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US 7,909,082 B2Granted
Two-component shower curtain
OwnerDouglas Peoplesinventor
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Abstract
A zippered together shower curtain and valance in which the valance remaining on the shower support rod after the curtain is unzipped for laundering masks the upper zipper track from view and has other attendant benefits.
Claims1
A two-component shower curtain of a type in an in-use condition suspended from a shower support rod and in a laundering condition disconnected from said support rod, said one-component comprising:
- A. a shower curtain of plastic construction material constituted as
- a. a rectangular shape having an upper edge and a bottom edge;
- b. a zipper lower track in sewn attachment along said shower curtain upper edge;
- and said second-component comprising:
- B. a valance of plastic construction material constituted as
- c. an elongated first rectangular strip having an upper edge and a bottom edge;
- d. plural adjacent spaced apart edges bounding openings in said upper edge for receiving therein grommets for attachment to said support rod;
- e. a zipper upper track in sewn attachment along said valance lower edge;
- f. an elongated second rectangular strip in sewn attachment at a selected location between said upper and bottom edges;
- and
- g. said selected location of said sewn attachment positioning said second rectangular strip in a depending overlapping relation over said zipper upper track;
- whereby when said shower curtain is unzippered from said support rod into said laundering condition thereof, said valance remains to mask said zipper upper track from view to contribute to an enhanced shower curtain appearance.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.