Patent ID: 7168131

Claim:
An improved curtain corner support apparatus for supporting a portion of a curtain, which is vertically suspended across the open side of a stall enclosure, such as a shower stall area, from a curtain rod, which spans this open side, the support apparatus comprising having means for being slidably attached to the curtain rod and means for attaching and extending an end portion of the curtain inward into the stall area and tangentially meeting a lateral side wall of the stall, the support apparatus further comprising an substantially right triangular, rigid frame with one leg of the frame adapted to be held parallel to the lateral side wall of the stall and the other leg of the frame is adapted to be slidably attached to the curtain rod in parallel alignment with this rod and beneath it, the third hypotenuse side of the frame being shaped into a slightly curved arc, concave inward relative to the interior, bounded region of the frame, this arc side having means for attaching a curtain to the frame and suspending the curtain downward from the frame, the support apparatus further comprising a cantilevered, end weighted, beam member having means for attaching to the frame, at variable moment arm lengths, with the weighted end adapted to extend horizontally outward from the stall area and perpendicularly across the curtain rod above the frame leg, which is adapted to be parallel to the lateral wall, this weighted beam member providing a counterbalance in order to hold the frame horizontal, when the curtain is suspended from it, with the arc side of the frame directed into the stall area.