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AssigneeEx-Cell Home Fashions, Inc.
InventorCharles Barrese
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A hook is provided for simultaneously supporting a shower curtain and a shower curtain liner in side by side spaced, parallel relation on a shower curtain rod. The shower curtain and the shower curtain liner each have an opening therein proximate the top edge thereof. The hook includes a portion for engaging the rod. First and second spaced support portions, each of which is connected to the rod engaging portion, are provided. Each of the support portions includes a generally “U” shaped portion defined in part by an upstanding member. The upstanding member of the first support portion is adapted to be received through the opening in the shower curtain to retain the shower curtain. The upstanding member of the second support portion is adapted to be received through the opening in the shower curtain liner to retain the shower curtain liner. The hook is fabricated from a single continuous wire section by making a series of bends therein.
A hook for simultaneously supporting a shower curtain and a shower curtain liner on a rod, each of the shower curtain and the shower curtain liner having an opening therein proximate the top edge thereof, said hook comprising means for engaging the rod, first and second spaced support means, each of said support means being connected to said rod engaging means and comprising a generally “U” shaped portion defined in part by an upstanding member, said upstanding member of said first support means being adapted to be received through the opening in the shower curtain to retain the shower curtain on said “U” shaped portion of said first support means, said upstanding member of said second support means being adapted to be received through the opening in the shower curtain liner to retain the shower curtain liner on said “U” shaped portion of said second support means, such that the shower curtain and the shower curtain liner are supported in side by side spaced relation from the hook.
A method for fabricating a hook for simultaneously supporting a shower curtain and a shower curtain liner on a rod from a single continuous wire section, the method comprising the steps of bending the wire section to form a first “U” shaped bend in the wire section proximate the middle thereof, bending each of the sections of the wire extending from the first bend so as to form spaced parallel second “U” shaped bends therein, each of said second bends defining a recess large enough to receive the rod, and bending the ends of each of the sections extending from the first bend in substantially opposite directions to form first and second “U” shaped portions defining recesses respectively adapted to retain the shower curtain and the shower curtain liner.
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