperture in the rod from the end of the latter will guide the ends of the rod during application of the latter so that the apertures will be brought into-register with the tips of the hooks, and so that, when it is desired to remove the rod from the hooks,'the apertures will be guided off the tipsof thehooks by a simple upward swing of the rod, thus leaving the latter free to be lifted and removed.

Other objects and attendant advantages of the invention will be apparent to persons familiar with devices of this class from the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which I have illustrated a simple and practical embodiment of the invention, and wherein g Fig.1 is a perspective elevation, showing the curtain fixture mounted on the top frame bar of a window;

Fig. '2 is a front elevation, showing the curtain rod tilted upwardly to applying and removing position corresponding to that illustrated in Fig. 4:; V

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 6;

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are progressive views of the bracket and end portion of the rod, showing respectively starting, intermediate, and final or rest positions of the rod relatively to its supporting bracket. r

. Referring to the drawings, 10 may designate the top bar ofa window frame on which the curtain fixture is customarily mounted. 11 and 12 designate the two sections of a telescoping curtain rod of the well known fiat type, each section having rearwardly directed end portions 11 and 12 lying at right angles to the main telescoping portions, and both sections having the usual hollow top and bottombeads or flanges 13 and 14:. The top and bottom beads of the end portions of the rod sections are formed with i -taching plate 17 mountedon the frame piece 10 by screwsi18, and a forwardly and up and rearwardly directed tip portion 20. con-.

tinuous with said shank portion. It will be observed that the shank portion 19 formed with a downwardly and rearwardly inclined inner edge 21, while the tip portion is formed with an oppositely inclined inner edge 22 which meets the edge portion 21 slightly above a point designated by 23, whichlatter point constitutes the point of rest or support for the upper edge portion or head of the curtain rod when the latter is in horizontal or working position. The inclined portions 21 and 22 together create a concave formation of the inner edge oft-he hook.

It will further be observed that the apertures l5 and 16 of the rod are spaced from the end'of the latter a distance approximately equal to the distance from the inner point of the tip. section 20 to the lower end of the inclined edge 21, this being evident from Fig. 4; and by reference to Fig. 6 it will be seen that the distance of the aperture from the rod end is equal to the horizontal distance from the supporting point 23 of the hook to the attaching plate 17 of the bracket.

In applying the rod to the bracket, the rod sections 12 and 13 are first adjusted to make the length of the rod correspond to the spacing of the two brackets, and, with the rod tilted upwardly to approximately the position indicated in, Figs. 2 and 4, the ends of the rod arms 11 and 12 are entered over the bracket hooks. By the downwardly and rearwardly inclined edges 21 the ends of the arms are guided downwardly and rear wardly, coming to rest at the junctions of the inclined edges 21 with the attachment plate 17 as shown in Fig. 4. In this position the upper apertures in the rod register with the tip portions 20 of the bracket hooks.

The rod is then lowered through the intermediate position shown in Fig. 5fto the final or horizontal position shown in Figs. 1

and 6. In passing from the position-shown in Fig. 5 to that shown in Fig. 6, the rear edge of the aperture 15 first comes to rest on the bracket hook at or slightly below the point 23, and thereupon the inner end portion of the rod arm rocks upwardly on this point as a fulcrum to the horizontal position shown in Fig. 6, and at the same time the end of the lower bead or flange 14 moves into contact with the lower portion of the concaveinner edge.

attachment plate 17. The rod is thus supported in tension at the points 23 of the bracket hooks and in compression at the points of contact of the lower beads or flanges with the attachment plate. And since the distance from the tips of the hooks to the attachment plates is substantially less than the distance from the rest points 23 to the attachment plates, the rod cannot be displaced accidentally by a simple bodily upward movement, but can be removed only by tilting it upwardly and then lifting it above the brackets. The described structure also facilitates the removal of the rod since a simple lifting movement on the front sections 11 and 12 causes the ends of the arms to first assume the position shown in Fig. 5, while a further upward tilting carries the apertures clear of the tips of the hooks, as shown in Fig. 4, enabling the rod to. be. bodily liftedaway from the brackets. During this latter movement, the rear edges of the apertures cannot catch on the tips of the hooks because the lower ends of the rod arms are rocking on the lower ends of the inner edges of the hooks and the inclined edges 21 prevent the lower ends of the rod from moving forwardly during the rocking movement.

,From the foregoing it will be seen that the described construction entirely obviates the necessity of bringing the rod to, and holding it in, a special position to secure registration of the apertures with the tips of the hooks when applying the rod, and also the necessity of pushing the rod bodily inwardly to clear the hooks, when removing the rod. It also avoids the'necessity of tilting the rod upwardly to a vertical position of the arms to apply and remove the rod, which is often impossible on account of overhanging molding on the top 'bar of the win dow frame.

I claim 1. A curtain fixture, comprising in combination a pair of rod-supporting brackets each comprising a base plate and a forwardly projecting upstanding hook having a concave inner edge extending from the tip of the hook to said base plate, and a curtain rod having rearwardly directed end portions formed with apertured top walls to engage over said hooks, said apertures being spaced from the ends of said rod a distance approximately equal to the distance from the tip of a hook to the lower end of its 2. In a curtain fixture, the combination of a pair of rod-supporting brackets each comprising a base plate and a forwardly projecting upstanding hook thereon having a concave inner edge extending from the tip of the hook to. said base plate, and a curtain 'rod rearwardly directed end portions. forme with apertured top walls to engage over said hooks, said apertures being spaced from the ends of said rod a distance approximately equal to the distance from the deepest point of said concave inner edge to the opposed base plate of the bracket. 1

3. As a new article of manufacture, a supporting bracket for a curtain rod comprising a base plate and a forwardly projecting hook on said base plate, said hook hav ing an upstanding shank portion adapted to support the curtain rod and a rearwardly directed tip portion adapted to pass through an aperture in the end portion of the curtain rod; said shank portion having a downwardly and rearwardly inclined inner edge adapted to guide the lower end of said rod downwardly and rearwardly to the base of said hook during application of the rod to the bracket. Y

4. As a new article of manufacture, a supporting bracket for a curtain rod comprising a flat base plate and a forwardly projecting hook on said base plate, said hook having an upstanding shank portion adapted to support the curtain rod and a rearwardly directed tip portion adapted to pass through an aperture in the end portion of the curtain rod; said shank portion having an inclined inner edge adapted to guide the lower end of the rod downwardly and rearwardly to the base of said hook during application of the rod to the bracket, and said tip portion cooperating with said base plate to prevent removal of the rod by vertical movement of the latter when in its horizontal position.

JAMES H. BOYE.

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