Curtain stopping device

A curtain positioning assembly comprising in combination:

• an elongated tubular rail for suspending draw curtains or the like,
• said rail including spaced longitudinal track portions flanking a longitudinal slot;
• curtain hanger means mounted on said rail and movable therealong for opening or closing the curtains, the improvement in which said curtain hanger means comprises:
• a plate member having upper roller means disposed within said rail and engaged on inner surface portions of said longitudinal track portion, said plate member having a portion depending through said longitudinal slot of said rail and means for suspending a curtain therefrom;
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• a brake assembly mounted on said plate portion depending through said rail slot, said brake assembly comprising a tubular sleeve anchored on said depending plate portion beneath said rail tracks, said tracks having lower surface portions for engagement with braking means, a braking member reciprocatingly disposed in said sleeve anchored on said plate member, said braking member being displacable relative to said rail and sleeve, spring means disposed in said sleeve in engagement with said braking member and constantly urging the braking member toward said rail, said braking member having braking portions constantly urged toward and engageable with the respective, spaced lower surfaces of said rail track, said braking member having a portion depending through said sleeve for connection to a tension-applying means for overcoming said spring means to permit the curtain hanger means to be readily moved longitudinally along said rail.