Shower curtain deflector
OwnerTimothy C. Dearmaninventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for deflecting a shower curtain outwardly of a shower stall through the access opening of the stall comprises relatively slideable rods accommodated in a tube which, when bowed, resists relative sliding movement of the rods. The opposite ends of the bowed deflector bear against spaced walls of the shower stall and cause the shower curtain also to be bowed outwardly of the access opening so as to increase the usable space within the stall.
Claims14
A deflector for use in bowing a shower curtain outwardly of a shower stall having two opposed, spaced apart walls and an access opening therebetween, said deflector comprising a pair of side-by-side elongate flexible and resilient rods accommodated within an elongate flexible and resilient tube, one of said rods having a free end extending beyond one end of said tube and the other of said rods having a free end extending beyond the opposite end of said tube, the combined lengths of said rods being greater than the spacing between the walls of said stall thereby enabling the free ends of said rods to bear against said walls and said deflector to bow outwardly of said stall through said opening, said rods and said tube being formed of materials which, when bowed, resist sliding movement of said rods relative to one another.
A deflector for a shower curtain comprising a pair of elongate, resiliently bowable rods in side-by-side relationship;
- and an elongate, resiliently bowable tube having a bore in which an overlapping portion of each of said rods is accommodated, one end of one of said rods extending beyond one end of said tube and one end of the other of said rods extending beyond the opposite end of said tube, said rods having an unstressed condition in which said rods are substantially parallel and relatively slideable but being bowable in the same direction so as to bow said tube, said tube resisting relative sliding movement of said rods when said rods and said tube are bowed.
A deflector for a shower curtain comprising a pair of elongate, resiliently bowable rods in side-by-side relationship;
- and an elongate, resiliently bowable tube having a bore in which an overlapping portion of each of said rods is accommodated, one end of one of said rods extending beyond one end of said tube and one end of the other of said rods extending beyond the opposite end of said tube, said deflector having an unstressed condition in which said tube is substantially linear and rods are substantially parallel and snugly but slideably accommodated in said tube, said deflector being bowable between said free ends of said rods to bow said rods and said tube, thereby increasing resistance to relative sliding movement of said rods within said tube.
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