Improvements in Brackets for Window Curtain Rods and Bands.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1396
Complete Specification Left. 7th Jan., 1897--Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Window Curtain Rods and Bands.
I, ARTHUR NEWMAN, of 62, Tenby Street North, in the City of Birmingham,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to those brackets which are used for carrying the
horizontal curtain rods and metal bands or strips of those short curtains which are
used on the lower parts of windows. These curtains are required to be stretched
tightly between the rods at the top and bottom of the curtain but as the said brackets
are usually immovably fixed to the window frame or sash frame the proper stretching
of the curtain is difficult but this difficulty is removed by my invention which is
carried out as follows:-Instead of the brackets which carry the ends of the upper
rod or band being immovable as heretofore, I fit each of the said brackets on a
corresponding vertical bed fixed to the window frame or sash frame, up and down
which bed the bracket can slide and the position be adjusted and fixed by means of
a screw carried by the bed engaging with a nut or lug on the bracket so that by
moving upwardly the brackets with the rod carried thereby any desired tension of
the curtain can be obtained and the curtain can readily be removed by first sliding
the bracket downwardly so as to release the tension on the curtain.
Instead of employing a screw or nut for adjusting the bracket along the bed and
fixing the bracket in any desired position, I may employ any other suitable means
such for instance as a spring or other catch on the bracket which will engage with
any one of a series of holes notches teeth or projections on the bed and thus allow
of the bracket being moved up and down the bed and secure the bracket in the
desired position.
Dated this 4th day of Annil 1896
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Window Curtain Rods and Bands.
I, ARTHUR NEWMAN, of 62, Tenby Street North, in the City of Birmingham,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to those brackets which are used for carrying the
horizontal curtain rods and metal bands or strips of those short curtains which are
required to be stretched tightly between the rods at the top and bottom of the curtain
but as the said brackets are usually immovably fixed to the window frame or sash
frame the proper stretching of the curtain is difficult but this difficulty is removed

page_text: by my invention which is carried out as I will describe by referring to the
accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 is a general view of a window curtain rod and band bracket complete
constructed in accordance with this invention:
Fig. 2 shews the bracket proper and its operating screw separately;
Fig. 3 is a side view partly in section and
Fig. 4 is a sectional plan of a modified form of my invention and
Fig. 5 shews separately a part of the window curtain rod and band bracket
illustrated by Figs. 3 and 4.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the bracket proper formed
with a projecting part which is shaped at a' to receive the upper curtain rod B and
is also made with a cross slot a to receive the metal band or strip C at the front of
the curtain rod. Instead of the bracket A being made immovable as heretofore I fit 1
the bracket A to slide up and down a vertical bed D which (as by screws through the
screw holes d' d2) is fixed to the window frame or sash frame, and in order to slide
the bracket proper A and fix it in any desired position I provide the screw E which
fits in bearings in the top d' and in the bottom d' of the bed D and passes through
a nut or lug a formed at the back of the sliding bracket A so that by turning this
screw E the position of the bracket A can be adjusted along the slide D. It is to
be understood that there is a similar sliding bracket A. bed D and screw E at the
other end of the curtain rod B and metal band C so that by turning the two screws E
in the proper direction the brackets A with the curtain rod B and metal band C
carried thereby will be raised and any desired tension obtained on the curtain F. The
curtain F and its rod B can readily be removed by first turning the screws E
in the opposite direction so as to slide the brackets A downwardly and release the
tension on the curtain.
Instead of employing the screw E and nut or lug a for adjusting the bracket A
along the bed and fixing the bracket in any desired position as above described
and illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2, I may employ any other suitable means for fixing
the bracket A in any desired position on the bed D such for instance as a spring or
other catch on the bracket A which will engage with any one of a series of holes
notches or projections on the bed D) and thus secure the bracket in the desired position
on the bed D. An arrangement of this kind is shewn by Figs. 3, 4 and 5 where the
bracket A is made with two catch teeth at a which engage with teeth d³ formed on
the face of the bed D. At the back of the bracket A there is a projection a to
which is rivetted a spring a' which bears against the back of the bed D to keep the
bracket A in contact with the bed D. By first tilting the bottom of the bracket A
forward so as to disengage the teeth at a from the teeth d on the face of the bed D
the bracket A can be moved up and down as desired and when released the teeth a' a
on the bracket A will engage with the teeth on the face of the bed and thus secure
the bracket A in the desired position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a window curtain rod and band, bracket the combination of a vertical metal
bed adapted to fix to the window frame, a bracket proper adapted to carry one end of
the curtain rod and metal band and to slide along said bed to adjust the tension of
the curtain and means for fixing the bracket to the bed in any desired position
to maintain the tension on the curtain, all substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. In a window curtain rod and band bracket the combination of a vertical metal
bed adapted to fix to the window frame, a bracket proper adapted to carry one end of
the curtain rod and metal band and to slide along said bed to adjust the tension
of the curtain, and a screw carried by said bed and engaging with a nut or lug of
said bracket so arranged that by turning the screw the bracket will be moved

page_text: along the bed to any desired position to maintain the tension on the curtain or to
enable the curtain rod to be removed from the bracket, all substantially as hereinbefore
set forth.
3. In a window curtain rod and band bracket the combination of the vertical metal
bed D adapted to fix to the window frame, the bracket proper A adapted to carry one
end of the curtain rod and metal band and to slide along the bed D to adjust the
tension of the curtain, and the screw E carried by said bed and engaging with the
nut or lug a³ of the bracket A so that by turning the screw E the bracket will
be moved along to any desired position to maintain the tension on the curtain
or to enable the curtain rod to be removed from the bracket, all substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
4. In a window curtain rod and band bracket the combination with the vertical
metal bed A adapted to fix to the window frame and made with teeth on its face,
the bracket proper A connected to the said bed and adapted to carry one end of the
curtain rod and metal band and to slide along the bed D to adjust the tension of the
curtain and made with a tooth or teeth at as to engage with the teeth on the face of
the bed D to maintain the tension on the curtain all substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by Figs. 3, 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 6th day of January 1897
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.