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US 11,141,025 B2Granted
Product, system, method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for shower liner stay
OwnerWilliam J. Johnson, Sophia Johnsoninventors
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Abstract
A shower liner stay for holding a shower liner away from the showering area while a person is taking a shower. The shower liner stay includes one or more pensile wands to dangle on the dry ingress outside of a shower liner and adjacent the shower liner while dangling from existing hook(s) or curtain rod. Strategically affixed to a pensile wand are one or more graspers for grasping the delicate impermeable flexible surface of a shower liner for keeping the shower liner in place regardless of strong aerodynamic conditions during a shower. Customary and normal operation of the shower liner remains.
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A shower liner stay installed adjacent a conventional flexible shower liner hanging from a shower curtain rod, comprising:
- at least one substantially and intentionally straight pensile wand hanging vertically beneath a subjective curtain rod position by gravity with a pendent terminator, the subjective curtain rod position selected by a user of the conventional flexible shower liner from any position along the shower curtain rod, the pensile wand unenclosed by the conventional flexible shower liner beside a dry side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner and sandwiching the conventional flexible shower liner between the pensile wand and at least one grasper portion object at a wet side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner, the pendent terminator adjustably located by the user to the subjective curtain rod position and including an end cap with an eyelet installed at a top end of the pensile wand, the eyelet having a loop for the pensile wand hanging vertically beneath the subjective curtain rod position, the conventional flexible shower liner having:
- the wet side surface which faces a showering area,
- the dry side surface which is opposite the wet side surface, and
- no additional design feature for physically engaging the shower liner stay;
- and
- the at least one grasper portion object:
- installed by the user at the wet side surface adjacent a location of the pensile wand,
- enabling the sandwiching the conventional flexible shower liner between the pensile wand and the at least one grasper portion object at the wet side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner to hold in place the conventional flexible shower liner against the pensile wand at the at least one grasper portion object without direct contact of the at least one grasper portion object to the pensile wand,
- adjustably located by the user at the wet side surface adjacent the location of the pensile wand unenclosed by the conventional flexible shower liner beside the dry side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner, and
- providing the only intended engagement of the conventional flexible shower liner to the pensile wand.
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An article of manufacture installed adjacent a conventional flexible shower liner hanging from a shower curtain rod, comprising:
- at least one substantially and intentionally straight pensile wand hanging vertically beneath a subjective curtain rod position by gravity with a pendent terminator, the subjective curtain rod position selected by a user of the conventional flexible shower liner from any position along the shower curtain rod, the pensile wand unenclosed by the conventional flexible shower liner beside a dry side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner and sandwiching the conventional flexible shower liner between the pensile wand and at least one grasper portion object at a wet side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner, the pendent terminator adjustably located by the user to the subjective curtain rod position and including an end cap with an eyelet installed at a top end of the pensile wand, the eyelet having a loop for the pensile wand hanging vertically beneath the subjective curtain rod position, the conventional flexible shower liner having:
- the wet side surface which faces a showering area,
- the dry side surface which is opposite the wet side surface, and
- no additional design feature for physically engaging the article of manufacture;
- and
- the at least one grasper portion object:
- installed by the user at the wet side surface adjacent a location of the pensile wand,
- enabling the sandwiching the conventional flexible shower liner between the pensile wand and the at least one grasper portion object at the wet side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner to hold in place the conventional flexible shower liner against the pensile wand at the at least one grasper portion object without direct contact of the at least one grasper portion object to the pensile wand,
- adjustably located by the user at the wet side surface adjacent the location of the pensile wand unenclosed by the conventional flexible shower liner beside the dry side surface of the conventional flexible shower liner, and
- providing the only intended engagement of the conventional flexible shower liner to the pensile wand.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.