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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2000
Konrad Welfonder, Bremerhaven, DE;
Hunter Douglas Industries BV, , NL;
Abstract
A head rail for a vertical blind, the head rail being elongate and having a drive mechanism at one end for selectively tilting and retracting slats of the vertical blind along the length of the head rail, the drive mechanism including a rotatable tilt drive for tilting slats, a rotatable retract drive for retracting and deploying slats, and a transmission for rotating the tilt drive and the retract drive by means of a single rotatable source, wherein the transmission includes a clutch for rotating the tilt drive, the clutch incorporating a lost motion mechanism whereby, after a predetermined number of rotations in the same direction, transmission by the clutch to the tilt drive is disengaged and wherein the transmission includes a control gear which is located at a position along the length of the head rail so that it can be meshed with teeth of an external drive source.