US 6,435,066 B1Granted

Cutting apparatus for window covering and methods therefor

AssigneeSprings Window Fashions Division, Inc.

InventorsDarrell J. Kutchmarek, Richard L. Seiders

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Abstract

A method of cutting a window covering having a longitudinal axis and a second axis substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis to a specified length includes providing a cutting apparatus including a base having a cutting surface. The cutting apparatus has a cutting blade slidably mounted thereon for sliding along a movement axis toward and away from the cutting surface. The window covering is then positioned atop the cutting surface of the base and the cutting blade is moved along the movement axis and toward the cutting surface to cut the window covering to the specified length. The movement axis has a first component extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the window covering and substantially perpendicular to the second axis of the window covering and a second component extending substantially parallel to the second axis of the window covering.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A method of cutting a window covering to a specified length, said window covering including a headrail, a bottom rail and window covering material extending between said headrail and said bottom rail, said window covering having a longitudinal axis and a second axis substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis, the method comprising:

providing a cutting apparatus including a base having a cutting surface, said cutting apparatus having a cutting blade slidably mounted thereon for sliding along a movement axis toward and away from said cutting surface;
positioning said window covering atop said cutting surface of said base so that said headrail, said bottom rail and said window covering material are arranged side-by-side atop said cutting surface;
and
moving said cutting blade along said movement axis and toward said cutting surface to cut said window covering to said specified length, said movement axis including a first component extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said window covering and substantially perpendicular to the second axis of said window covering and a second component extending substantially parallel to the second axis of said window covering, wherein said window covering is positioned atop said cutting surface during the positioning step so that said cutting blade simultaneously cuts through said headrail, said bottom rail and said window covering material during the moving step.

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Facts

Application: 09/054,845Filed 3 Apr 1998 · us provisional application
Priority: 18 Dec 1997
Granted: 20 Aug 2002
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B23D 23/00
Machines or devices for shearing or cutting profiled stock
E06B 9/266
Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds: devices or accessories for making or mounting lamellar blinds or parts thereof
Y10S 83/929
Cutting: particular nature of work or product
Y10T 29/39
Metal working: venetian blind assembling