US1220777A - Vehicle-curtain fastener. - Google Patents

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F. A.NE1DER.

VEHICLE CURTAIN FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED Nov.. 9, IsI-e.

LQTYI l Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

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FRED A.. NEIDER, 0F AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNCR TO THE F. A. NEIDER COMPANY, OFAUGUSTA, KENTUCKY, A CORPORATION OF KENTUCKY.

VEHICLE-CURTAIN FASTENER.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

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without imposing any strain upon the curtain material during the locking and unlocking operations. u

A further .obj ect 1s to produce an 1mproved vehicle curtain fastener adapted positively to lock the curtain in position and to release it without removing it from the position it occupies when locked.

These and other objects are attained in the vehicle curtain vfastener described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an enlarged sectional view of a curtain fastener embodying my invention, taken on the line 11 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of my improved vehicle curtain fastener.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a modified form of the curtain fastener embodying my invention.

Fig. 4 is a view of the curtain fastener illustrated in Fig. 3, but showing its locking member moved to its unlocking position.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the vehicle curtain fastener illustrated in Figs. 3 and Ll.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the locking member in its unlocked position and mounted in its housing.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the locking spring housing. i

The vehicle curtain fastener embodying my invention consists of a stud 8 adapted to receive a socket 9 which coperates with the stud to form my improved fastener. The stud is provided with a headed end 10 beneath which a neck 11 of reduced diameter is provided, the head preventing displacement of the socket from the stud, in the manner hereinafter to be more fully described. The socket member 9 consists of housing 12 having aflange 13 from which extend prongs 14 the flange being provided with an aperture 15 adapted to permit the passage of the stud 8 therethrough.` Beneath the flange 13 and engaging its edge, is a washer 16, this washer engaging the curtain material 17 when the prongs 14k are passed through the curtain material insecuring the socket member thereto. Against the rear surface of the curtain material an additional washer 18 is secured, this washer forming the back of the socket and adapted to have the prongs 14 bent over into engagement therewith as disclosed in Figs. 1 and 5. Between the metal forming the top 19 of the housing 12, and the top surface of the washer 16, is a space equal in depth to that of the flange 13, this-space being adapted to receive the ends 20 and 21 of a wire spring locking member 22. Referring to my preferred and modified constructions disclosed in Figs. 2, 3, -L and 6 it will be seen that the ends 20 and 21 are bent to positions in which they occupy an obtuse angle with relation to one another the ends lying in the same plane as the remaining portion 23, forming the handle with which the wire spring locking member is operated. Another portion 2lof the spring locking mem'- ber is adapted to engage the periphery of the housing 12 so as to lie concentric to and in close engagement therewith as in Figs. 2 and 3, this portion being made sufficiently small as to present a snug fit in order that the wire spring member may be snapped over the edge of the housing flange to hold the socket in its locked position with relation to the stud. Housing 12 in the preferred construction disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2 is substantially elliptical in contour and its aperture likewise is elliptical. Washers 16 and 17 in Figs. 1 and 2 are elliptical and have elliptical apertures. In this construction the wire spring locking member 22 is journaled in notches located centrally of the flange 13 of the housing 12, that is, midway between the ends of the mounting member, so that the wire spring member may be swung to either end of the housing 12 and be brought into locking engagement with either end as disclosed in full and in dotted lines in Fig. 2. In the modified form of my vehicle curtain fastener, the member 22 is journaled off center from its housing 12a so that in one position, such as disclosed in Fig. 3, the wire spring locking member is retained in its locked position in engagement with the flange and in its opposite position,

as disclosed in Fig. 1, the locking member is moved away from the housing. 1n its locked position as disclosed in Figs. 2 and 3, the ends 20 and 21 of the wire member, are

nturned to such a position that they engage from the stud. In Figs.V 1 and 2, l have shown the stud as being located at the lower end of theslot, the ends and 21 of the Vlocking member 22, holding the stud in this position and locking the socket against disy placement therefrom. However, when the spring locking member is moved toits dotted line' position, the ends are withdrawn from the-neck of the stud and are brought to an opposite position so that the socket is Y free to be withdrawnfrom the stud. If the curtain is too long so that it would bulge when the socket is placed over the stud, with the stud occupying the lower end of the slot, the socket may be brought to cause the stud to occupy the upper end of the elongated slot,rthe spring locking member being movedto the dotted line position disclosed in Fig. 2 to lock the stud in this upper position, and lowered to the full line position disclosed in Fig. 2, .to release the stud, the

`'positions of the' stud and the wire locking member being reversed for'the varying conditions of the curtain. The construction disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2 is particularly adaptedto'be used wherethe curtain material is liable to .shrink when exposed to weather conditions, the socket being placed Yin the new curtain materialin such a position that the stud will occupy the ,upper end of the slot'until the curtain shrinks, atV which time i yit willoccupy the lower end of the slot.

'When the stud occupies the upper end of the slot asY disclosed in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the wire spring. locking member will lock it in position when it is moved to the dotted line position in/Fig. 2, and when the stud occupiesthe lower end of the slot, the wire spring locking4 member will occupy the full Y linev position to lock it in position as disclosedin Fig. 2. A feature of my invention ybothin the preferred and modified forms, jisthat owing to the angularposition of theV ends -Yof the wire s pringlocking member, with relation to one another, the member will be caused to be retained in its locked or unlocked lposition by reason of the vspring tendency 4of the wirev of whichk the locking memberv is constructed. Whenthe locking,

member-ismoved from its locked to its unlocked position o r vice versathe ends which normally Yoccupy Yan obtuse :angle position with relation to one'k another, will be caused to straighten and lie in alinementrwith one another between the under side of the tops 19 and 19a of housings 12 and 12a respectively and the upper side of washers 16 and 16 which coperate to straighten the ends as the locking members are brought to their right angle positions with relation to the socket members'as disclosed in dotted lines at 25 and 25a in Figs. 1 and 5 respectively. As

'the wire spring locking members pass this right angle position when moved to either side thereof, the ends 20 and 21 tend to return to their angular positions to cause the locking member yieldingly to be held in its locked or unlocked positions.

It will be seen that with my improved curtain fastener, the socket will be retained in position on the stud without exerting any strain on the curtain material, that the placing of the socket in position on the stud will be accomplished without straining the curtain material, and that in removing the socket fro-m the stud, the curtain will be subjected to no strain.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A socket for vehicle curtain fasteners, having an aperture to receive a headed stud, and a locking member consisting of a wire loop having its ends journaled in the sides of the socket and projecting into the aperture, the locking member being adapted to be swung about its ends and in one limit of its travel to bring its ends into locking engagement with the stud and in the other limit of its travel to disengage the stud.

2. A socket for vehicle curtain fasteners, having an aperture and a recess formed therein, adapted respectively to receive a headed stud and a wire spring locking member, and a wire spring locking member havingits ends extending toward the aperture and adapted to engage the stud below the head when moved to its locking position and to disengage the stud when moved to its unlocking position.

3. A socket for vehicle curtain fasteners, consisting of a lock-carrying member having a flange extending from the edge thereof and an aperture formed therein and located concentrically with the flange, said iiange having curtain-securing means extending therefrom and a washer adapted to engage the flange and located between the lock-carrying member and the curtain, said washer having an aperture formed therein in alinement with the aperture of the lock-carrying member, and a wire spring lock mounted in the lock-carryingv member, said lock consisting of a loopedv wire spring having its ends extending through the flange of the lock-carrying member and into the aperture, said ends being bent out of alinement with one another, whereby the ends in one osition, will be brought into engagement with a headed stud beneath the headfthereof and removed from engagement therewith when the lock is moved to its other position.

et. A socket for vehicle curtain fasteners, having an aperture and a recess formed therein adapted respectively to receive a headed stud and a wire spring locking member, and a wire spring locking member having ends extending toward the aperture and bent out of alinement with relation to one another, said locking member being pivotally mounted in said socket recess, eccentric to the center of the stud when occupying its locked position within the socket, whereby the ends of the wire spring locking members will be brought to engage the stud when the member is moved toits locking position and whereby the ends will be disengaged from the stud when the member is moved t0 its unlocking position.

5. A socket for vehicle curtain fasteners, having an elongated aperture and a recess formed therein, adapted respectively to receiVe a headed stud and a wire spring locking member, the aperture being adapted to permit the stud to occupy either end thereof, and a wire spring locking member pivotaliy mounted in the socket and having its ends extending toward the aperture, located midway between the ends of said aperture and adapted to engage the stud below the head when the stud occupies either end of the aperture and to be moved from its engaging position to disengage the stud when occupying either end of the aperture.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 6th day of N0- vember, 11916.

FRED A. NEIDER.

Witnesses:

EDWIN C. TOLLEMAN, WILL A. FIELD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C.

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