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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2010
Hajime Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Hajime Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Tachikawa Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A shielding apparatus is provided in which operations of raising and lowering a middle rail and operations of raising and lowering a bottom rail can be performed independently from each other by means of a common operation cord. In a shielding apparatus equipped with an elevation apparatus configured to raise and lower a middle railand a bottom rail, whereby a shielding membercan be pulled out in the vertical direction or folded in, the elevation apparatus comprises an operation cordof an endless type hanging down from a head box, and selective operation meansconfigured to raise or lower the middle railthrough an operation of the operation cordin one direction, and to raise or lower the bottom railthrough an operation in the other direction, wherein the selective operation meansis configured to push up the middle railby the bottom railso that the bottom railand the middle railcan be raised together.