Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – Pleating type – Lazy-tong links pivot about axes parallel to panel
Patent
1993-04-26
1994-08-30
Johnson, Blair M.
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
Pleating type
Lazy-tong links pivot about axes parallel to panel
160 841F, 160134, E06B 906
Patent
active
053418646
ABSTRACT:
An adjustable shade comprising a pleated expandable and collapsible main shade and a pleated expandable and collapsible auxiliary shade on a lower end of the main shade, with the auxiliary shade arranged so that the pleats can fan outwardly from one side edge of the auxiliary shade. Expansion of the one side edge of the auxiliary shade is controlled so that it can form an inverted fan configuration with the one side edge of the shade adjacent the center of the fan configuration. The auxiliary shade is preferably formed in two auxiliary shade sections with each arranged so that it can be moved from a collapsed condition paralleling the pleats in the main shade to an expanded condition with the pleats radiating outwardly from one side edge through the arc of about 90 degrees. The auxiliary shade sections are preferably mounted on a lower rail attached to the lower end of the main shade. The auxiliary shade sections are normally gravitationally urged toward the inverted fan configuration and mechanism is provided for releasably retaining the auxiliary shade sections in a collapsed or folded condition.
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Josephson Paul F.
Rupel John D.
Johnson Blair M.
Pillote Vernon J.
Springs Window Fashions Division, Inc.
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