Patent ID: 7264687

Claim:
An apparatus for forming a fabric for an architectural opening covering, the apparatus comprising: a joining section configured to join together first, second, third and fourth material strips into a fabric strip where each of said material strips has top and bottom sides and front and rear edges and wherein the fabric strip has the top side of the rear edge of said first material strip secured to the bottom side of the front edge of said second material strip, said second material strip has the bottom side of its rear edge secured to the top side of the rear edge of said third material strip and the fourth material strip has the top side of its front edge secured to the bottom side of the rear edge of said third material strip; an accumulator configured to accumulate the fabric strip upon leaving the joining section; a cutting station configured to sever the fabric strip into an upstream fabric strip and a first downstream fabric strip; and a stacker configured to join the first downstream fabric strip with a second downstream fabric strip to form the fabric.