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US 7,467,654 B2Granted
Device for maintaining window coverings or vertically hanging flexible panels
AssigneeStayfold, Inc.
InventorMark Allen Urick
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Abstract
The device for maintaining window coverings or vertically hanging flexible panels includes a frame, apparatus for retaining the flexible panel in the frame and an attachment to attach the flexible panel to the frame. Preferably, the device is lightweight and nonporous. The device is formed into a desired shape in order to maintain a desired orientation of the hanging flexible panel.
Claims10
A device for maintaining a desired orientation of a hanging flexible panel having a pocket, comprising:
- a frame formed into a desired shape capable of maintaining the flexible panel within the desired shape;
- the frame having a plurality of parallel teeth;
- an attachment means for attaching the frame to the flexible panel;
- wherein the attachment means is at least one prong between the teeth and which is oriented perpendicularly to the teeth;
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- wherein the frame is attached to the flexible panel by inserting a portion of the flexible panel between the teeth and inserting the at least one prong into the pocket of the flexible panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.