Blind and shade cutting center for cutting two different window covering products
AssigneeNewell Window Furnishings, Inc.
InventorsDavid Roberts, Thomas A. Caputo, Richard D. Coulcher, Jr., David A. Schwartz
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Abstract
A sizing center for and a method of sizing different styles of window coverings includes at least two sizing mechanisms disposed on a sizing center in which each sizing mechanism is adapted to size a different style of window covering. Each window covering includes a color marking. At least two measuring scales are disposed on the sizing center, each measuring scale being associated with a sizing mechanism and having a different color, and each color associated with a sizing center being associated with a color marking of a window covering.
Claims7
A sizing center for sizing a first type of window covering comprising a first material and/or a first configuration and a second type of window covering comprising a second material and/or a second configuration, each window covering including a color marking on packaging of the window covering that corresponds to the type of the window covering, the apparatus comprising:
- a first sizing mechanism and a second sizing mechanism disposed on the sizing center and the first sizing mechanism comprising a first die assembly having a first fixed die and a first moveable die sized to cut the first type of window covering but to not cut the second type of window covering and the second sizing mechanism comprising a second die assembly having a second fixed die and a second moveable die sized to cut the second type of window covering but to not cut the first type of window covering, and the first moveable die defining a first cutting direction and the second moveable die defining a second cutting direction, wherein the first cutting direction is perpendicular to the second cutting direction;
- the second sizing mechanism further comprising a punch and a circular saw;
- at least a first measuring scale positioned on the sizing center relative to the first cutting direction and at least a second measuring scale positioned on the sizing center relative to the second cutting direction, the first measuring scale being associated with the first sizing mechanism and having a first color and the second measuring scale being associated with the second sizing mechanism and having a second color where the second color is different than the first color;
- each of the first color and the second color corresponding to a color marking on packaging of a window covering, the color marking corresponding to the type of the window covering, thereby enabling a user to determine an appropriate measuring scale based solely on the color marking.
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