Patent Application
20190071922
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The disclosure and prior art relates to barrier devices and more particularly pertains to a new barrier device for enhancing privacy in a bathroom stall.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bathroom stall that has a wall and a door that is hingedly coupled to the wall. A strip is selectively positioned to extend vertically between the door and the wall. The strip is comprised of an opaque material to obstruct vision between the door and the wall. A plurality of adhesive pads is provided. Each of the adhesive pads is coupled to the strip. Each of the adhesive pads adheres to the wall and the door to retain the strip on the wall and the door.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A strip 26 is provided and the strip 26 is selectively positioned to extend vertically between the door 16 and the wall 14. The strip 26 is comprised of an opaque material to obstruct vision between the door 16 and the wall 14. In this way the strip 26 enhances privacy for a user with respect to inhibiting an observer from seeing the user between the door 16 and the well. The strip 26 has a first end 28, a second end 30 and a first surface 32 extending therebetween and the strip 26 is elongated between the first end 28 and the second end 30. The first surface 32 of the strip 26 abuts the door 16 and the wall 14. Moreover, the strip 26 extends between the top edge 22 of the door 16 and the wall 14 and the bottom edge 24 of the door 16 and the wall 14.
A plurality of adhesive pads 34 is provided and each of the adhesive pads 34 is coupled to the strip 26. Each of the adhesive pads 34 adheres to the wall 14 and the door 16 to retain the strip 26 on the wall 14 and the door 16. Each of the adhesive pads 34 is positioned on the first surface 32 of the strip 26. The adhesive pads 34 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed between the first end 28 and the second end 30 of the strip 26.
In an alternative embodiment 36 as shown in
In use, the strip 26 is positioned to extend vertically between the door 16 and the wall 14 the bathroom stall 12 is occupied. The strip 26 is manipulated such that each of the adhesive pads 34 adheres to the wall 14 and the door 16. Thus, the strip 26 covers a gap between the door 16 and the wall 14 thereby enhancing privacy when the bathroom stall 12 is occupied. The strip 26 is removed from the door 16 and the wall 14 when the bathroom stall 12 is finished being occupied and the strip 26 is discarded.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
