Claims
- 1. A method of treating an endmost vane in an architectural covering fabric that includes a plurality of elongated tubular vanes having a folded longitudinal edge and an opposite longitudinal edge with a face sheet material interconnecting the vanes along said opposite longitudinal edges, comprising the steps of:providing a strip of face sheet material connected to said opposite longitudinal edge of said endmost vane, said strip having a free edge, said strip being substantially commensurate in length to that of said endmost vane and having a width slightly greater than the width of said endmost vane, positioning said strip of face sheet material in substantially parallel relationship to said endmost vane, cutting said endmost vane along said folded longitudinal edge so as to define an adjacent vane side and a removed vane side, said vane sides having confronting faces, said adjacent vane side being closer to said strip than said removed vane side, applying a first strip of adhesive to the confronting face of said adjacent vane side along said cut folded edge, securing said free edge of said strip of face sheet material to said first strip of adhesive by wrapping said free edge around the cut folded edge of said adjacent vane side, applying a second strip of adhesive to said secured free edge of said strip of face sheet material, and securing the confronting face of said removed vane side to said second strip of adhesive along said cut folded edge.
- 2. The method of claim 1 wherein said positioning step includes placement of said endmost vane and strip of face sheet material on a work surface, and further including the step of releasably securing said strip of face sheet material and said adjacent vane side to said work surface.
- 3. The method of claim 2 wherein said step of releasably securing occurs prior to the step of securing said first strip of adhesive.
- 4. The method of claim 2 wherein said step of releasably securing includes placing an elongated ferrous strip along the confronting face of said adjacent vane side, and providing a magnetic force beneath said work surface.
- 5. The method of claim 2 further including the steps of positioning a spacer bar between said adjacent vane side of the endmost vane and said strip of face sheet material prior to securing said free edge of said strip of face sheet material to said first strip of adhesive and subsequently removing said spacer bar whereby a space will exist between said adjacent vane side and said strip of face sheet material after complete treatment of said endmost vane.
- 6. A method of forming an endmost vane in an architectural covering having a plurality of tubular vanes formed from a strip of material said strip of material having two longitudinal side edges connected together to form one edge of the vane and a longitudinal fold forming an opposite edge of the vane, said vanes being interconnected by face sheet material secured to said vanes along said connected side edges, comprising the steps of:a) identifying an endmost vane from a plurality of said interconnected vanes, b) providing a free strip of face sheet material on the opposite side of said endmost vane from the other vanes in the covering, said free strip having a free edge, c) severing said endmost vane along said fold to establish first and second vane sides, d) inserting said free edge between said vane sides at the location of the severed fold, and e) securing the free edge to the vane sides along said location of the severed fold.
- 7. The method of claim 6 further including the step of anchoring one of said vane sides to a work surface prior to severing the endmost vane.
- 8. The method of claim 7 wherein said anchoring is done with a magnet.
- 9. The method of claim 6 wherein said free edge is secured to the vane sides with an adhesive.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 09/031,211 filed Feb. 26, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,170,548, which application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/639,906 filed Apr. 24, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,876,545, which application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/437,960 filed May 10, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,749,404, for a Fabric For An Architectural Covering and Method and Apparatus of Manufacturing same.
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