Improvements connected with Brackets for Short Window Curtains and other Drapery.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1891-Accepter, 18th Apr., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Brackets for Short Window Curtains
and other Drapery.
1. Jos and Saba
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Ment of Essex Wharf. Canning
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Town. London, E., do hereby declare the nature of
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in at by the following statement :-
This invention has for object, the construction and employment of holders by
which bands or strips of metal can be fitted and held to window sashes and also the
rods by which short curtains can be retained in place except when they have to be
intentionally removed.
For the purpose of my invention. I make a bracket (attachable to a window sash)
with a slot in it, said slot having one opening in front and a lip at the lower part.
against which the hand can rest temporarily when placed in it, the bracket being
also provided with a moveable piece by which the curtain rod can be carried which
piece, when the band is in place, secures the band.
Where no band is required, the bracket is so made that the rod only can be fitted
and the moveable piece employed to lock it in place.
The brackets are in pairs and if desired only one of the pair may be so constructed,
the other being merely holders.
The invention will be understood by the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a pair of brackets, the band and the rod
being shown in dotted lines to indicate the position they occupy, say, across a
window for carrying a short blind, where the rod is hidden from view from the
outside, the moveable, or locking piece being pivotted to turn sideways.
Figure 2 is a perspective elevation of the bracket on the right hand side of
Figure 1 showing the moveable piece turned up and with one end wall to prevent
the rod being drawn out endwise, in this figure, as also in Figure 1, a portion of
the socket is in the bracket and part in the moveable piece.
Figure 3 is a corresponding elevation in which the moveable piece of one bracket
can be raised for the insertion of the band and the rod and then be allowed to drop
into position to lock both band and rod.
Figure 4 is a perspective elevation of a band and rod bracket, in which the
pivoted moveable piece has the whole of the rod socket at its lower end.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of a band and rod bracket having the moveable piece
pivotted to turn, or fold upwards the pressure of the rod being sufficient to fix the
band when the loose pivotted piece is bearing against it.
Figure 6 is a perspective elevation of a pair of brackets after the style of those
shown at Figure 1 but intended to carry a rod only. The socket on the left hand
side of the figure may be a casting, or by folding a suitable cut strip of metal, as at
Figure 7.
Each plain socket may have a back wall to prevent the rod being pushed out
endwise and also the socket and band slots of the combination brackets.
A, B, are the brackets.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what
claim is :-
1. The combination bracket for short curtain rods and curtain bands of a slot
and a hole, one being formed in the solid part of the bracket, and one in the
moveable part of such bracket, the rod or moveable portion serving to lock both
rod and band firmly yet temporarily in place, as hereinbefore described, and
substantially as shown in the annexed drawings.
2. Constructing combination brackets of the kind claimed in the previous clause
with end walls or stops to prevent rod or band being moved endwise, as described.
3. Providing brackets used for short curtain and like drapery with a pivotted, or
other moveable piece, which when in position, serve to fasten the band, and also the
rod by which such short curtain, or other drapery is suspended in their respective
positions, as set forth.
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1 LOAL
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said John Hart Sankey