Improvements in Rollers for Window Blinds, Sunshades, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Dec., 1897--Accepted, 5th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rollers for Window Blinds, Sunshades, and the
like.
I, WILLIAM CLARK KINCAID, of Corrie Bank, Greenock, in the County of Renfrew,
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention which relates to rollers for window blinds, sunshades and the like,
has for its object to obviate the risk of tearing and other disadvantages attendant
on the use of tacks for securing the blind to its roller whilst providing a simple
mode of attachment which permits of the ready removal and replacing of the blind
and ensures its hanging quite straight.
The improved roller is made in the formed of a tube of wood, paper, metal or other
material having a slit or slot extending throughout its length and fitted with end
pieces or caps provided with the usual cord pulley and centres for attachment to the
window frame. The blind is made with a hem or loop at its upper end into which
is inserted a lath or rod. The top end of the blind containing this lath or rod is
slipped into the tubular roller whilst the blind passes through the slot in the roller
and hangs freely therefrom and the end caps are fitted in place. The blind may
then be rolled up on the external surface of the roller. In removing the blind
from the roller one of the end caps is taken off and the lath carrying the blind is
drawn out of the tube.
like.
I, WILLIAM CLARK KINCAID, of Conie Bank, Greenock, in the County of Renfrew,
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
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This invention which relates to rollers for window blinds, sunshades and the like,
has for its object to obviate the risk of tearing and other disadvantages attendant
on the use of tacks for securing the blind to its roller whilst providing a simple

page_text: mode of attachment which permits of the ready removal and replacing of the blind
and ensures its hanging quite straight.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 being an
elevation and Fig. 2 a cross section on the linear of the roller, shewing a blind
attached thereto. Fig. 3 is an elevation partly in section, and Fig. 4 a cross section
on the line y-y shewing the roller as provided with the usual end pieces and centres
for attachment to the window frame.
The improved roller is made in the form of a tube A of wood, paper, metal or
other material, the hollow centre being round or of any other suitable form and the
tube A having a slit or slot B extending throughout its length and fitted with end
pieces or caps C, C¹, provided with the usual cord pulley 1) and centres E for
attachment to the window frame. The blind F is made with a hem or loop at its
upper end into which is inserted a lath or rod G. The top end of the blind F
containing this lath or rod is slipped into the tubular roller A whilst the blind F
passes through the slot. B in the roller A and hangs freely therefrom and the end
caps C, C, are fitted in place. The blind F may then be rolled up on the external
surface of the roller A. In removing the blind F from the roller A the end cap C¹
which as shewn at Fig. 4 is provided with a key piece C³ which enters the slot B
and serves to turn the roller A, is taken off and the lath G carrying the blind F
is drawn out of the tube A.
The invention is also applicable to such articles es deck chairs and the like in
which a length of fabric i stretched between rollers or hars, the cross bars being
fitted with the slotted rollers above described from which the fabric depends as in
the case of a blind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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The improved roller for window blinds, sunshades and the like consisting of a
slotted tube provided with end pieces and enclosing a lath or rod over which the
looped end of the blind or fabric is passed whilst the blind depends from the lath
through the slotted tube substantially as described.
Dated this 30th day of November 1897.