Retractable shower shade with adjustable extensibility
OwnerPeyton L. Masseyinventor
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Abstract
A practical and safe shower shade that is retractable for storage and extensible for use, and embodied in a housing that is anchored by opposed plates to the opposite stiles of a stall or the like, the retractile force and the extensibility being adjustable upon installation, and manual control being provided for release of the shade for its retraction into the housing for storage. The shade per se, the supporting roller and the housing elements are formed to a dimension (nominal or specified) to accomodate the stall opening, while the mounting plates, retraction means and extension limiting means remain the same for all installations.
Claims10
In combination with a retractile and extensible shade of flexible sheet reeled from a roller journaled upon spaced mounting plates, a revolvably adjustable retraction means fixedly anchored to the mounting plate at one end of the roller and biasing the roller to reel the sheet thereon, a revolvably adjustable extension limiting means fixedly anchored to the mounting plate at the other end of the roller and having a stop engageable with an element positioned by turning of the roller, and a latch means releasably engaging the said element and holding it against said stop.
In combination with a retractile and extensible shade of flexible sheet reeled from a roller journaled upon spaced mounting plates, a revolvably adjustable retraction means fixedly anchored to the mounting plate at one end of the roller and biasing the roller to reel the sheet thereon, a revolvably adjustable extension limiting means comprised of a feed screw fixedly anchored to its mounting plate and projecting through a hub carrying a stop at the end of the roller, a traveling element in the form of a nut threaded onto the feed screw and engageable with the said stop and slideable in and turned by the roller to advance to and retract from said stop, and latch means releasably engaging the said element and holding it against said stop.
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