US519414A - Window-shade exhibitor - Google Patents

Description

' UNITED ST TES? PATENT OFFI E.

WINDOW-SHADE EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 519,414, dated May 8, 1894.

Application filed June 30, 1893} To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, JAMES SrUReiss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edgerton, in the county of Platt and Stateof Mis-j souri, have invented a new and useful WindowShade Exhibitor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved window-shade exhibitor, and it has for-its objects to provide a rack capable of supporting a numberof curtains or shades in convenient form for display; to provide for the housing of the same when not on display, and for the ready attachment and detachment of the rollers from the rack, and to provide a receptacle for the stock represented by the samples exhibited. l 7

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims. In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of an exhibitor embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the means for adjusting the hood. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view to show a modified construction of adjusting device for the hood.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlngs.

1 designates vertical bars or uprights, which support a horizontally-disposed hood 2, which is provided upon its rear side with guide-pins 3. engaging vertical slots 4,in the uprights. These uprights are connected at an intermediate point by a cross-bar 5, provided with a central guide 6, through which passes a vertical rack-bar 7, fixed at its upper end to the hood. Mounted in said guide is a pinion 8, meshing with said rack-barand provided with a ratchet 9, engagedby a stoppawl 10. Said pinion is provided with a squared post or arbor 11, adapted to be engaged by a suitable key, whereby the hood may be elevated or depressed.

The hood is provided at its front side with ahinged leaf 12, to give access to the shades which are arranged at the front of the hood; and the latter is further provided with a top door 13, whereby theupper shades may be Serial No. 479,293 (No model.)

adj usted or removed without interfering with those that are arranged beneath. The side with sockets to receive the pintles or trunnions of the shade-rollers, those upon the slotted sockets 14, to receive the flattened pintle of the spring roller. In perforations 15, in the right-hand wall of the hood, which perforations align respectively with the slotted sockets 14, are threaded sockets 16, to receive the pintles or trunnions at the adjacent ends of the shade-rollers. These threaded sockets may be independent, as shown at 16*, or maybe arranged in groups, as shown at 16, in which case only the intermediate socket is threaded, the others being smooth to slide in the perforations. Said intermediate socket is provided with a neck 17, carrying a cross-bar 18, which is fixed to the outer ends of the smooth sockets. Furthermore, the outer ends of the threaded sockets are squared to receive a suitable key, as shown at 19, to enable the socket to be adjusted to suit the length of the shade-rollers.

20 represents a receptacle for stock, the interior thereof being provided with verticallyarranged racks 21, consisting of upright rods 2 and horizontal bars 23, which are perforated to receive the rods. The shade rollers are arranged in the openings thus formed between the bars and rods. case is shaped to represent and serve as a desk and covers a receptacle 24, for curtain fixtures and other small articles which are necessary in connection with shades.

From the above description it will be understood that the sockets which are carried ranged out of vertical alignment enable the each other, and thus permit of exhibiting a large number without danger of" rubbing or otherwise marring the same. Furthermore, either of the rollers may be disconnected from the hood without disturbing any of the others, by reason of the accessibility afforded by the front leaf and the door in the top of the hood. Furthermore, the hood may beadj usted vertically to display a greater or less length of the shades.

walls of the hood are provided, respectively,

by opposite walls of the hood and are ar-- left-hand side or wall having the bayonet or The top of the shades to hang vertically out of contact with Various changes in the form, proportion,

and the minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a slightly modified form of adjusting device for the hood, such, device consisting of a cord 25, secured at one end to the hood, extending over a guide-pulley 26 carried by the upper cross-beam of v the supporting frame, and reeled at the other end upon a drum 27, provided with a pawl-- and-ratchet clutch similarto that shown in walls and front and top hinged doors, sockets carried by the side-walls-for the reception of shade-roller trunnions, guide-pins projecti ing rearward from the rear side of thehood; and slidably fitted in the slots of the uprights means for adjusting the hood vertically, and: locking-devices to secure the-hood at the dc-5 sired adjustment, the means for adjusting and locking the hood being locatedbetween the uprights and slightly above the plane of the upper side of the said receptacle whereby it is within reach of an operator from the floor, substantially as specified.

2. In a window-shade exhibitor, the combination with an upright supporting frame, of a hood carried by such frame and provided upon one side wall with slotted sockets and in the other side wall with aligned perforations, and adjustable wsocketsfitted in said perforations and ,provided with a threaded intermediate socket and adjacent parallel sliding sockets, substantially as specified.

3. In a window shade exhibitor, the combination with an uprightsupporting frame, of a hood carried by such frame and provided upon one side wall with slotted sockets and in the other sidewall with aligned perforations, andadj u'stablesock-ets fitted in said perforations, substantially as specified.

In testimony that Iclaim the foregoin g as t the own I have hereto aflixed my signature in my presence of two witnesses.

-L. M. MORGAN, "N ELSON KERR.

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