Slat for a blind and blind formed therefrom
AssigneeNavus Consulting, CC
InventorMarlene Badenhorst
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Abstract
A blind made up of a plurality of customisable rigid slats enables the blind to be fitted snugly within any window opening or doorway as a result of the locking adjustability of the width of such slats. The slats each include a pair of elongate slat panels movable relative to one another between retracted and extended conditions, such that the operative width of the blind is greater in the extended condition than in the retracted condition. The blind further includes one or more fasteners, located at or near each of a pair of minor ends of the slat panels, for releasably fixing the pair of slat panels to one another in the retracted condition, the extended condition and/or any condition there between, thereby to operatively restrict relative movement between the slat panels in such condition.
Claims15
A blind including:
- a slat having:
- (i) a pair of elongate slat panels having:
- (i) opposing primary and secondary surfaces;
- (ii) opposing primary and secondary major sides;
- and (iii) opposing primary and secondary minor ends;
- the slat panels being slidably movable relative to one another between a retracted condition, wherein the respective primary and secondary major sides of each of the slat panels lie in close proximity in alignment with one another, and an extended condition, wherein the respective primary and secondary major sides of each of the slat panels are spaced relative to one another such that a dimension of the slat, as measured between the primary major side of one of the slat panels and the secondary major side of the other of the slat panels, is variable;
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- (ii) one or more fasteners, located at or near each of the opposing primary and secondary minor ends of the slat panels, for releasably fixing the pair of slat panels to one another;
- characterized in that the one or more fasteners are configurable between a loosened state, wherein the slat panels are slidably movable between the retracted and extended conditions, and a tightened state, wherein the primary surfaces of each of the slat panels is operably forced into contact with each other, or an intermediate member therebetween, such that frictional forces acting between respective contact surfaces frictionally lock the slat panels in position relative to one another, whether in the retracted condition, the extended condition or any condition there between, thereby to operatively restrict relative movement between the slat panels in such fixed condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.