Patent ID: 6382295
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: E06B,Y10S

Abstract:
A bracket system capable of selectively supporting a curtain rod and a mini-blind in a window and being convertible between a first mode in which it supports a mini-blind and a second mode in which it supports a curtain rod, the bracket system including:a bracket adapted to be mounted to a window casement which frames the window, the bracket having a rear wall, a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall, to define a chamber which has an open front and an open side, the chamber being sized to receive a header of the mini-blind; said top and bottom walls of said bracket having opposed channels formed to face each other; and a curtain rod adapter having a plate sized to extend between the top and bottom walls of the bracket and to be received in the channels and a member sized and shaped to receive an end of a curtain rod, said curtain rod receiving member extending generally perpendicularly from said plate.