Shower curtain assembly

A shower curtain assembly for easy mounting and dismounting relative to a shower rod, comprising:

• a rectangular planar shower curtain sheet, comprising:
• an upper portion having short vertical side edges with straight top and bottom edges extending therebetween, said first portion defining a plurality of equidistantly spaced apart apertures along said top edge;
• a lower portion having long vertical side edges with straight top and bottom edges extending therebetween;
• a plurality of shower curtain fasteners adapted to hang from a shower rod, each hook passing through a respective aperture of said upper portion;
• and
• means for releasably coupling said bottom edge of said upper portion and said top edge of said lower portion together so as to form a waterproof seal therebetween, said coupling means comprising:
• a first flexible plastic fastener strip depending from said bottom edge of said upper portion of said shower curtain and a second flexible plastic fastener strip depending from said top edge of said lower portion of said shower curtain, said first and second fastener strips including interlocking rib and groove profile elements extending longitudinally along respective fastener strips and having complementary configurations such that said rib and groove elements are closed in a mating relationship when said rib and groove elements are pressed together;
• a slider for straddling said first and second fastener strips and adapted to move slidably therealong, said slider having a separator finger configured so as to open or close said rib and groove elements of said first and second fastener strips upon movement of said slider;
• wherein each fastener strip defines a profiled guide track along the length thereof parallel to a respective rib or groove element;
• wherein said slider includes opposed guide members adapted to cooperate with said guide tracks for directing said fastener strips into engagement with said separator finger for opening or closing said rib and groove elements thereof;
• and
• wherein said slider includes an inverted U-shaped plastic member having a back wall for moving along top edges of said fastener strips and opposed end walls depending from said back wall, said guide members being attached to said end walls for cooperating with said guide tracks and said separator finger depending from said back wall between said side walls for insertion between said fastener strips.