Patent ID: 6336232
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
A curtain particularly adapted for use in enclosing a front opening into a shower stall of the type having opposed side walls, a floor and omitting a low front sill or wall of the type that normally cooperates with a shower curtain or shower door to seal the front opening into the shower stall, said curtain including a flexible sheet member having a transversely extending upper edge, and opposed elongated side edges, side flexible sheet member being attachable in an upper region adjacent the upper edge to an upper supporting member adjacent the front opening into the shower stall for movement between an extended, generally planar orientation closing the front opening and a clasped, generally folded orientation permitting access into the shower stall through the front opening, said flexible sheet member including a front panel and elongate side regions on opposed sides of said front panel, said elongate side regions extending rearwardly and including fastening members along an elongate section thereof for cooperating with fastening members on the opposite side walls of the shower stall to close opposed sides of the front opening, weights disposed transversely along a lower region of the sheet member, said sheet member including a lower bottom panel spaced below the weights in the region of said front panel, said bottom panel extending rearwardly, said rearwardly extending bottom panel and said rearwardly extending elongate side regions being joined together adjacent edges thereof.