Improvements in Supporting Brackets for Window Shade or Curtain Poles and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug.,
1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supporting Brackets for Window Shade or Curtain
Poles and the like.
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I HERBERT JOHN HADDAN of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co. of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand W.C. London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Theodore
Henry Klein, of Cleveland, State of Ohio, United States of America, Merchant,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in window shade or curtain pole
supporting brackets; and it consists in certain features of construction hereinafter
described and pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure is a side elevation of a window shade bracket embodying this
invention.
Fig. 2 is a right hand side elevation relative to Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shows this improved bracket partially applied to a wall or window
casing.
Fig. 4 shows the bracket secured in position upon the wall or casing.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the bracket previously made by me and
Fig. 6 exhibits the application of the bracket shown in Fig. 5.
This improved bracket is cast preferably of malleable iron and is provided with
a point a, adapted to be driven into the window casing or object to which the
bracket is to be secured, the portion a² of the bracket (to be engaged by the
hammer or tool used in driving the same into the window casing or object being
located preferably directly in line with said point. The bracket, a suitable distance
below point a is provided with another point a that is considerably shorter
than point a, point a being preferably just long enough to embed itself in the
window casing or object in driving the bracket into the casing or object to prevent
the bracket from turning or working loose when the bracket is secured in position,
the bracket being provided with flanges or shoulders a³, at the inner ends of
points a, a, said flanges or shoulders extending preferably all round the respective
point and being adapted to engage the surface 6 of the window casing or object
when the bracket is secured in place. The entire bracket is composed of a single
casting and can be secured to any form of moulding or window casing.
This improved bracket, illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 possesses a marked
advantage over the bracket heretofore made by me and exhibited in Figs. 5 and 6.
In the bracket shown in said Figs. 5 and 6, it will be observed that the embedding
points are arranged parallel with each other, and that the shoulders or flanges at
the inner ends of the points are located in the same vertical plane. This bracket,
when driven into or secured to the window casing or object, will incline more or
less upwardly and outwardly upon being secured in place and the lower embedding
point will consequently not entirely embed itself in the window casing or object as
shown in Fig. 6, that exhibits the application of one of said brackets. Hence, the
bracket when secured in place, as shown in said Fig. 6, is not only not as secure as
it should be, but is unsightly.
I, therefore arrange the shoulder or flange at the inner end of the upper or longer
point somewhat in advance of the shoulder or flange at the inner end of the lower
or shorter point and also arrange the upper shoulder or flange at an inclination to
the vertical plane in which the lower shoulder or flange is located, that is, at an
inclination in the direction of the free end of the upper point. The lower point is

page_text: arranged at right angles to the shoulder or flange at the inner end of said point,
but the upper point as already indicated inclines somewhat upwardly towards the
free end of said point relative to the lower point. The result of my improved
construction, just described is that when the bracket is driven with its upper point
approximately embedded in the window casing or object to which the bracket is to
be secured, the lower point will only be partially embedded in said casing or object
as shown in Fig. 3, the upper extremity of the shoulder or flange at the inner end
of the upper point will engage the surface of the window casing or object, but the
lower extremity will not yet have engaged said casing or object, whereas the
shoulder or flange at the inner end of the lower joint will maintain parallelism with
such casing or object. When the bracket has been secured in place to the extent
shown in Fig. 3, by thereupon applying one or more blows to portion a¹ of the
bracket, the latter will assume the position shown in Fig. 4 relative to the window
casing or wall, in which position the shoulders or flanges at the inner ends of both
points of the bracket will squarely engage the window casing or object to which the
bracket is secured, and the bracket proper instead of maintaining the outwardly
and upwardly inclined position shown in Fig. 3 will assume a horizontal position as
shown in Fig. 4.
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 I
claim is :-
1. A window shade bracket having two embedding points of different lengths,
respectively, and shoulders or flanges at the inner ends of the points, the longer
embedding point inclining outwardly away from the shorter point and the shoulder
or flange at the inner end of the longer point being located somewhat in advance of
the shoulder or flange at the inner end of the shorter point, substantially as
set forth.
2. A window shade bracket having an upper embedding point a and a lower and
shorter embedding point a² and shoulders or flanges a at the inner ends of the
points, the lower point and shoulder or flange at the inner end of said point being
arranged at right angles or approximately at right angles to each other, and the
shoulder or flange at the inner end of the upper point inclining toward the free end
of said point and being located somewhat in advance of the shoulder or flange at
the inner end of the lower point, substantially as set forth.
3. A window shade or curtain-pole supporting bracket cast of malleable metal
and having two embedding points of different lengths, respectively, and shoulders
or flanges at the inner ends of the points substantially as set forth.
4. A window shade or curtain pole supporting bracket substantially as shown for
the purpose specified.
Dated thin l 1
T1004
H. J. HADDAN.