US1815249A - Curtain rail support - Google Patents

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l July 2l, 1931. G. F. FR`ENCH CURTAIN RAIL SUPPORT Filed May '7. 1929 Patented July 21, 1931 PATENT OFFICE GEORGE FREDERICK FRENCH, F MANCHESTER, ENGLAND CURTAIN RAIL SUPPORT Application :filed May 7, 1929, Serial No. 361,208, and in Great Britain October 26, 1927.

rIhis invention refers to brackets for supporting holeless fiat web section curtain rails;

In the known brackets, the rail is supported by two jaws and a screw, one of the jaws being separable from the other jaw to admit the top edge of the rail, and being then movable by the screw towards the other aw to grip the rail.

One of the objects of this invention is to dispense with the movable jaw and thereby simplify and cheapen the bracket.

A still further object is to provide a onejaw bracket which allows of the rail being secured to the bracket, and to the window easement by a single screw.

A still further object is to provide a onej aw bracket which in one form allows of the rail being secured to it independently of fixing it (the bracket) to the window casement or other support, and in another form Aallows of the two operations being effected by a single screw.

Examples of brackets made according to the invention are shown upon the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. l is a front perspective view of a bracket adapted to be secured to the window easement or other support by a single long screw, the screw not being shown.

Fig. 2 is a rear perspective View of the same bracket.

Fig. 3 is a side sectional elevation of the bracket shown in Figs. l and 2, and also Y shows a long screw for fixing same.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a modification of Fig. l.

Referring to Figs. l, 2, and 3, the body part a of the bracket therein shown is made of sheet metal cut and folded to produce three flat sides, and also to produce a transverse flap and lugs b, b, at one end and a turned down Hap c at the other end. In the front edges of the vertical sides of the body 45 part are recesses CZ collectively forming the single jaw aforesaid. The flap c is slightly shorter in length than the depth of the sides of the body part of the bracket and its bottom edge lies on a level with the top sides of the recesses d. In the flap c is a hole or opening c which may be a complete hole with only a thin portion of metal between it and the bottom edge of the flap, see Fig. 6, or as shown, it may extend through such edge, see Fig. l. Passing through such hole or opening is the stem of a long screw f, see Fig. 3, the screwed part passing out through a hole g in the rear of the bracket and into the window easement when requiring to fix the bracket thereto. That part of each front vertical edge of the body part of the bracket below the recess d stands back from the plane of the upper part to an extent equal to the thickness of the web of the curtain rail to be supported, sce Fig. 3.

At the rear of the bracket are small spurs L formed out of the metal at the time of making the hole for the screw, and on the bracket being first applied to the window h Casement, the spurs project into the woodworkunder a slight pressure of the hand, and temporarily attach the bracket to the easement.

In proceeding to lix the bracket to the I Casement, the screw f is first passed through the bracket and screwed into the Casement a sufficient distance to support the bracket. The top edge of the curtain rail is then passed between the front end of the bracket and the screw head, the flange of the rail entering the recesses d, and thus supporting` the rail, and the screw then being tightened up until'its head part presses firmly against the plain side of the rail, when the bracket it lirmly fixed to the easement and the rail firmly fixed to the bracket. Siimiltaneousl) with the tightening of the screw, the spurs 71. are driven home into the Casement, so that the bracket has no tendency to rotate with the screw, and so also that, onvafterwards slackening the screw to release the rail the spurs still hold the bracket to the Casement.

As shown in Fig. 4, spurs may be formed upon the rear face of the flap c, to form a guide for the screw when first inserting same through the ho'le in the flap c.

What I claim is:-

l. A bracket for supporting a iiat web section curtain rail, composed of sheet metal cut and folded to produce an inverted channel-shaped body part with a flap at each end and each flap having hole for a screw to pass through in iixing the bracket to a window easement, and the flap at the rear of thebracket having rearwardly*.projecting spurs immediately surrounding .the hole, the front vertical edges of the said body part of the bracket having a recess at a point immediately below the lower edge of the flap and that part of each front vertical edge below the recess being setbackout of the plane of the upper part of such edge, and a long screw passing through the' holes -in the flaps and by its head part when tightened up firmly holding the flange of the :top edge of a curtain rail in engagementwith the recess and simultaneously driving all the spurs at the rear end of the bracket into the easement, as set forth.

2. In a bracket for supportingl a iiat web section curtain rail, a body part composed of sheetl metal cut and folded to form an inverted channel-shaped body part and to produce turned down end flaps, kthe flap -at one end having an openingwhich breaks through the lower edge of the lla-p, and ,the flap at the other end having a circular -hole and rearwardly projecting spurs immediately surrounding the hole, the verticali edges jat the opposite and front end of the bracket having recesses for engagement with :a flange at the topedge of the rail to besupported, that part of each front vertical-edge being set back out of the plane of theupper part, and a screw passing over the rail and -through the flaps and into the easement-:to which the bracket requires to be fixedk and on said screw beingtightened up. irmly holding by its head part the flangeaty the top edge of the rail in engagement-'with the recesses in the bracket and simultaneously driving all the spurs at the rea-rend of :the bracket into the Casement, as set forth.

3. In a bracket for supporting a flat web section curtain rail, a body part composed of sheetmetal cut and folded to forman inverted channel-shaped body part andv to produce turned down end flaps, the flap at one end having an opening which breaks through the lower edge of the flap andthe edge of which projects into the body part of the bracket in the form of spurs, while the flap at the other end of the bracket has a circular hole and rearwardly projecting spurs immediately surrounding the hole, said rear flap being wider' than the body part of the bracket and having a further hole near each end, the vertical edges at the opposite and front end of the bracket having recesses for engagement with a flange at the top edge of the rail to be supported, and that part of each front vertical edge being set back out of the plane ofthe upper part, and a screw passing over the rail and. through the flaps and into the easement to which the bracket requires to be fixed and on said screw being tightened up firmly holding by its head part the flange at the top edge of the rail in engagement with the recesses in the rbracket y,anda simultaneously driving all: the spursiatftherrearpendf of the bracket into the Casement, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my :name tofthis specification.

GEO. F. FRENCH.

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