Abstract: A protector for a cord or chain of a window treatment is disclosed. The protector includes a control tube having an interior cavity for receiving the cord or chain, a first open end, a second open end, and a closable opening for accessing the cord or chain. In operation, the chain or cord is fed around a pulley positioned within the interior cavity of the control tube. The pulley is rotatable about a shaft insertable through at least one pair of openings in the control tube proximate the first or second open end. A corresponding method of protecting a cord or chain of a window treatment is also disclosed.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide curtain carriers that are attachable to a top portion of a curtain and slidably engageable with a curtain rod for draping the curtain from the curtain rod. The curtain carriers are slidably removable from the curtain rod such that the curtain together with the curtain carriers attached therewith can be removed from the curtain rod. This allows the curtain together with the curtain carriers attached therewith to be washed. A clean curtain with curtain carriers attached therewith can be slidably attached to the curtain rod. In this manner, a dirty or contaminated curtain can be replaced without any hooking or unhooking of the curtain from hooks that are used in existing approaches to drape curtains. Therefore, difficulties traditionally associated with replacing a dirty or contaminated curtain can be mitigated or avoided.