Patent ID: 7748673
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: A47H,A47K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A hook for simultaneously supporting a shower curtain and a shower curtain liner on a rod, each of the shower curtain and the shower curtain liner having an opening therein proximate the top edge thereof, said hook comprising: a single continuous wire having a first bend proximate a mid section of the single continuous wire and first and second sections extending from the first bend in a generally parallel, spaced relationship to second and third bends of the single continuous wire, wherein each of the second and third bends are generally perpendicular to the first bend and collectively the first, second, and third bends define a recess to engage the rod, wherein the first section extends from the second bend to a fourth bend of the single continuous wire and the second section extends from the third bend to a fifth bend of the single continuous wire, wherein the fourth and fifth bends are directed generally opposite from and away from one another, and wherein the first section extends from the fourth bend to an end of the first section defining a first upstanding outer member for engaging the opening of the shower curtain and the second section extends from the fifth bend to an end of the section defining a second upstanding outer member for engaging the opening of the shower curtain liner and wherein the first and second sections extend toward one another from the second and third bends to the fourth and fifth bends such that a distance between the first and second sections at the second and third bends generally decreases as the first and second sections extend from the second and third bends to the fourth and fifth bends.