Patent ID: 7156143

Claim:
A shade apparatus comprising: a pair of rails; a shade provided so as to extend between the rails; a shade guiding and maintaining apparatus for guiding the shade so as to be pulled out, and for maintaining the shade at a predetermined position; a maintaining hole formed on an end of the shade, at which the shade is operated and pulled out, so as to extend in a width direction of the rail; a guiding and maintaining member inserted into and supported at the maintaining hole so as to be movable within the maintaining hole and slidable along one of the rails, wherein the guiding and maintaining member includes a first sandwiching portion and a second sandwiching portion, the first and second sandwiching portion provided together as a set, which is mutually supportive so as to be slidable and approach one another; and a biasing member is provided in a manner where one end thereof engages one of the first sandwiching portion or the second sandwiching portion and the other end thereof engages the other of the first sandwiching portion or the second sandwiching portion in order to apply a biasing force to the first sandwiching portion and to the second sandwiching portion so as to sandwich the rail therebetween; and therein the guiding and maintaining member is attached to the shade so as to be movable in a width direction of the rail.