Curtain Hang and Change Device

Abstract

A modular, adjustable device to allow quick hospital curtain installation and changes. It has a hanger track glide assembly rotatably hooked to an upper tube connector which is removably attached to a top end of a cylindrical extension tube. At the bottom end of the extension tube, is a lower tube connector to which a curtain hanger is removably affixed. At the bottom end of the curtain hanger, a hospital curtain is attached. The device allows for quick installation to an existing ceiling curtain track as well as quick, no-ladder removal and replacement of soiled or contaminated hospital curtains. Each hanging assembly is held in an equally spaced configuration from adjacent hanger rod connectors when the curtain is being pulled in tension around the track by a spacer cord.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is as follows: 
     
         1 . A curtain hang and change device, comprising:
 a track glide having a rotatable spool body for rotational gliding, having a suspension assembly with an end hook extending vertically below said spool body;   an upper tube connector having an upper loop connected to said end hook, and an upper tube lock at its bottom end;   an extension tube with an internal linear slot formed there along, said extension tube having a top end and a bottom end and at least one orifice formed therethrough;   a lower tube connector having a lower tube lock at its top end and a curtain hanger trap at its bottom end;   a curtain hanger formed as a hanger disc with a rod extending perpendicularly therefrom having a grommet body attached at its bottom end;   wherein said upper tube lock is engaged into said top end of said extension tube; and   wherein said lower tube lock is engaged into said bottom end of said extension tube; and   wherein said hanger disc is rotatably constrained within said curtain hanger trap.   
     
     
         2 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 1  wherein said rotatable spool body has a central spool tube from which a top end of said suspension assembly hangs, said suspension assembly comprised of a ball chain with said end hook, and a ball chain crimp attached about a top ball of said ball chain. 
     
     
         3 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 1  wherein said upper tube lock comprises at least one compressive side spring with a protrusion thereon that locks into said at least one orifice in said extension tube. 
     
     
         4 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 1  wherein said upper tube connector and said lower tube connector each have a positioning ridge formed there along that is conformed for engagement with said liner slot of said extension tube. 
     
     
         5 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 1  wherein said lower tube lock comprises at least one compressive side spring with a protrusion thereon that locks into said at least one orifice in said extension tube. 
     
     
         6 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 1  wherein said curtain hanger trap is a horizontal trap lock cavity with an upward vertical open throat sized to accommodate said hanger disc, a solid back wall, two slotted side walls each with a horizontal trap bar located above said slot, and a bottom slot formed along said throat and said lock cavity, said bottom slot sized to accommodate said rod of said curtain hanger. 
     
     
         7 . A curtain hang and change device comprising:
 a track glide having a rotatable spool body for rotational gliding, having a suspension assembly with end hook attached therein and extending vertically below said spool body;   an upper tube connector having an upper loop connected to said end hook, a central spacer cord lock collar and an upper tube lock at its bottom end;   a spacer cord with multiple spacer cord locks equidistantly spaced and affixed there along;   an extension tube with an internal linear slot formed there along, said extension tube having a top end and a bottom end;   a lower tube connector having a lower tube lock at its top end and a curtain hanger trap at its bottom end;   a curtain hanger formed as a hanger disc with a rod extending perpendicularly therefrom having a grommet body attached at its bottom end;   wherein said upper tube lock is engaged into said top end of said extension tube; and   wherein said lower tube lock is engaged into said bottom end of said extension tube; and   wherein said hanger disc is rotatably constrained within said curtain hanger trap; and   wherein one of said multiple spacer cord locks is affixed about said spacer cord lock collar.   
     
     
         8 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 7  wherein said equidistant spacing is optimized balancing the friction with increasing the distance between hanging assemblies against the friction increase created by adding additional track glides. 
     
     
         9 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 8  wherein said rotatable spool body has a central spool tube from which a top end of said suspension assembly hangs, said suspension assembly comprised of a ball chain with said end hook, and a ball chain crimp attached about a top ball of said ball chain. 
     
     
         10 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 9  wherein said upper tube lock comprises at least one compressive side spring with a protrusion thereon that locks into said at least one orifice in said extension tube. 
     
     
         11 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 10  wherein said upper tube connector and said lower tube connector each have a positioning ridge formed there along that is conformed for engagement with said liner slot of said extension tube. 
     
     
         12 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 11  wherein said lower tube lock comprises at least one compressive side spring with a protrusion thereon that locks into said at least one orifice in said extension tube. 
     
     
         13 . The curtain hang and change device of  claim 12  wherein said curtain hanger trap is a horizontal trap lock cavity with an upward vertical open throat sized to accommodate said hanger disc, a solid back wall, two slotted side walls each with a horizontal trap bar located above said slot, and a bottom slot formed along said throat and said lock cavity, said bottom slot sized to accommodate said rod of said curtain hanger.