Patent ID: 8459326

Claim:
A cellular shade comprising: a plurality of sequential and interconnected closed cell structures extending in a longitudinal direction, the closed cell structures aligned vertically one above another with juncture lines defined between adjacent ones of the vertically aligned closed cell structures, the cell structures having a collapsed position when the shade is retracted and having an open position when the shade is extended, at least some of the cell structures including a front face and a separate back face, and wherein the cell structures are constructed such that the front face is offset from the back face, the front face of a higher cell structure being attached to both the front face and the back face of a lower adjacent cell structure and the back face of the higher cell structure being attached only to the back face of the lower adjacent cell structure in a manner that causes a cross-sectional profile of the cell structures to be substantially symmetrical about a plane that intersects the cell structure mid-height when the cell structure is in the open position and wherein each front face of each cell structure is made from a separate piece of material and each back face is made from at least one separate piece of material.