Patent ID: 7938161

Claim:
A child safety kit for retrofitting Roman shades having a sheet of material comprising: a plurality of male members; a plurality of female members; and the female members and the male members sized and configured to releasably connect together, one of the female members and male members being sized and configured for attachment to a sheet of material of a type used in Roman shades and the other members each having an opening sized and configured to receive a Roman shade lift cord, each of the female members being sized and configured to release one of the male members after that male member is releasably connected to that female member when a release force acts on at least one of that female member and that male member; and each of the female members being comprised of a body that defines an aperture sized and configured to releasably hold at least one of the male members and also being comprised of a spring positioned in the aperture to directly engage the male member when the male member is connected to the female member.