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Cord operated roman shade

a shade and cord technology, applied in the field of roman shades, can solve the problems of inconvenience of people standing high, and achieve the effect of avoiding damage to the shad

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-08-11
NIEN MADE ENTERPRISE CO LTD
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The present invention provides a roman shade with good safety mechanisms and easy assembly and installation. The shade member has a top rail, bottom rail, and valance connected to the top and bottom rails. The cord assembly has a positioning unit, first device, second device, and at least one cord. The first device is located on the shade member near the bottom rail and the second device is attached to the cord and magnetically attracted to the first device. The cord passes through the positioning unit for manipulation to fold and unfold the valance. The second device is surrounded by a flexible device to prevent damage to the shade.

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Besides, it is inconvenient that people have to stand high to reconnect the magnet 7 of the cord 6 to the magnet 9 near the top rail 8.

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[0021]The present invention provides a roman shade 100. FIG. 3 shows that the roman shade 100 of the present invention is unfolded, and FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 show that the roman shade 100 is folded. The roman shade 100 of the present embodiment of the present invention includes a shade member 10 and a cord assembly 20.

[0022]The shade member 10 includes a top rail 11, a bottom rail 12 and a valance 13, which is a cloth with opposite sides connected to the top rail 11 and the bottom rail 12. The valance 13 is fastened with several parallel bars 14, whose weight may stretch the valance 13, as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 6. FIG. 4 shows the positions of the bars when the valance 13 is folded. The valance 13 is fastened with several pairs of couplers 15 and a pair of rings 16 to connect the bars 14. As shown in FIG. 7, the coupler 15 is a C-ring having a gap 151 and a curved-inward guiding portion 152. The rings 16 are secured at the bar closest to the bottom rail 12.

[0023]The cord assembly 20 ...

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Abstract

A roman shade of the present invention is operated by a cord to fold and unfold it. The cord is connected with a second device to be attracted by a first device provided on a valance adjacent to a bottom rail. The second device and the first device will separate when the cord is pulled with strength greater than a magnetic force between second device and the first device to avoid the cord dropping down and winding around neck or other body parts of the kids nearby.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates generally to a window covering, and more particularly to a roman shade, which is operated by a cord with safety device.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]FIG. 1 shows a conventional roman shade 1 having two cords 2 and 3, and a shade member 4. The cords 2 and 3 have ends fastened to the bottom of the shade member 4, and then have another ends passing through rings 5 on the shade member 4 to form two operating sections 2a and 3a hung at top of the shade member 4 that user may operate the operating sections 2a and 3a to fold or unfold a cloth 4a of the shade member 4. The cords 2, 3 of such roman shade 1 have their ends fastened and the operating sections 2a and 3a hung outside that children may be strangulated by the cords 2, 3 when they play with the roman shade 1. To avoid such accident, some shades with safety device are provided in the present market. For example, a safety devi...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A47H5/02
CPCE06B9/262E06B2009/2622
Inventor WEN, YU-CHEHSU, HAN HSIANG
Owner NIEN MADE ENTERPRISE CO LTD
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