Patent ID: 6474393
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: E06B

Abstract:
A head rail assembly for a vertical venetian blind having an array of retractable and tiltable slats, the assembly including:an elongate head rail having a mechanism at one end for both tilting and retracting slats of the vertical blind along the elongate head rail, the mechanism having a rotatable control gear, the rotation of which controls both the tilting and retracting, wherein the control gear is located at a position along the elongate head rail for operative coupling with a motor unit, wherein the head rail includes a housing forming a generally enclosed structure, the housing including an aperture through which the control gear meshes with the teeth of a toothed drive gear, wherein the housing has a first elongate surface from which the slats are adapted to extend and at least one other elongate surface in which the aperture is formed; and the motor unit for releasable attachment to the at least one other elongate surface of the head rail, the motor unit having the toothed drive gear for meshing with the control gear.