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US 5,049,424 AGranted
Fabric covered metal rail and method for producing same
AssigneeHunter Douglas Inc.
InventorsL. Eugene Carden, Richard N. Anderson
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Abstract
A fabric covered metal rail suitable for use as a top or bottom rail in a fabric Venetian blind and method for producing such a rail by first laminating a fabric strip to a metal strip and then roll forming the laminated strip into the rail.
Claims3
A fabric covered blind rail of laminated material wherein the laminated material comprises:
- (a) a strip of thin ductile metal shaped as a thin metal tube to define a closed tubular rail closed by a longitudinally extending compressed lockseam;
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- (b) a strip of fabric adhesively bonded to the outer surface of the metal tube with no fabric contact in the lockseam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.