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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edward M Kaucic, Middleton, WI (US);
Assignee:
Graber Industries, Inc., Middleton, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E06B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1601 / ; 1601 / ; 1601 / ;
Abstract
A vertical venetian blind of the type in which carriages having rotatable slat carriers are mounted for movement along a horizontal support channel and in which the slat carriers on the several carriages are simultaneously rotated by means of a shaft extending longitudinally of the channel. The shaft drive mechanism includes a planetary type gear mechanism mounted in the channel in-line with the operating shaft to drivingly interconnect a drive sprocket at the end of the housing to the shaft with a relatively high speed reduction.