Patent ID: 6478905
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: E06B,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of treating an endmost vane in an architectural covering fabric that includes a plurality of elongated tubular vanes having a folded longitudinal edge and an opposite longitudinal edge with a face sheet material interconnecting the vanes along said opposite longitudinal edges, comprising the steps of:providing a strip of face sheet material connected to said opposite longitudinal edge of said endmost vane, said strip having a free edge, said strip being substantially commensurate in length to that of said endmost vane and having a width slightly greater than the width of said endmost vane, positioning said strip of face sheet material in substantially parallel relationship to said endmost vane, cutting said endmost vane along said folded longitudinal edge so as to define an adjacent vane side and a removed vane side, said vane sides having confronting faces, said adjacent vane side being closer to said strip than said removed vane side, applying a first strip of adhesive to the confronting face of said adjacent vane side along said cut folded edge, securing said free edge of said strip of face sheet material to said first strip of adhesive by wrapping said free edge around the cut folded edge of said adjacent vane side, applying a second strip of adhesive to said secured free edge of said strip of face sheet material, and securing the confronting face of said removed vane side to said second strip of adhesive along said cut folded edge.