Abstract: A wall opening covering is disclosed. The covering includes a take up member attached to a support assembly. The take up member is rotatable in a first direction and a second direction and the support assembly is configured and arranged to fasten to a wall opening. A lifting member is retained by the take up member. A front panel is suspended in the wall opening and connected to the lifting member. The front panel is movable between a first position and a second position whereby rotation of the take up member in the first direction gathers the lifting member thereby drawing the front panel to the first position and rotation of the take up member in the second direction releases the lifting member thereby drawing the front panel to the second position. The wall opening covering may further include a transmission assembly driving the take up member.

Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes a housing, a roller, and a screen. The housing defines a space therein, and is formed with a slot. The roller is disposed rotatably in the space and has small-diameter and large-diameter end parts. The screen is wound on the roller and has a free end portion, and short and long lateral end portions. The free end portion extends outwardly of the housing through the slot. The short and long lateral end portions are connected to the free end portion and are adjacent to the small-diameter and large-diameter end parts, respectively. The screen is operable between a retracted state, where the free end portion is adjacent to the roller, and an extended state, where the free end portion is distal from the roller so as to unwind the screen. The long lateral end portion has a length longer than that of the short lateral end portion when the screen is at the extended state.

Abstract: A shim for reducing play between a roller blind tube and a roller blind end plug, the shim including a rib receiving portion sized and configured to receive a rib from a roller blind tube, wherein the shim is capable of being located between adjacent splines of a roller blind end plug.

Abstract: An apparatus for the safe closure of the open area of mobile containers, having a tarp connected to a spring loaded tarp assembly and to the container by brackets. These brackets allow the tarp to be lowered and raised using the spring loaded tarp assembly. A metal plate at the bottom of the tarp is used to secure the bottom of the trap while in the closed position. The spring loaded tarp assembly comprises three main components a sleeve, a rod, and tension springs. The rod allows the free flow rotation of the sleeve with the tension spring acting as a back stop.

Abstract: A roller blind mounting system including at least one roller, at least one telescopic end plug and at least two brackets. The telescopic end plug is engageable within an end-opening of one of said rollers. The end plug includes a hollow body and a telescopically movable member or plunger co-axially positionable with respect to the hollow body such that a first axial extending length portion of the plunger projects from the hollow body and a second axial extending length portion is held within the hollow body. The plunger is telescopically movable between a first end position in which the first portion of the plunger projects from the cylindrical body and a second end position in which at least part of the first portion is inserted into the cylindrical body.

Abstract: The roller shade is provided which contains a transparent first fabric piece, a transparent second fabric piece, and a third fabric piece composed of a number of transparent lateral sections and opaque lateral sections alternately pieced together. The third fabric piece is sandwiched between the first and second fabric pieces. The first, second, and third fabric pieces are pulled through a device which contains two extensible arms capable of conducting high-frequency fusion. The two extensible arms alternately press the third fabric piece against the first and second fabric pieces at appropriate intervals and conduct high-frequency fusion so that any two adjacent transparent lateral sections are fused to the first and second fabric pieces, respectively, while the opaque sections are thereby held between the first and second fabric pieces.

Abstract: An end cap for use in a shade assembly for use in a vehicle wherein the end cap is a rotating end cap. The end cap is capable of rotating and twisting and includes a base and a rotating connector partially arranged within an end of the base. The rotating end cap also includes an extension with the rotating connector partially arranged within an end of the extension. The rotating end cap will allow for the end cap to effectively reduce its length by rotating the extension with relation to the base from a generally parallel position to one having an orthogonal position between the extension and base.

Abstract: A support assembly is provided for a roller tube having a sheet material wound therearound. The support assembly has opposed first and second mounts adapted to support the roller tube, which is rotatably coupled to the mounts. At least one support cradle is disposed between the first and second mounts. The support cradle is configured to support the roller tube along a length thereof A biasing member is arranged to reduce a force of the roller tube in a direction toward the support cradle, thereby preventing the sheet material from binding against the support cradle as it winds and/or unwinds.

Abstract: A roller blind mounting system including at least one roller, at least one telescopic end plug and at least two brackets. The telescopic end plug is engageable within an end-opening of one of said rollers. The end plug includes a hollow body and a telescopically movable member or plunger co-axially positionable with respect to the hollow body such that a first axial extending length portion of the plunger projects from the hollow body and a second axial extending length portion is held within the hollow body. The plunger is telescopically movable between a first end position in which the first portion of the plunger projects from the cylindrical body and a second end position in which at least part of the first portion is inserted into the cylindrical body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plug for releasable engagement with the centre-pin of a roller blind control unit wherein engagement of the plug with the pin ensures that a tip of the center-pin engages an external surface of the control unit. In addition, a releasably inter-engaging combination of this plug and center-pin wherein insertion of the center-pin through a roller blind control unit and engagement with the plug, ensures that a tip of the center-pin engages an external surface of the control unit is described. The invention also relates to a control unit for use in a window blind head rail assembly comprising: a sprocket wheel, a sprocket support and wrap spring, a splined bush for engagement with a roller blind tube, a center-pin, and a plug for releasable engagement with the center-pin.

Abstract: An end mounting for supporting the roller of a cover for an architectural opening, the end mounting including a main body of substantially constant cross-section extending axially from a proximal end for mounting adjacent an architectural opening to a distal end for insertion into an end opening of a roller. A slider is mounted in the main body at an axial location towards the proximal end of the main body and is movable between a retracted position wholly within the cross-section of the main body and an extended position in which at least part of the slider protrudes outside the cross-section of the main body. With the slider in the retracted position, substantially all of the main body can be inserted into the end opening of the roller and, with the slider in the extended position, the main body is prevented by the slider from being inserted into the end opening of the roller beyond the slider.

Abstract: A horizontal-pulling roll screen door for which the right/left hand can be set or changed easily and safely even by a layman and in a screen door in which a net wound up by a winding shaft of a movable stile is made capable of opening/closing by horizontal pulling. First and second caps rotatably supporting the winding shaft are mounted at the both ends of the movable stile capable of replacement by each other. A lock mechanism which can hold a locked state as necessary is provided between a connecting cylindrical shaft connected to the winding shaft and an intermediate support member connected to the first or the second cap unrotatably and removably. Rotation of the winding shaft by an urging force of a winding spring is prevented by this lock mechanism even when the both caps are removed for assembling or change of the right/left hand.

Abstract: A pleated roller shade system allows a thin flexible shade fabric, such as, for example, silk, to be wrapped around a roller tube. The pleated roller shade system comprises a drive system, such as a motor or manual drive system, for controlling of the rotation of the roller tube. The roller shade system may comprise a pleating hembar that is contained within a hembar pocket of the shade fabric and has a non-linear shape for causing the shade fabric to hang with a plurality of pleats. The roller shade system may also comprise an elongated pleating assembly mounted parallel to the roller tube and having a fabric-receiving opening that defines a non-linear path. The shade fabric may be received through the fabric-receiving opening and folded by the pleating assembly, such that the shade fabric is wrapped around the roller tube in folds as the roller tube rotates.

Abstract: A side cover of a roller blind frame rail for closing an opening of a tail end of the roller blind frame rail. The side cover includes: a closing board as a main body, the closing board having a fixing rest shelf perpendicularly projecting from the closing board and positioned adjacent to an upper edge thereof, two vertical breaking flutes being respectively formed on two sides of an inner face of the closing board, the breaking flutes extending through the closing board from a lower edge of the closing board to the upper edge thereof; a locating post projecting from a center of the inner face of the closing board; and three insertion plates perpendicularly projecting from the inner face of the closing board. The three insertion plates are a transverse insertion plate and two vertical insertion plates.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device with a curtain (2) that can be rolled up and unrolled between a shut position and an open position comprising, near the lateral edges (3) on each face, a serrated belt (1,6) extending parallel to said lateral edges (3), whereby each of the belts (1,6) has successive teeth (5,8). The lateral face of the teeth, extending in the longitudinal direction of the corresponding lateral edge (3) of at least one of the belts (1,6) provided on a face of the curtain (2) rests on a supporting element when the curtain (2) is rolled up. This supporting element is provided on the other face of the curtain (2).

Abstract: A portable roll up window blind has an adjustable length and is removably mountable within the frame of a window. The blind has shell housing of an adjustable length and a telescopic winding core mounted between two end plates of the shell housing. One of the end plate is slidable and adjustable by a wedging means for pressing against the adjacent side wall of the window frame so that the two end plates cooperate with one another to secure the blind at a selected position in the window frame. The window blind panels are wound on the winding core in an overlapping manner. The winding core has one end engage with a round support pin located on the inner surface of the one end plate, and the other end engaged with a rotary shaft having a multi-sided cross sectional shape. The rotary shaft is rotatable by a pull chain for raising or lowering the window blind panels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a roll type blind mounted in a window for preventing light from being introduced from the outside or leaking from the inside of a room. In the blind for adjusting height and brightness made of a thick blind material according to the present invention, an inner blind material and an outer blind material of the thick blind material hang down in a tensed state by a pre-weight element and they always keep an equal width therebetween.

Abstract: A window shade for use in an automotive vehicle is disclosed. The window shade includes a roll tube having a shade panel fixed to the roll tube at one end thereof. The window shade also includes a center bearing ranged within the roll tube. The window shade also includes an end bearing arranged at each end of the tube. The window shade also includes a cord arranged over the center bearing and within, the roll tube. The window shade also has an axle arranged in each end thereof with the cord passing through an orifice and wrapped around the end of each axle within the interior of the roll tube.

Abstract: The modular drum according to the present invention consists of a central tubular profile (7a) made of steel or of a composite having in cross section a square or rectangular profile forming the central part or core of the said drive drum (7) and a demountable flexible shell (7m) having an external profile (7d) in the form of a portion of a cylinder and a flat and rectilinear internal profile (7e) complementary to that of the tubular profile (7a) so that the said drive drum (7) has a cylindrical external profile that can be deformed elastically under external pressure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a curtain support assembly to receive a curtain rail for a curtain for separating at least two regions in a cabin of a vehicle, comprising two or more header components for covering a space formed between the curtain rail and a ceiling in the cabin. The assembly according to the invention distinguishes itself from the state of the art in that between the header elements, for the purpose of holding objects, a hollow space is formed that is accessible by way of one or several closable openings to the cabin. In a further improvement, a roller is integrated in the hollow space, by way of which roller the curtain may be rolled up or down and may easily be stowed away.

Abstract: A support assembly for use on a shade in a vehicle is disclosed. The support assembly includes a base end cap and a nose insulator secured to an end of the base end cap. The support assembly also includes a removable extension arranged over the nose insulator and a portion of the base end cap. A second nose insulator is secured to an end of the removable extension for interaction with an inside surface of the vehicle.

Abstract: A wire winding device includes a case, a reel received in the case for winding a wire thereon, a restricting member for restricting/releasing the reel, and a resilient member for interconnecting the case and the reel and rotating the reel and being movable with reel in an axis direction of the reel when the reel starts to rotate.

Abstract: A security shade for use in an automotive vehicle. The security shade includes a roll tube having shade panel affixed to the roll tube at one end thereof. The security shade also includes a center bearing arranged around the cord and within the roll tube. The security shade further includes a compression bearing arranged at each end of the tube. The security shade may also include an end cap arranged over each end of the tube and compression bearing.

Abstract: An automatic winding device of a roll screen is disclosed. A screen is automatically rolled up when a user pulls a ball chain down and the screen is automatically stopped when the user just releases the ball chain, to thereby adjust a height of the screen simply and easily. A lower end of the screen is prevented from colliding with the winding device when the screen is rolled up, to thereby create a silent and comfortable indoor environment.

Abstract: A roller screen device includes a fixed sectional element (10) and a mobile sectional element (11) that is able to move parallel to the fixed sectional element inside a frame contained in which is a screen (13), the mobile sectional element (11) bearing a roller (12) inside it, wound on which is the screen (13), which, at the other end, is anchored to the fixed sectional element (10). Guide elements (14 and 24) for guiding the mobile sectional element (11) are positioned at the top and at the bottom of the screen (13) and fixed at one end to the mobile sectional element (11), whilst the other ends of the guide elements (14) slide into the fixed sectional element (10). Moreover provided is a system for tensioning the guides (14 and 24), which acts during the steps of opening and closing of the screen (13).

Abstract: A protective device for a vehicle interior having a flexible sheetlike structure which is provided on opposite sides with side edge regions, and having a winding shaft which is rotatably mounted and on which the sheetlike structure is held such that it can be wound up and unwound, and having a dimensionally rigid pull-out profile which is fixedly connected to the sheetlike structure in a front face end region of the sheetlike structure in the unwinding direction is known. According to the invention, each side edge region of the sheetlike structure is assigned at least one deflecting guide means which, in a force-fitting and/or form-fitting manner, transmits a tensile force component, which acts outward transversely with respect to the winding-up or unwinding direction of the sheetlike structure, to the side edge region. Use for passenger vehicles.

Abstract: A head rail or head rail assembly for an architectural closure, the head rail including an elongate front wall having left hand and right hand longitudinal ends and an elongate bottom wall having left hand and right hand longitudinal ends. A left hand end structure is positioned adjacent to the left hand longitudinal end of the bottom wall and a right hand end structure is positioned adjacent to the right hand longitudinal end of the bottom wall. A first slot is defined between the left hand end structure and the left hand longitudinal end of the bottom wall and a second slot is defined between the right hand end structure and the right hand longitudinal end of the bottom wall. At least one of the first and second slots is closed by a removable closure.

Abstract: A shade for architectural openings incorporating a single cord drive featuring automatic braking of the shade when the user releases the drive cord. In a preferred embodiment, an automatic tilt-open mechanism is provided to tilt the shade open when the shade is in the fully extended down position.

Abstract: An end cap for use in a shade assembly for use in a vehicle wherein the end cap is a rotating end cap. The end cap is capable of rotating and twisting and includes a base and a rotating connector partially arranged within an end of the base. The rotating end cap also includes an extension with the rotating connector partially arranged within an end of the extension. The rotating end cap will allow for the end cap to effectively reduce its length by rotating the extension with relation to the base from a generally parallel position to one having an orthogonal position between the extension and base.

Abstract: 1. Protection device with replaceable adaptor parts. 2.1. The invention relates to a protection device for a motor vehicle with a blind or screen functional unit comprising a flexible fabric which can be wound up and down with respect to a blind or screen shaft and which is terminally provided with adaptor parts replaceably fittable to end caps of the screen functional unit for a vehicle-individual, positive and/or non-positive fitting within a vehicle interior. 2.2. Use for a vehicle interior.

Abstract: A shade roller has a seat, a loop hooked onto the seat, a side cover, a planet wheel engaged with the loop, a chain-retaining wheel secured in the side cover, a driving wheel engaged with the planet wheel, a beaded chain, and a fixing block engaged with the driving wheel. When the beaded chain is pulled, the planet wheel revolves around a fixing pin, and causes the driving wheel and the fixing block to revolve together, whereby a curtain can be raised or lowered.

Abstract: A shade for architectural openings incorporating a single cord drive featuring automatic braking of the shade when the user releases the drive cord. In a preferred embodiment, an automatic tilt-open mechanism is provided to tilt the shade open when the shade is in the fully extended down position.

Abstract: A manual roller shade includes a clutch mechanism having a gear train transferring rotation of an input sprocket to rotation of an output member engaging a roller tube. The gear train includes a sun gear, planet gears supported by a carrier and engaging the sun gear, and a ring gear engaging the planet gears. According to one embodiment, the carrier does not rotate. The ratio between the diameters of the input sprocket and the roller tube is selected to offset mechanical advantage of the gear train to provide an effective gear train ratio of approximately 2:1. A drive chain guide system includes spaced guide wheels controlling where a drive chain is suspended from the manual shade. A roller shade mounting system includes a bracket receiving either an input assembly of the manual roller shade or a motor of a motorized roller shade to facilitate conversion.

Abstract: A roller blind tube with fabric wound around it is mounted in brackets that have spade-shaped elements (3) provided in the axis. These elements cooperate with oblong holes (2) in terminating plugs (1) in the roller blind tube. According to the invention the oblong holes (2) are opened by rotating excentrically built rings (8). Hereby the roller blind may be hung on the brackets, whereupon the rings (8) are closed again.

Abstract: A support mechanism for a vehicle security shade having one or more axially biased end caps and at least one end cap extension slidingly disposed upon an end cap to adjust the length of the security cover assembly. The end cap has a resilient latch which engages mating recesses in the extension to fix the length of the shade as desired.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a blind of a roll type comprising a blind sheet having alternate transparent and opaque parts and partly overlapped by folding, to easily and efficiently adjust room illumination. The blind comprises a upper-end support bar; a pair of brackets provided at both ends of the upper-end support bar, standing opposite to each other; a winding rod of which both ends are rotatably fitted into the respective brackets; an adjusting cord provided between one bracket and the winding rod to rotate the winding rod through a sprocket member; a blind sheet comprising alternate transparent and opaque parts and folded to have one end secured to the winding rod and the other end secured to the upper-end support bar; and a weight body provided at a lower end of the blind sheet to stretch the blind sheet tight.

Abstract: A covering mechanism for covering a portion of a vehicle. The covering mechanism includes a cassette, at least one inner end cap disposed at an end of the cassette, and at least one outer end cap disposed over the inner end cap. The outer end cap is movable between a retracted position and an extended position.

Abstract: A sunshade for a vehicle such as an automobile includes a housing that is adapted to be mounted to a vehicle window and a drum member mounted for rotation within the housing about which a flexible, weblike shade element is wound. A retraction mechanism is provided for enabling the shade element to be moved from a first, retracted position wherein most of the shade element is wrapped about the drum member and a second, extended position wherein the shade element is at least partially unwrapped from the drum member. The retraction mechanism includes a biasing mechanism for biasing the drum member so that the shade element is urged toward the first, retracted position, and an arresting mechanism that is constructed and arranged so as to permit the drum member to be stopped when the shade element is in the second, extended position and, in addition, in at least one intermediate position that is between the first, retracted position and the second, extended position.

Abstract: In an adjustable mounting system for a sunscreen a cap on one end of a housing for the screen has a pivot stud that is received in a bearing opening in a post hingedly connected to base. The hinge connection is preferably provided by a cylindrical keyway and cylindrical key combination.

Abstract: A roller tube support mechanism includes a roller tube including a roller tube body. The roller tube is configured to support a sheet material wound around the roller tube body along a length of the roller tube body between a first end and a second end of the roller tube body. An assembly includes a first mount and a second mount opposite the first mount. The assembly is configured to support the roller tube rotatably coupled to the first mount and the second mount. A support cradle is coupled to the assembly between the first mount and the second mount. The support cradle is configured to support the roller tube along the length of the roller tube.

Abstract: A control unit for use in a window blind head rail assembly includes a sprocket wheel, a chain guard housing, a sprocket support and wrap spring, a splined bush for engagement with a roller blind tube and a center pin, wherein the center pin has a center-pin head and a body, the center-pin head including one or more fins adapted to co-operatively engage with one or more recesses in the sprocket support.

Abstract: A window shade component group which includes a window shade supporting windup shaft with bearing devices for rotatably supporting opposite ends of the windup shaft. At least one of the bearing devices is provided with a blocking device, which is effective for maintaining a spring drive of the windup shaft in the wound position after assembly of the windup shaft. Following installation of the window shade component group in a motor vehicle or appropriate housing, the blocking device is releasable as an incident to actuation of the windup shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roller blind, particularly a window roller blind, for motor vehicles, with a winding shaft, a mounting arrangement for mounting the winding shaft with variable alignment, a blind which is windable up on the winding shaft, and in the region of each end of the winding shaft a respective spring means arrangeable stationary with respect to the motor vehicle and engaging in the region of the respective winding shaft end for automatic alignment of the winding shaft 6. The mounting arrangement in the region of each spring means has a moveable bearing for moveably mounting the respective winding shaft end in a direction substantially parallel to the pulling direction of the blind.

Abstract: A screen is constructed to have a screen case, a support member fastened to one side of the screen case and a reel pivotally mounted inside the screen case and rolling up a screen body. The reel has a flat inside stop face and a plug member is fixedly fastened to one end of the reel. An axle is suspended inside the reel, the axle having a first end fixedly fastened to the screen case and a second end fastened pivotally with the plug member. A spring member is sleeved onto the axle inside the reel, the spring member having a first end terminating in a projecting portion stopped at the flat inside stop face of the reel and a second end fixedly connected to one end of the axle.

Abstract: Generally speaking, in accordance with the invention, an improved window treatment system is provided. The system includes a head rail, a spring clutch disposed at one end of the head rail and an idler disposed at the other end of the head rail. Significantly, a pair of universal brackets, one coupled to the spring clutch and the other coupled to the idler, are used. Each bracket is suitable for fixedly mounting either the clutch or the idler at either end of the head rail. The brackets are identical.

Abstract: A roller shade mounting system includes a pair of assemblies for limiting sagging in a roller shade tube. The assembly includes a single bearing supported by a shaft to position the bearing at a distance from an end of the tube. Alternatively, the assembly includes a bearing pair supported by a shaft to define spaced support points for applying a reaction moment the roller tube. The assembly further includes an attachment member secured to the shaft at a first end and to the structure at an opposite second end, either directly, or to a mounting bracket secured to the structure. The mounting assembly may further include a deflection adjustment member engaging the attachment member and a fixed support member to provide variable control of roller tube deflection.

Abstract: A rollup door comprising a door leaf of increasing width from top to bottom and having a narrower part on the top and a wider part on the bottom, and flexibility in the rolling direction; channels for guiding the door; and two modules for rolling and unrolling the door leaf so that a number of leaf layers do not come in contact. The modules are situated on each side of the door, have the same center axes and are successive radially enlarged so that on opening and closing of the door, the narrower and wider parts of the leaf engage the smaller and larger parts respectively of the modules.

Abstract: A cassette system for window treatment includes a head rail with a base, end brackets attached to the base in a facing relationship and at least one roller blind with a mandrel and a decorative panel that is wound on the mandrel. The panel can be selectively drawn off the mandrel by rotation thereof. The end brackets are identical and mate with end plugs on the mandrel to rotationally support the roller blind. In an alternate embodiment, two or more roller blinds are supported by intermediate brackets or by an intermediate bracket and an end bracket. The end plugs on the madrel(s) have identical shapes to mate with respective legs on the end brackets.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle roller assembly for an extensible shade or barrier net, and an auto locking end cap assembly for a vehicle roller assembly. The end cap includes a mounting cap positioned at an end of a rotatable shade spindle. The cap body has an end plate and is reciprocable between a retracted position and an extended position. A coupling member having a finger member is positioned at least partially within the end cap assembly and has a cutout region proximate an end. When the cap body is moved toward its retracted position, the cutout region is exposed, and capable of engaging a portion of a securing member in a vehicle interior. A biasing member biases the cap body toward its extended position, engaging two elements of a locking means. The locking means includes a boss and a cavity, a mating of which secures the cap body against lateral displacement and axial rotation.

Abstract: A support for a window screening device includes a first pair of bracket members (6) for mounting on each of a pair of opposed parallel frame surfaces (2) engageable by the screening device. Each bracket member includes a relatively flat front part protruding from the frame surface and having a substantially smooth external surface, and the engaging mechanism (11-12; 111-112; 33-34) is provided by each coupling member (7; 107; 207; 307; 36) and includes a first engaging mechanism in the form of at least one contact surface on the coupling member engaging a circumferential surface part of a bracket member to provide temporary engagement therewith and non-resilient second engaging mechanism providing stable engagement of the coupling member with respect to the frame structure.