Patent ID: 7080426

Claim:
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; and 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.