Patents Assigned to FOURDS LIMITED
  • Patent number: 11713621
    Abstract: A kit of parts for assembling a control assembly for a roller blind includes a plurality of driven parts each having a tubular body with a different diameter and/or profile adapted to be inserted into and drivingly engage a respective roller blind tube. The kit further includes a plurality of mounting parts each having an outer face incorporating a different arrangement of securing formations adapted to be engageable with a respective mounting bracket, and a drive part including (i) a housing adapted to be coupled with any one of the mounting parts and (ii) a drive rotatingly mounted within the housing and adapted to be coupled with any one of the driven parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Fourds Limited
    Inventors: Cormac Diamond, Frank McCullagh, Kevin McCullagh, Patrick McGirr, Kathryn Bleakley
  • Patent number: 11359435
    Abstract: A screen assembly for a window includes a pair of parallel and spaced apart side rails locatable against respective sides of a window opening, and a head assembly including a roller upon which is wound a screen. The head assembly extends between the side rails and is adapted to be mounted on upper ends of the side rails to be supported thereon against and/or adjacent to an upper side of the window opening. Each side rail is linearly extendable whereby the upper and lower ends of the side rails frictionally engage upper and lower faces of a window opening to secure the side rails, and the head assembly mounted thereon, in place within the window opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Fourds Limited
    Inventors: Cormac Diamond, Kevin McCullagh, Patrick McGirr, Shay McGuinness
  • Patent number: 10329840
    Abstract: An operating mechanism is provided for a screen assembly having an elongate endless pull cord hanging from the screen assembly in a loop. The operating mechanism has a housing having an opening at an upper end thereof. At least a lower portion of the pull cord can pass into the housing to be enclosed therein. A guide means for guiding passage of the pull cord through the housing. The guide means has a locking means adapted to selectively restrain first or second sides of a loop defined by the pull cord. The guide means includes a cord-retaining member engaging a lower end of the looped pull cord. The cord-retaining member is moveable within the housing between vertically spaced first and second positions, the second position being above the first position, the cord-retaining member being biased towards the first position by biasing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Fourds Limited
    Inventor: Cormac Diamond
  • Patent number: 9683407
    Abstract: A roller blind assembly includes a roller, a generally rectangular panel formed from a flexible sheet material having an upper marginal edge secured to the roller and a free lower marginal edge, a screen in the form of a web of flexible material being detachably mounted on the free lower marginal of the panel edge via a releasable fastening device, the releasable fastening device comprising cooperating first and second fastening components being respectively provided on the lower marginal edge of the panel and an upper edge of the screen, wherein the first and second fastening components comprise mating elongate members each having a substantially U shaped cross section to define cooperating hook-like members adapted to releasably engage one another to support the screen from the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Fourds Limited
    Inventor: Cormac Diamond
  • Patent number: 9247840
    Abstract: A screen assembly for a window comprising a screen supported by an elongate support member adapted to be mounted in an upper region of the window opening, a pair of mounting brackets being provided for attachment to respective sides of the window opening adjacent the top face of the window opening, each end of the elongate support member having means for engaging a respective mounting bracket, whereby the mounting brackets may be attached the sides of a window opening such that the support member may be engaged onto the mounting brackets to mount the support member in the window opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: FOURDS LIMITED
    Inventors: Cormac Diamond, Kevin McCullagh
  • Publication number: 20140000820
    Abstract: A screen assembly for a window comprising a screen supported by an elongate support member adapted to be mounted in an upper region of the window opening, a pair of mounting brackets being provided for attachment to respective sides of the window opening adjacent the top face of the window opening, each end of the elongate support member having means for engaging a respective mounting bracket, whereby the mounting brackets may be attached the sides of a window opening such that the support member may be engaged onto the mounting brackets to mount the support member in the window opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: FOURDS LIMITED
    Inventors: Cormac Diamond, Kevin McCullagh
  • Patent number: D825953
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Fourds Limited
    Inventor: Cormac Diamond
  • Patent number: D825954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Fourds Limited
    Inventor: Cormac Diamond
  • Patent number: D909090
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Fourds Limited
    Inventors: Cormac Diamond, Kevin McCullagh, Patrick McGirr, Kathryn Bleakley
  • Patent number: D949596
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FOURDS LIMITED
    Inventors: Cormac Diamond, Patrick McGirr, Kathryn Bleakley
  • Patent number: D968032
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Fourds Limited, Huhtamaki Foodservice Delta Limited
    Inventors: Cormac Diamond, Kevin McCullagh, Frank McCullagh, Damien Burns, Shay McGuiness, Patrick McGirr