Window shade

A window shade assembly comprising, in combination, a telescoping roller including a first tubular roller section, a second tubular roller section having one end thereof telescopingly seated within said first section with a portion thereof projecting axially from said first section, a tube surrounding at least a portion of said second member projecting axially from said first member, and means associated with said roller for resisting relative rotative movement between said tubular roller members, said tube having an inside diameter of the sides permitting free axial sliding movement between said members, and

• a window shade of flexible sheet material secured along one end to said roller and extending between the ends of said roller and having a free opposite end, said shade having at least at one edge thereof a plurality of spaced hand-strip lines extending from end-to-end substantially parallel to said end such that discrete widths of said shade may be hand-stripped along said lines from said free end of said shade to provide a smooth, straight edge after stripping,
• said tube being formed by an extended length of shade material wrapped around said projecting portion of said second roller section a number of times sufficient to form an outside diameter approximately equal to the outside diameter of said first roller section, said spaced hand-stripped lines extending to the roller end of said extended length of shade material so as to define when wrapped around said projecting portion of said second roller section a plurality of longitudinally spaced, circumferentially extending strip lines substantially coincident with said lines of said shade,
• said window shade being adapted to be sized to a window opening by hand-stripping of said discrete widths of said shade from said free end of said shade toward said roller end of said extended length of said shade while said shade is rolled on said roller in a continuous stripping operation.