Abstract: A fender (3b) for a wheel on an agricultural vehicle having a cab, said fender comprising an inner contour (3d) proximal to the vehicle for attachment to the cab and a distal outer contour (3e) wherein the outer contour is radially inclined with respect to the inner contour.

Abstract: A venetian blind comprises a windup drum for a lifting strap firmly fitted to a drive shaft. Lateral hub portions of a drum are provided with teeth which serve as contact surfaces for two setting straps. Supporting twines for tiltable slats are suspended from the setting straps whose both ends are connected to the associated one of the other strap by connecting plates which act as stop members. Bearing brackets of the drive shaft, accommodated in a supporting housing of the blind, are provided at their bottom with guide webs, for the setting straps and the lifting strap. Stop lugs provided on a bearing bracket in the housing, cooperate on one side with the connecting plate and on the other side with an engaging member of setting strap. During lifting of the blind, the lugs limit the open position of the straps, and during lowering of the blind, they set the predetermined oblique position of the slats.

Abstract: A venetian blind, comprises, a plurality of slats, with a pin extending from either side of each slat and a pair of casings having longitudinal slots for receiving the pins and permitting the longitudinal movement of the slats. The slats are connected by a collapsible ladder support which effects the pivoting of each of the slats as they are extended and retracted. A driven windup shaft is rotatably mounted on the casings and carries a draw member in the form of a chain thereon. An upper carriage part is connected to one end of the draw member. The upper carriage part has a stop surface which is abutable against an end stop to stop the movement of the draw member in one direction. A lower carriage part is slidably connected to the upper carriage part and connected to a lowermost one of the plurality of slats.

Abstract: A venetian blind construction for the operation of blind slats which are interconnected by supporting elements comprises a housing with a sprocket wheel rotatably mounted in the housing. A sprocket chain defines a tension member for the blind slats and it has one end adapted to be connected to the lowermost slat and it is engaged over the sprocket wheel and is movable by the driving movement of the sprocket wheel to adjust the blind slats. The housing has first and second chain-guiding passage portions and a sprocket portion overlying the sprocket which effect the guidance of the chain toward and away from the sprocket and around the sprocket without permitting any buckling-out of the chain in its movement path.

Abstract: A venetian blind construction for use in a building having a recess adjacent a window, comprises, a drive gear for driving the blinds which has a hub portion with a receiving socket for a drive shaft which is contained in a separate venetian blind top box or housing. The drive shaft is supported on spaced apart bearing sleeves contained in the venetian blind housing, and the shaft may be slid axially in the support sleeve bearings after it is first supported on fixed brackets arranged alongside the drive gear so as to cause the shaft to engage in the socket recess to be driven by the drive gear. The shaft is of polygonal section, and it engages in a sleeve of a similar polygonal bore, and the sleeve is rotatably supported in the venetian blind top box housing. Individual slats of the blind are supported on a pull chain which is engaged over a sprocket affixed to a sleeve so that rotation of the drive shaft causes a rotation of the sprocket and movement of the pull chain supporting the blinds.

Abstract: A venetian blind comprises at least two spaced apart support cables and a plurality of slats disposed at spaced locations along the support cables and having respective front and rear edges which are respectively engaged for relative rotation on coupling heads for each edge of the slats mounted on the respective cables in pairs at spaced locations along the lengths thereof. The coupling head also has cable-engagement means in the form of a supporting ring which connects the coupling to the cable in a manner permitting relative rotation therebetween about an axis which is substantially at right angles to the axis of the pivoting of the slats. The construction includes fold-initiating means which are associated with the cables between the coupling heads and which are effective to fold the cables in a preselected fold intermediate the lengths of the cables between the coupling head.

Abstract: The shutter includes a curtain formed of elongated bars hinged to one another at longitudinal edges and guided at their ends in laterally spaced guide grooves extending along opposite sides of an opening to be controlled by the shutter. A rotatable member is mounted in an upper receiving zone, such as a lintel above the opening, and the rolling bar curtain is trained about this member for direction reversal during raising and lowering. The laterally spaced guide grooves extend along the peripheral portion of this rotary member and are then branched to form branch guide grooves extending downwardly from the rotatable element into a recess formed in the lintel or the like. Guide elements, such as pins or rollers on the ends of each bar, cooperate with the branch guide means to conjointly guide the bars to form at least one vertical pile of bars superposed in horizontal orientation in the recess, responsive to raising of the curtain.