Patent ID: 8960621
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: E06B,F16B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A slide lock to releasably secure a roller blind fascia to an end plate of a roller blind, the slide lock comprising: a lock body slidably received along an interior surface of the fascia, said lock body having an engaged position, wherein said lock body releasably secures the fascia to the roller blind end plate, and having a disengaged position, wherein said lock body releases the fascia from the end plate to permit the fascia to be removed therefrom, said lock body including two leg members laterally disposed in opposite directions, each of said leg members including a flexibly resilient foot portion that slidably engages a longitudinal channel on the interior surface of the fascia thereby securing said lock body to the facia, one of said leg members releasably engageable between the fascia and the roller blind end plate and having a deflection zone such that when said leg member engages between the fascia and the roller blind end plate at least a portion of said leg member is compressed or deflected about said deflection zone to releasably secure said lock body between the roller blind end plate and the fascia, thereby releasably securing the fascia to the end plate.