Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – Plural and/or with rigid closure – Diverse types
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-06
2001-02-13
Stodola, Daniel P. (Department: 3634)
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
Plural and/or with rigid closure
Diverse types
C160S084040
Reexamination Certificate
active
06186213
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to the field of panel units having several vertical blind vanes. More particularly, the present invention relates to a cover in the nature of a curtain or drape removably mounted on an array of vertical blind vanes.
2. Background Art
A common covering system for a window is a vertical blind, having vertical vanes rotatable about vertical axes to an open or closed position. The covering system may further include a decorative cover mounted to the vertical blinds to thereby add esthetic qualities to the covering system. In some cases, the decorative cover may be removable from the blind vanes to enable a consumer to clean the removed decorative cover or to replace the removed decorative cover. A convenient mounting and dismounting of such removable decorative covers is therefore highly desired by consumers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
While the actual nature of the present invention can only be determined with reference to the claims appended hereto, certain of its features of one embodiment of the invention can be described briefly. A vertical blind system includes a conventional vertical blind vane mechanism. The blind vane mechanism provides rotational movements of the vertical vanes about vertical axes. Mechanisms can be used which either also provide traversing movement to the blind vanes, or which do not. Several vertical blind vanes are coupled to the vane mechanism, and a continuous blind vane cover is removably mounted near the top of each vane with pairs of connectors connecting through holes or with snaps attaching from opposite sides of each vane.
No limitations are contemplated as to a particular embodiment of the blind vane mechanism employed in a vertical blind system of the present invention, and any conventional mechanism can be used, provided vanes are adapted for use with connectors near their tops for mounting the blind vane cover of the invention as claimed below. The present invention further contemplates that the vertical blind vanes and the blind vane covers can have any configuration, can have any suitable dimensions, can be made from any suitable material, and may or may not be decorative. Consequently, the illustrations and accompanying description herein of the preferred embodiments of blind vanes, and blind vane covers are given solely for purposes of describing the best mode of the present invention and are not meant to be limiting as to the scope of the present invention in any way.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a vertical blind system having several vertical blind vanes and a blind vane cover that can be conveniently mounted to and dismounted from the blind vanes.
Related objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiment.
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Oxford House
Stodola Daniel P.
Thompson Hugh B.
Woodard Emhardt Naughton Moriarty & McNett
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