Patent ID: 8752251

Claim:
A cord release for a window covering, comprising at least a first case and a second case that are engaged together to form a barrel with an opening at a top thereof that a plurality of cords enter the barrel through the opening, wherein the cord release is defined with a frontal plane, which is parallel to butt connecting edges of the cases, and a sagittal plane, which is perpendicular to the frontal plane, and the sagittal plane and the frontal plane cross at a center of the cord release, wherein a left side and a right side are defined at opposite sides of the sagittal plane, and a front side and a back side are defined at opposite sides of the frontal plane; wherein the opening has a first collecting portion at the front side of the frontal plane and the right side of the sagittal plane, and a second collecting portion at the back side of the frontal plane and the left side of the sagittal plane; wherein one of the cases is provided with a first bore and a second bore at a bottom thereof, and the other case is provided with a third bore at a bottom whereby a rope passes through the first bore, the third bore, and the second bore in sequence; wherein the barrel has a curved guiding slot on a bottom thereof to receive a section of the rope between the first bore and the third bore.