Lift lock for blind
AssigneesIndustrial Technology Research Institute, Nien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd.
InventorsYu-Che Wen, Yuh-Jia Ju
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Abstract
A lift lock for blind is disclosed to include a shaft pivoted to a headrail of a blind for synchronous rotation with a lift rod of the blind. The shaft has a constraint device. A switching mechanism is mounted inside the headrail of the blind and has a sliding member movable between a locking position and an unlocking position. The sliding member has an engagement device, which engages the constraint device to stop the shaft from rotary motion when the sliding member moved to the locking position, or is disengaged from the constraint device for enabling the shaft to be rotated with the lift rod when the sliding member moved to the unlocking position. And, a control mechanism has a pull rod for pulling by the user to switch the switching mechanism between the locking position and the unlocking position.
Claims7
A lift lock installed in a blind having a headrail fixedly transversely mounted on a top side of a window, a blind body suspended from said headrail, a spring winding mechanism mounted in said headrail, said spring winding mechanism having at least one spring means and at least one drum, said at least one drum being horizontally rotatable in clockwise direction and counter-clockwise direction to upwardly receive/downwardly extend said blind body, the spring means of said spring winding mechanism imparting a torque in clockwise direction to said at least one drum, the lift lock comprising:
- a shaft pivoted to said headrail for synchronous rotation with the at least one drum of said spring winding mechanism, said shaft having a constraint device;
- a switching mechanism mounted inside said headrail, said switching mechanism having a sliding member movable between a locking position and an unlocking position, said sliding member having an engagement device, said engagement device being forced into engagement with said constraint device to stop said shaft from rotary motion when said sliding member moved to said locking position, said engagement device being disengaged from said constraint device for enabling said shaft to be rotated by an external force when said sliding member moved to said unlocking position;
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- a control mechanism having a vertical pull rod, said pull rod having a top end suspended from one end of said headrail and coupled to said switching mechanism for pulling downwardly by the user to switch said switching mechanism between said locking position and said unlocking position alternatively, and a return spring mounted in said headrail and adapted to return said pull rod each time said pull rod been pulled downwards by the user and released.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.