US2320852A - Modernistic shade and means for adjusting same - Google Patents

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J. DE FALCO June 1, 1943.

' MODERNISTIC SHADE AND MEANS FQR ADJUSTING SAME Filed Jan. 19, 1942 Patented June 1, 1943 zaeassz Momznms'rro SHADE AND MEANS son ADJUSTING SAME Joseph De Falco, Vineland, N. J.

Application January l9, 1942, Serial No. 427,380

3 Claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel type of shade; to provide novel means for adjusting same, and to provide improved details of construction and operation of the shade, as hereinafter described.

I attain these and other objects of my invention by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a front plan View of the shade, a portion being broken away to save space;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the outer portion of the shade;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the shade showing the looped connection of cord or tape 22 at 23 with the stitching or stapling Like numerals designate like parts in each of the views.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, I provide a saddle I, having an upstanding flange 2, to conceal the roller 4. Roller 4 has its ends rotatably mounted on the saddle and kept in posi tion by suitable staples 5. The roller 4 is seated over a recess 3 in saddle l.

A pull cord 1 is attached at approximately the central portion of roller 4 by suitable fastening means such as tacks 6. The pull cord 1, which is used for raising and lowering the shade, passes through a short tube 8, which extends through and depends from the saddle l. Tube 8 has a vertically disposed tapered slot 9 into which the pull cord 1 can be pulled and thereby wedged to hold the shade at any desired adjusted position. The lower end of the pull cord 1 is retained at the right hand side of the shade by a cord holding element Ill near one end of the bottom piece 21, as shown in Fig. 1, thus taking up some of the length of the pull cord '1 and retaining it in a position where it will not be in the way or touch the floor when the shade is raised.

Attached to saddle I by screws 53 are metal hangers It at each end. These metal hangers have slots i2 which receive the screw-threaded hooks l4 mounted in the window frame by which the device is supported from the window frame. A foldable or plaited shade H is aflixed at its upper end to the saddle I and at its lower end to the bottom piece 2i. A central tape I afiiXed at its upper end to saddle l and at its lower end to bottom piece 2i limits the downward drop of the shade. Tape I5 is fastened to the folds of the shade in any suitable manner as by stitching or stapling 18. The center tape l5 holds the folds or plaits of the shade an even distance from one another. A pair of tapes lfiextend from the roller 4 to which their upper ends are afiixed so that they pass loosely through slots l9 in saddle i, to the upper surface of the bottom piece 2| to which their lower ends are affixed by means of tacks 20. Tapes 19 also pass through suitable slots IS in the folds of the shade, as shown in Fig. 1.

To raise the shade, the pull cord 1 is pulled, unreeling the cord from the roller 4 and at the same time winding the tapes l9 on the-roller, thereby raising the bottom piece 2| to which the lower ends of the tapes I9 are afiixed, as shown in Fig. 1. This causes the shade to fold up compactly with the folds supported by the bottom piece 2|. The pull cords and tapes are rolled on to the roller 4 in reverse directions. When the shade has been raised to the desired height, the pull cord 1 is pulled into the slot 9 of tube 8 which automatically wedges it in a stationary position and the lower end of the pull cord is then placed over the tack 10 to hold it out of the way. To lower the shade, the cord is released from its wedging engagement in slot 9 and allowed to slip upward through the tube 8, the weight of the bottom piece 2| of the shade pulling the shade downward until it is again stopped at the desired position by engagement of cord 1 in slot 9 of tube 8. The tape l5 limits the extent of the downward fall of the shade. Suitable slots in the recessed portion 3 of saddle l permit the tapes Hi to pass through the saddle and thence through slots IS in the folds I! of the shade.

What I claim is:

1. A plaited shade of the type described, tapes loosely passing through slots in the plaited shade, the combination of a roller to which the upper ends of the tapes are secured, the tapes being windable on the roller, a saddle piece adapted to be mounted on a window frame and on which said roller is rotatably supported, a pull cord secured to the roller and windable on the roller in a direction reverse to that of the tapes, 2. bottom piece to which the lower end of the plaited shade is attached and to which the tapes are operatively engaged, whereby a pull on the pull cord will operate the roller and wind the tapes and raise the shade, and a tube extending through and depending from the saddle through which the pull cord passes, said tube having a tapered slot into which the pull cord can be pulled and releasably wedged to hold the shade in any desired adjusted position.

2. In a shade of the type described, having tapes for raising the shade, the combination of a roller to which the upper ends of the tapes are secured, the tapes being windable on the roller, a saddle piece on which said roller is rotatably supported, the saddle piece being mounted on a window frame, a pull cord secured to the roller and windable on the roller in a direction reverse to that of the tapes, a bottom piece to which the lower end of the plaited shade is attached and to which the tapes are operatively engaged, whereby a pull on the pull cord will operate the roller and wind the tapes and raise the shade, a tube extending through and depending from the saddle through which the pull cord passes, said tube having a tapered slot into which the pull cord can be pulled and releasably wedged to hold the shade in any desired adjusted position, and a cord holding element fastened near one end of the bottom piece to releasably hold the lower end of the cord away from the center of the shade,, to hold it from the floor and retain the cord 20 in proper wedged position in the slotted tube.

3. In a shade of the type described, having folds and having tapes for operating same, the combination or awroller to which the upper ends of the tapes are secured, the tapes being windable on the roller, a recessed saddle piece on which said roller is rotatably supported, a saddle having an upstanding flange extending along its inner portion concealing the roller from view, staples loosely engaging the ends of the roller to retain same on the saddle while permitting rotation, means for mounting the saddle piece on a window frame, a pull cord secured to the roller and windable on i the roller in a direction reverse to that of the tapes, and a bottom piece to which the lower end of the plaited shade is attached and to which the tapes are adjustably engaged; whereby a pull on the pull cord will operate the roller and wind the tapes and raise the shade..

JOSEPH DE FALCO.

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