A curtain runner with an axially removable rod

Abstract

A curtain runner comprising a runner body (10) made of a synthetic resin previously mounted in a curtain rail (40) with a curtain rod (30) vertically mounted to and coupled with the runner body. The rubber body is shaped in a box with a bore (15) in the bottom wall. The rod has a head (31) larger in diameter than the other portion thereof. A sleeve (20) is fitted from the bottom in the bore and provided with top and bottom flanges (21, 22) larger in diameter than the bore. The axial hole (24, 26) of the sleeve except for the top portion (25) thereof, is larger in diameter than the head. The sleeve has the upper portion thereof formed with a plurality of slits (23) to contract the top flange smaller than the bore when it is fitted in the bore and expand the top portion of the axial hole larger than the head when the head passes through the sleeve. The axial hole has its bottom portion (26) which can be downwardly widened in the form of a funnel and provided with a lowermost diameter several times larger than the head, so that the rod is smoothly fitted in the sleeve, even if the rod and the sleeve are axially shifted from each other.

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