Releasable end stop
AssigneeHunter Douglas Industries BV
InventorKonrad Welfonder
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Abstract
A releasable end stop is provided for an assembly of carriers and spacers that can be moved longitudinally within a head rail of an architectural covering, such as a covering for an architectural opening, and particularly a vertical venetian blind, wherein the end stop permits movement of operative components of the covering to permit cleaning and servicing of the control system for the covering.
Claims19
An architectural covering comprising a headrail with an active end cap, a plurality of carriers, including a most trailing carrier, spacers interconnecting the carriers, slats supported by the carriers, and a releasable end stop, the end stop comprising:
- a longitudinally-movable release plate in the head rail that is between said active end cap and a trailing spacer of a most trailing carrier and that is affixed to a trailing end of the trailing spacer of the most trailing carrier;
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- a longitudinally-extending, flexible resilient tongue that is on the active end cap and is adapted to detachably hold the release plate against movement of the release plate away from the active end cap with longitudinal movement of the spacers and carriers away from the active end cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.