Abstract: An apparatus for operating a vertical louver blind having a plurality of louver carrier trucks slidably mounted within a headrail, wherein each of the carrier trucks includes a louver carrier which is mounted for rotation about a vertical axis, and an operating wand which is selectively engageable with first or second transmissions at any given time.

Abstract: A Roman blind is provided which includes a head rail and a web of fabric material attached at a first end to the headrail. A pair of lifting cords extend from the headtail to a second end of the fabric web, to which they are attached. Two columns of guide elements are provided wherein each column guides a respective lifting cord. The guide elements of each column are arranged also to provide horizontal rows, about which the blind folds when raised. A pair of connecting tapes are disposed between the head rail and the second end of the fabric web. The tapes are secured to the fabric web by the guide elements, whereby unfolding of the fabric web is constrained by the tapes to a pre-defined maximum spacing between vertically adjacent pairs of guide elements, the maximum spacing between the vertically adjacent pairs of guide elements being less than the corresponding length of fabric web disposed between them.

Abstract: A blind 10 which is particularly suitable for mounting at an angle to the vertical includes two rails, one fixed 12 and the other 14 moveable relative to it, and arranged therebetween a flexible sheet element 16 folded concertina fashion such that it can be folded between the rails when they are displaced towards one another. The blind includes a plurality of support members 22 attached to the sheet element which are slideably engageable with a fixed guide element 24. In a preferred embodiment each support member comprises an annular engagement portion 34 for receiving therethrough a guide element a T-shaped connecting portion 30, 32 extending from the annular engagement portion for attaching the support member to the sheet element.