US1485748A - Window-shade hanger - Google Patents

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March 4, 1924. 1,485,748

' W. C. WISEKAI..

WINDOW SHADE HANGER Filed Feb. l5 v1921k Patented Mar. 4, 1324.

WILLIAM C. WISWEKAL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WINDOW-SHADE HANGER.

Application filed February 15, 1921. Serial No. 445,178.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. WISEKAL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of 1444 Avenue A, New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVindow-Shade Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to supports in general and particularly to the .kind adapted for supporting shades in window frames.

One' of the objects of my invention is to provide a telescoping longitudinally adjustable main support upon which may ride and may be fixedly set at any desired point one or more supporting brackets for engaging a shade or any other article.

Another object of my invention is to provide in connect-ion with such telescoping main support and with such riding brackets serrated means facilitating the engagement between the main support and the bracket.

The foregoing and still other objects will be more fully apparent from the following description and the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a top view of a preferred form of my invention attached within a window frame.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of my invention attached to the outer surface of a window frame.

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail bottom view of the supporting bars.

Fig. 5 is a detail top view of a preferred form of a shade bracket.

Referring to the figures, numeral 10 designates a substantially L-shaped bar member having its upper edge 11 and its lower edge 12 bent over so as to form longitudinal guide grooves 13 and 14 respectively.

At one end of bar member 10 and integral therewith is formed an attaching bracket 15 made preferably rectangular so as to provide two attaching faces 16 and 17.

The attaching bracket 15 is preferably perforated as indicated at 18, to receive either screws or nails or any other means for fastening bar member 10 to the window frame.

At the under face of the horiontally disposed or upper leg portion of bar member 10, a central serrated strip 19 is provided, the function of which will be explained later.

In guide grooves 13 and 14 of bar member 10 and adapted to be guided therein is another bar member 20 corresponding in shape with the former and provided at one of its ends with a similar attaching bracket 21 also made rectangularly and having at-v taching faces 22 and 23 respectively. The attaching bracket is also perforated at 18 and serves for the same purpose as does bracket 15.

At the under surface of the upper leg portion of bar member 20 again a serrated strip 24 is provided.

Bar members 10 and 20 telescope and may be adjusted longitudinally to any desired length. They may be attached within a window frame as indicated in Fig. 1, or they may be secured at the outer surface of a window frame, as shown in Fig. 2.

In the first case, faces 17 and 23 of the attaching brackets abut with the inner surface of the window posts, while in the latter case, faces 16 and 22 abut with the front face of the window frame, to which the bars are attached in such a manner as to provide a free space between the upper surface of the bar members and the lower face of the window as indicated at 25.

Adapted to ride upon the telescoping bar members 10 and 20 are riders or shade brackets 26 and preferably made of resilient material and provided with a hook-like portion 27 which engages the edge of the upper le of the bars. Its hook-like end 28 is curve upwardly and that portion is provided with a serrated surface as indicated at 29 in Fig. 5.

At the upper portion of the bracket a threaded neck 3() is provided for receiving a set screw 31 by means of which the bracket may be held fixedly in place.

Extending from the bracket body is an arm 32 provided with a perforation 33 for receiving the ends of a shade.

The serrated portion 29 of the bracket 26 matches with the serrated strips of bar members 10 and 20. l

In order to attach a shade to a window frame, first one end of the telescoping double bar is fastened to either within or without of the window frame, then the other end of the double bar is extended to the desired length until the opposite point of the window frame is reached where the attaching bracket of the bar is secured.. The shade brackets or riders 26 are then placed at approniinately the desired points, the shade Vls 'fastened with its ends in apertures 33 of the brackets, and when adjusted properly the screws 3l of the brackets are screwed down tight. Y

A s has been said before brackets 26 are inade of resilient n'iaterial and their U shaped hook portion is adapted to engage either one of the bar inen'ibers. n this neanner the brackets niay be exchanged and may be attached to either bar nielnber l0 or 20.

When assembling the shade support, it is preferable that before slipping bar 2O into the guide grooves oi`A bar l0, to iirst aiiix brackets 26 upon the respective bar menibers.

The above description treats only a shade support of the design shown in the drawings. Be it understood, however, that the shape of the niain support and that of the shade brackets may be changed or improved and that this support is not limited for the specific use in connection with shades, but may be adapted for any other purpose.

l therefore reserve for myself the right insane to inake such changes or improvements within the bread scope or niy invention.

clairnzl. In an adjustable support, a pair of teleseoping angular bars adapted to be longitudinally adjusted, attaching means pro-y vided at each end of the angular bars, and a rider adapted to travel upon said bars, the lower end of one leg et said bars provided with a serration, said rider equipped with a corresponding serration, and means for uninovably fastening said rider upon the bars. l v

2. In a shade support, the combination of a pair el' angular bars telescoping with each other, end supports provided on each of the bars, a seri-ation provided at one face of one leg or' the bars., a spring rider adapted to ernbrace both legs of the bars and having a curved engaging end provided with a serration, said serration adapted to engage the serration of said bars and a set screw associated with said rider adapted to engage the face of the bar legs opposite to that provided with the serration.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York this 14th day of February, A. D. 1921. Y WTILLlAM C. WISEKAL,

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