Valance bracket for vertical venetian blind
AssigneeHunter Douglas International N.V.
InventorFrancis Vecchiarelli
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Abstract
A device for mounting the headrail of a vertical Venetian blind and for holding a valance to the headrail in which a bracket has the valance mounted on it and carries a rearwardly extending arm which is engageable in a rearwardly extending channel formed in a clip body. The clip can be hooked on to and snap in to elongate recesses in the front and rear flanges of the headrail and the clip carries members which mount the clip, the headrail and the bracket to a support thereabove. The clip also carries detents which engage in holes in the rearward arm of the bracket so that the position of the valance can be adjusted.
Claims10
A device for mounting the headrail of a vertical Venetian blind and for holding a valance to the headrail, said headrail being of inverted channel cross-section having an upper web and downwardly extending front and rear flanges, said flanges being provided adjacent the web with elongate recesses extending the length of the headrail, said device comprising, in combination:
- (i) a valance mounting bracket including a rearwardly extending arm having at least one hole therein;
- (ii) a clip including:
- (a) a clip body;
- (b) a hook at one end of said body engageable in the elongate recess of the rear flange of the headrail;
- (c) a leg at the other end of said body adapted to overlie the other flange of said headrail;
- (d) a first detent on said leg engageable in the elongate recess of the other flange of the headrail to retain said clip on said headrail;
- (e) at least one upstanding member on said body having an aperture for the passage of fixing means to hold said clip body to a support thereabove;
- (f) means defining a rearwardly extending channel on said clip body of a width to receive the rearwardly extending arm of the bracket;
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- (g) at least one second detent on said body engageable with said at least one hole in the rearwardly extending arm of the bracket.
A vertical Venetian blind comprising, in combination:
- (i) a head rail of inverted channel cross-section and including:
- (a) an upper web;
- (b) front and rear flanges;
- (c) means defining an elongate recess extending the length of the headrail in said front and rear flanges adjacent said web;
- (ii) a valance mounting bracket including a rearwardly extending arm having at least one hole therein;
- (iii) a clip including:
- (a) a clip body;
- (b) a hook at the one end of said body engaged in the elongate recess of the one flange of the headrail;
- (c) a leg at the other end of said body overlying the other flange of said headrail;
- (d) a first detent on said leg engaged in the elongate recess of the other flange of said headrail to retain said clip on said headrail;
- (e) at least one upstanding member on said body having an aperture for the passage of fixing means to hold said clip body to a support thereabove;
- (f) means defining a rearwardly extending channel on said clip body, said channel receiving the rearwardly extending arm of said bracket;
- (g) at least one second detent on said body engaged with it so that at least one hole in the rearwardly extending arm of the bracket;
- (iv) a valance mounted on said bracket to extend in front of said headrail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.