Patent ID: 7194841

Claim:
A dressing room, comprising: a vertically extending rigid wall structure forming a partially enclosed space and defining a vertically extending opening between opposite sides of said wall structure that forms an entrance to said rigid wall structure; a plurality of beam members arranged at an upper end of said wall structure and having a curtain suspended therefrom; and a guiding mechanism that supports said plurality of beam members at base ends thereof for movement between a closed position of said curtain closing said entrance, in which position said curtain extends between said opposite sides of said wall structure, and an open position of said curtain in which said entrance is open, wherein: said beam members project outwardly relative to said wall structure in a substantially horizontal position, and said guiding mechanism guides said base ends of said beam members such that when tip ends of said beam members are positioned above said entrance, spacing between said tip ends of adjacent ones of said beam members is wider than at said base ends, and such that when said tip ends are positioned to one side of said entrance, spacing at said tip ends of adjacent ones of said beam members is narrower than when positioned above said entrance; wherein when said guiding mechanism guides said plurality of beam members to said closed position so that said curtain closes said entrance, a larger amount of horizontal area is occupied and enclosed by said wall structure and said curtain together than when said entrance is open in said open position of said curtain.