Vertical blind assembly
AssigneeWondershades LLC
InventorJason B. Teuscher
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Abstract
A modular shade includes at least one module that consists of a head rail unit, a foot rail unit, at least one intermediate rail unit, and a plurality of slat components. A top slat may be coupled to the head rail unit and the intermediate rail unit, and a bottom slat component may be coupled to the intermediate rail unit and the foot rail unit. Further, additional intermediate rail units and intermediate slat components may be added to the module to alter the shape and size of the module, and the module may be coupled to one or more additional modules to change the overall shape and size of the modular shade.
Claims5
A shade comprising:
- A plurality of slat components, wherein each slat component has two edges running vertically and a width between the two edges that is unalterable, wherein at least two slat components of the plurality of slat components are coupled to each other and wherein each slat component of the plurality of slat components includes an interior opening between the two edges;
- one or more strips that run vertically and are positioned within the interior opening of each slat component of the plurality of slat components, wherein excess material of a first slat component, of the plurality of slat components, that extends past the one or more strips is folded over and coupled to the first slat component, wherein each of the plurality of slat component are configured to be individually removed and attached.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.