Improvements in Brackets for Supporting Curtain Rods.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1896-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Supporting Curtain Rods.
I, JOHN JONES, of 1 Islington, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Mechanic,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to brackets for supporting curtain rods and is more
especially applicable to the rods or laths which support short curtains which
extend across the lower part of the window; it is found that such curtains, when
washed, shrink very considerably, and as this diminishes the depth of the curtain
it is necessary from time to time to lower the supporting rod or lath, and the
object of my invention is to provide brackets adapted to be secured to the window
and to so carry the rod or lath that the height can be easily adjusted to suit the
curtain.
According to my invention I construct such brackets as follows;-
I take a strip of sheet metal about six or eight inches long and by giving it, at
each end, two right angled bends in opposite directions, I form it into a shallow
inverted U shaped bracket with projecting feet at each end. When this bracket
is secured to the window sash, parallel to the vertical sides thereof, its three right
angled sides form, with the window sash as the fourth side, a slot some four or five
inches long and say about one quarter of an inch wide; this slot is divided, by
turning in pieces left on the side of the strip or cut out of the substance of the
strip, into say four or six parts into any of which the lath which supports the
curtain just fits; portions of the strip are also turned down so as to form springs
which bear on the lath and keep it in position laterally.
The front of the strip is ornamented by embossing lacquering etc., and one
bracket is, of course, fixed at each side of the window and the arrangement forms
a convenient and adjustable means for supporting the curtain rod or lath.
Dated this 21st day of March 1896.
SLOAN & LLOYD BARNES,
Castle Chambers, 26 Castle Street, Liverpool,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, JOHN JONES, of 1 Islington, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Mechanic,
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 relates to brackets for supporting curtain rods and is more
especially applicable to the rods or laths which support short curtains which
extend across the lower part of the window; it is found that such curtains, when
washed, shrink very considerably, and as this diminishes the depth of the curtain

page_text: it is necessary from time to time to lower the supporting rod or lath, and the
object of my invention is to provide brackets adapted to be secured to the window
and to so carry the rod or lath that the height can be easily adjusted to suit the
curtain.
According to my invention I construct such brackets as follows;-
I take a strip of sheet metal about six or eight inches long and by giving it, at
each end, two right angled bends in opposite directions, I form it into a shallow
inverted U shaped bracket with projecting feet at each end. When this bracket
is secured to the window sash, parallel to the vertical sides thereof, its three right
angled sides form, with the window sash as the fourth. side, a slot some four or five
inches long and, say, about one quarter of an inch wide; this slot is divided, by
turning in pieces left on the side of the strip or cut out of the substance of the
strip, into say four or six parts into any of which the lath which supports the
curtain just fits; portions of the strip may also be turned down so as to form
springs which bear on the lath and keep it in position laterally.
I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. I shows the brackets applied to an ordinary window;
Fig. II is an isometric projection of the main bracket,
.
Fig. 111 is a development of the sheet metal as stamped out to form the main
bracket, and
Figs. IV and V are isometric projections of modified forms of the bracket.
1 is the main bracket formed by stamping the sheet metal to the shape shown in
Fig. III, and then giving the metal a right angled bend along each of the chain
lines shown in Fig. III.
The two side pieces 2, which are turned in have recesses 3 cut out, in which the
curtain rod 4 is supported.. The rods 4 may be kept in place laterally by spring
pieces cut out of the face 5 of the bracket but I have found it simpler to make a
saw cut in the rod at 6, into which one of the projecting side pieces 2 enters and so
holds the rod against lateral movement.
When the rods 4 are long I provide a central bracket 7 similar to 1 except that
the side pieces 2 are turned outwardly; this bracket is placed at the centre of the
window, and supports the rod at the centre as shown in Fig. I. In order that the
bracket 7 may accommodate itself to the mouldings on the window frame the lower
foot is adapted to be turned in as shown in Fig. IV.
In Fig. II the bracket is shown with three recesses so that the height of the rod
may be adjusted; in the case of the lower rod however no adjustment is necessary
and I therefore make the bracket 8, to carry it, as shown in Fig. V.
Holes 9 are formed in the brackets 1 and 8 which serve to support side rods 10
when necessary.
.....
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 ;-
The improved brackets for supporting curtain rods; substantially as described
and illustrated.