Metal working – Venetian blind assembling
Patent
1997-05-14
1999-12-21
Bryant, David P.
Metal working
Venetian blind assembling
29822, B23P 1904
Patent
active
060032189
ABSTRACT:
A modular assembly station for slotting and stringedly assembling a plurality of window-blind slats for subsequent construction of a window-blind unit. The assembly station includes at least one and preferably two or more slot cutter assemblies having a cutter member for cutting a slot in a slat through which a pull cord can pass a saw cutting assembly for trimming opposite ends of the slat, and a ladder-string applicator in lateral spaced relationship with the cutter assembly and including an entrance chamber for a slat and a ladder string having an opening thereof presented in alignment with the entrance chamber. A conveyor is located between the slot cutter assembly and the entrance chamber of the applicator for receiving a slat from the slot cutter assembly and laterally advancing it to the entrance chamber. Automatic operation of the assembly station is accomplished conventionally whereby respective operator motors or mechanical actuators associated with each step are in communication with a programmable coordinating controller programmed both for precise location placement with respect to the slats and for continuous operation.
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Ayer Terry N.
Jackson Robert
McCarty Michael J.
Schumann Arthur I.
3 Day Blinds, Inc.
Bryant David P.
Butler Marc W.
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