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US 6,746,745 B2Granted
Composite bamboo blinds slats and method for making same
AssigneeNien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd.
InventorMing Nien
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Abstract
A blinds slat has a major portion being strips of bamboo and a minor portion being one or more pairs of wooden strips that are located at or near opposite side extremities of the slat. The resulting composite bamboo and wooden slat as exemplary resistance to warping and other deleterious effects of exposure to sun and moisture. Also disclosed is a method for producing the slats that is particularly advantageous in avoiding environmental harm, in that only small amounts of wood are used.
Claims16
A composite blinds slat comprising:
- (a) a bonded plurality of bamboo strips forming a center portion of the slat;
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- (b) a pair of wooden strips bonded to opposite edges of the center portion, the wooden strips being flush with opposite sides of the center portion.
A composite blinds slat comprising:
- (a) a bonded plurality of bamboo strips forming a center portion of the slat;
- (b) a pair of wooden strips bonded to opposite edges of the center portion, the wooden strips being flush with opposite sides of the center portion, each of the bamboo and wooden strips forming portions of opposite planar and parallel major faces of the blinds slat;
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- (c) a further pair of bamboo slats bonded opposite the pair of wooden strips to form respective edge portions of the blinds slat.
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A method for forming a composite blinds slat, comprising:
- (a) providing a plurality of bamboo strips having adhesive coatings thereon;
- (b) providing a plurality of wooden strips;
- (c) bonding a pair of the wooden strips together with the bamboo strips such that a majority of the bamboo strips extend in parallel adjacency between the wooden strips;
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- (d) smoothing opposite surface extremities of the bamboo and wooden strips to form flush and continuous major faces of the composite blinds slat.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.