Patent ID: 6688479
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: A47H

Abstract:
A U-shaped curtain rod, comprising:an adjustable rod, two knuckle joints, and two mounting plates; said adjustable rod including two telescoping hollow tubes, and two outer ends of said hollow tubes defining two male connectors; each of said knuckle joints including laterally symmetrical hollow inner and outer connecting arms, two outer ends of the connecting arms comprising two female connectors adapted to tightly be received in respective ones of said male connectors of said adjustable rod, and two laterally symmetrical adjusting blocks connected at outer ends to two inner ends of said two connecting arms and at inner ends to each other; and said adjusting blocks include a plurality of adjusting teeth at contact surfaces therebetween that permit said connecting arms of said knuckle joints to be pivotable with respect to each other; and each of said mounting plates including a fixing base with two mounting holes, and a support bracket extending forwardly from an outer edge of said fixing base at a right angle relative to said fixing base; said support brackets each including a smoothly curved lower front corner having an engaging nose and an upwardly extending upper front corner having a retaining projection adapted to rotatably engage a round retaining hole provided on any of said connecting arms of said knuckle joints such that said knuckle joints are mountable on the mounting plates, so that telescoping movement of said adjustable rod will vary the distance between said adjustable rod and a wall to which said mounting plates are mounted.