Patent ID: 7802609
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: A47H,E06B

Abstract:
1. A roller shade system comprising: a rotatably-mounted roller tube; a flexible shade fabric windingly received around the roller tube, the shade fabric having a first fabric end connected to the roller tube and a second fabric end opposite the first fabric end, the second fabric end adapted to move in an upwards direction and in a downwards direction as the roller tube is rotated in respective first and second directions, the shade fabric comprising a weighting element at the second fabric end, such that the shade fabric hangs from the roller tube; and a pleating bar defining a fabric-receiving opening and mounted such that the shade fabric is received through the fabric-receiving opening, the pleating bar adapted to fold the shade fabric, such that the shade fabric is wrapped around the roller tube in folds as the roller tube rotates in the first direction to move the second fabric end of the shade fabric in the upwards direction.