Springs Window Fashions, LLC

Brady Worldwide Corp.

Springs Window Fashions Division, Inc.

Richard L Seiders

Darrell J Kutchmarek

A label with top, bottom and edge surfaces is attached to a thermoplastic substrate by a method comprising the steps of:

Method of attaching a label to a thermoplastic substrate

An apparatus for cutting a window covering including a head rail, a bottom rail and slats includes a base having a substantially flat cutting surface, and a frame overlying the cutting surface. The base includes a clamping assembly for securing the window covering atop the cutting surface with the bottom rail, slats and top rail in a side-by-side arrangement over the cutting surface. The apparatus includes a cutting assembly having a cutting blade with a cutting edge for sliding along a movement axis having a first component of movement extending in a direction substantially parallel to the cutting surface and a second component of movement extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cutting surface. A driver is connected with the cutting assembly for moving the cutting blade toward the cutting surface, wherein the cutting edge simultaneously cuts through the bottom rail, the slats and the head rail.

Cutting apparatus for window coverings and methods therefor

A cutting blade has a pocketed cutting portion and a massive portion at a lower end of said cutting blade. The cutting blade includes a first face and a second face at a spaced distance from the first face, the first and second faces defining a massive portion of the cutting blade. The cutting blade also has exterior side walls extending between the first and second faces, and a plurality of interior side walls spaced inwardly of the exterior side walls and extending from the second face toward the first face to define the pocketed cutting portion of the cutting blade. The cutting blade also includes an intermediate face in the pocketed cutting portion, the intermediate face being spaced from the first face at a distance that is less than the spaced distance between the first and second faces, whereby the cutting blade has a cutting edge in the pocketed cutting portion that extends along the lower end of the cutting blade, the cutting edge being surrounded at the lower end of the cutting blade by the massive portion of the cutting blade.

Cutting blade for a cutting apparatus

A method of cutting a window covering having a longitudinal axis and a second axis substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis to a specified length includes providing a cutting apparatus including a base having a cutting surface. The cutting apparatus has a cutting blade slidably mounted thereon for sliding along a movement axis toward and away from the cutting surface. The window covering is then positioned atop the cutting surface of the base and the cutting blade is moved along the movement axis and toward the cutting surface to cut the window covering to the specified length. The movement axis has a first component extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the window covering and substantially perpendicular to the second axis of the window covering and a second component extending substantially parallel to the second axis of the window covering.

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Verona, WI, United States of America

Richard L Seiders