Patent ID: 7240716

Claim:
A shade system comprising: a plurality of elongated roller tubes each having opposite end portions, the roller tubes substantially aligned along a common axis of rotation and arranged to define at least one pair of adjacently located tube end portions, each of the roller tubes adapted for winding receipt of a flexible shade fabric, each of the flexible shade fabrics defining a bottom edge; and a clutch mechanism for each pair of adjacently located tube end portions, the clutch mechanism including first and second clutch members, the first clutch member operably engaging a first one of the tube end portions and the second clutch member operably engaging the adjacently located tube end portion for torque transfer therebetween; the clutch members supported for relative movement with respect to each other between a closed clutch position in which the first and second clutch members engage each other for torque transfer therebetween and an opened clutch position in which the clutch members are disengaged from each other, the closed clutch position providing for simultaneous rotation of the associated tube end portions, the opened clutch position providing for relative rotation between the associated tube end portions, thereby providing for relative adjustment of the bottom edges of the associated flexible shade fabrics.