CURTAIN RAIL SUPPORTING BRACKET

(2) BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTION

The hanging of curtains conventionally involves the arduous step of hooking individual curtain secured hooks to rail displaceable rollers that fit along installed railing. It is an object of this invention to facilitate the action of curtain hanging.

(3) FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to a curtain rail supporting bracket of which a plurality are used for operatively locating a curtain rail at a high elevation once curtaining is fitted to such railing.

(4) PRIOR ART DESCRIPTION

In the prior art, according to the knowledge of the inventor and applicant, curtains are hung in response to the hooking of individual curtain held hooks to rail engaging displacers fitted along pre-installed curtain railing.

(5) BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The invention is now described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings

Figure 1 three dimensionally shows a curtain rail supporting bracket comprising a rail holding part and an attachment part, according to the invention, in the parts disengaged condition,

Figure 2 shows the bracket in side elevation bracket parts engaged condition, also showing the fitment of curtain railing there along,

Figure 3 shows the bracket in plan view bracket parts engaged condition, and

Figure 4 shows the inter-engagement action of the parts of the bracket.

(6) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Referring to the drawings a curtain rail supporting bracket, according to the invention, is generally indicated by reference numeral 10.

The bracket 10 comprises a rail holding part in the form of a cantilever extending type arm 12 that is formed to accommodate curtain railing there along by way of a number of seats 14 and an attachment part in the form of a wall securable body 6 to which the arm 12 is releasably securable by way of a quick engagement and release inter-attachment arrangement in the form of a sliding engagement layout generally indicated by reference numeral 18. As shown in figures 2 and 4(c) the arm 12 extends in a cantilever way from the body 16 once the bracket 10 is installed and its parts are inter secured for operative use.

The sliding engagement layout 18 is constituted by a slide formation 20 that is integrally formed along a trailing end coupling section 22 that integrally forms part of the arm 12 and a lengthwise-formed recess 26 that extends down the body 16 along which the slide formation 20 is slidably receivable from an overhead entrance 28 to the recess 26. The coupling section 22 extends transverse to the central axis 24 of the arm 12. The end 30 of the recess 26 remote from its entrance 28 is closed off. The slide formation 20 is formed with outward facing lengthwise extending engaging lips 32 that match complementary extending retaining grooves 34 along the recess 26. Progressive engagement of lips 32 along the grooves 34 on slide formation 20 to recess 26 fitting causes the releasable dovetail type securing of the arm 12 to the body 16.

The body 16 is formed with bores 36 by way of which it is securable to a wall or the like by way of countersunk screws (not shown). Securing is naturally done in a way that causes the entrance 28 to the recess 26 to be from overhead with the recess 26 extending vertically.

While the bracket 10 can be formed to accommodate any number of railings two parallel extending rails are often used to accommodate an inner and an outer curtain. To this effect the arm 12 is formed with two seats 14 that are situated in series below a seat carrier part 38 forming part of the arm 12. The arm 12 is formed with a strengthening rib 40 that extends along the carrier part 38.

Each seat 14 is found within a rail-receiving zone 42 that is bordered intermediate an arcuately extending lip 44 curving away from an upwardly extending leg 46 while the upper boundary of each seat 14 is formed along a length of inner face 48 of the carrier part 38. The lip 44 of each seat 14 faces its trailing end coupling section 22 causing the entrance 50 thereto also facing accordingly. The size of the receiving zone 42 is selected to snugly match the cross sectional profile of conventional railing thereby permitting a clip on action between the arm 12 and curtain railing.

In use as referring in particular to figures 2 and 4 a selected number of wall securable bodies 16 are at a suitable inter-spacing conventionally secured to an upright support such as a wall from which curtaining is desired to be hung. The wall securable bodies 16 are naturally secured to cause the entrances 28 to their recesses 26 to be from overhead. Curtaining (not shown) as conventionally fitted to railing 52 (as shown in figure 2) is subsequently fitted with a number of arms 12 matching the number of wall securable bodies 16. Fitting is achieved by clipping the arms 12 onto the railing 52 to fit along the seats 14 of the arms 12. With the curtaining already fitted to the railing 52 the latter is lifted to the elevation of the wall securable bodies 16. Once the arms 12 have been brought into lateral alignment with their wall securable bodies 16, attachment is achieved by simply engaging the various arms 12 with their matching wall securable bodies 16. This is done by way of an overhead engagement action of the slide formations 20 down their recesses 26, as stepwise shown by figures 4(a), 4(b) and 4(c), resulting in the arms 12 extending in a cantilever type way from their wall securable bodies 16. At this stage a curtain hanging action is fully completed. Removal of curtaining is achieved by simply disengageably lifting the various arms 12 from their wall securable bodies 16 by way of a single action curtain rail lifting action.

It is an advantage of the invention as specifically described that the arduous step in curtain hanging which involves the clipping of individual curtain attached clips to rail displaceable rollers can be done at a working bench elevation while the actual step of curtain hanging is achieved by an essential one step process.