Kabushiki Kaisha Nichibei

Nichibei Co., Ltd.

Hidehiko Nakamura

Koji Takagi

Shinichiro Yoshida

Hiroomi Yamanaka

Akira Sone

Toshikazu Okita

Hideaki Tonomura

A blind which allows the space underneath either desired end of its head rail to be opened by folding louvers beginning with the one at the desired end by a simple operation. A louver is hung from each one of a plurality of carriers that can move within a head rail and, among the carriers, the carrier arranged closest to the first end a of the head rail constitutes a first master carrier, and the carrier arranged closest to the second end of the head rail constitutes a second master carrier. By manipulating a first operating device, the first master carrier is moved toward the second end of the head rail to open the space underneath the first end, and by manipulating a second operating device, the second master carrier moved toward the first end of the head rail to open the space underneath the second end.

Blind

A vertical blind that includes a plurality of louvers of which certain louvers are alternately positioned and can be placed in various positions so that the vertical blind can be fully changed in form. The vertical blind further includes a rotation-transferring mechanism on alternating carriers. The rotation-transferring mechanism serves to transfer the rotation of the shaft, which is mounted in the head rail, to the louvers, which are hung from the alternating carriers, so that the louvers rotate around their vertical axes. If the louvers that are hung from the carriers with the rotation-transferring mechanism are positioned so that they are almost perpendicular to the head rail, each louver hung from those carriers that are not equipped with a rotation-transferring mechanism almost covers each space left between the louvers on either side of the louver hung from the carrier with the rotation-transferring mechanism.

Vertical blind

An opaque or semitransparent rear sheet hangs from a head rail and is weighted at the bottom by a ballast ber. A number of front sheets are hung from the rear sheet, each front sheet extending laterally across the full lateral width of the rear sheet. The rear sheet is raised by a raising cord to raise the entire shade. The front sheets are raised by an opening cord to open the front sheets with respect to the rear sheet, creating openings and exposing the rear sheet through the openings. The front sheets form folds when raised, and may have lateral members attached thereto for defining the shape of the opening.

Roman shade

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Tokyo, Japan

Hidehiko Nakamura