US 7,080,426 B2Granted

Carpet stair rod set

AssigneeBrass Elegans Inc.

InventorRon Roychowdhury

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Abstract

A bracket for retaining a stair rod includes a first bracket portion defining a first bracket plane for affixing the first bracket portion to a stair and a second bracket portion rotatably coupled to the first bracket portion for rotation between bracket open and bracket closed positions and defining a second bracket plane wherein the first and second bracket planes are coplanar only when the bracket is in the bracket closed position. Friction between a surface of the first bracket portion and a surface of the second bracket portion can provides a friction fit between the first and second bracket portions and maintain the bracket in the bracket closed position. An axis is defined by an intersection of the first and second bracket planes wherein the friction fit is provided by friction between the surfaces of the first and second bracket portions in the vicinity of the axis.

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Dependent claims

A bracket system for retaining a stair rod, comprising:

first and second stair rod brackets for disposing said first and second stair rod brackets on a stair and defining an area between said first and second stair rod brackets;
each of said first and second stair rod brackets having a respective first bracket portion defining a respective first bracket plane for affixing said first bracket portions to said stair;
each of said first and second stair rod brackets having a respective second bracket portion rotatably coupled to its first bracket portion for relative rotation of said first and second bracket portions between a bracket open position when rotating said second bracket portions toward said defined area and a bracket closed position when rotating said second bracket portions away from said defined area wherein said relative rotation includes only horizontal rotation of said second bracket portion;
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each of said second bracket portions defining a respective second bracket plane wherein said first and second bracket planes of each of said first and second stair rod brackets are coplanar only when said first and second stair rod brackets are in said bracket closed position.

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