Patent ID: 8151385

Claim:
A shower curtain and suspension system comprising a shower curtain having an upper edge, and with a plurality of eye openings spaced along said upper edge; a shower curtain rail having an open interior and a slot extending along an under side thereof; a plurality of glides, each said glide being unitarily formed and having a head member that rides within the rail above said slot, a shaft that projects from said head member and protrudes downwardly through said slot, and a curtain hook member formed at a lower end of said shaft, and attaching onto a respective one of said eye openings of the shower curtain to suspend the shower curtain above a floor of a shower space, such that the upper edge of said shower curtain is beneath the shower curtain rail, with the glides hanging the curtain in hidden fashion so as not to be visible from outside the shower space, but so that the shower curtain rail is visible outside the shower space when the shower curtain is present; and means for suspending the shower curtain rail at an upper part of said shower space; wherein said means for suspending includes a clam-shell two-part wall mount for supporting one end of said shower curtain rail; with said clam-shell wall mount having an A portion that attaches by a screw fastener into a wall at one end of the shower space, and a B portion that installs over an end of the rail and attaches by one or more threaded fasteners to said A portion, with the A portion having a corresponding blind-threaded hole to receive said one or more threaded fasteners, such that screw fastener hardware in the wall mount is not visible from outside the shower space.