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US 2016/0354972 A1Published application
Process and system for manufacturing a roller blind
AssigneeHunter Douglas Inc.
InventorsWendell B. Colson, Paul G. Swiszcz, David P. Hartman, Michael Robert Stanczyk
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Abstract
A process and system for manufacturing roller blinds is provided which includes structure for performing plural steps including a first step of helically winding slat fabric about a drum, thereby forming a slat product. A second step includes moving the slat product from the drum to a platform. A third step includes winding the slat product about a roller tube to form a roller blind. A fourth step includes moving the blind from the platform to a heat treating device.
Claims20
A method of manufacturing a blind, comprising:
- helically winding elongated fabric about a drum to form overlapped layers of fabric;
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- attaching adjacent layers of the overlapped layers of fabric together at attachment lines spaced along an axis of the drum to define a cell between adjacent attachment lines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.