Patent Application
20070029054
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a transverse cloth blind, particularly to one having its front side provided with a single-sheet curtain and its rear side provided with cloth strips connected together by fixing cords and supported by support rods.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A conventional cloth blind includes an upper rail, a plurality of cloth strips, at least two fixing cords and a plurality of support rods combined together. The cloth strips are disposed in parallel under the upper rail and respectively formed with two long sides and two short sides. The fixing cords are respectively hung down straight from the upper rail to the two long sides at the opposite sides of each cloth strip and formed with a cord ring under the long sides of each cloth strip. The support rods are respectively inserted and positioned in the cord ring of the fixing cord for supporting the relative cloth strip.
However, when the conventional cloth blind is collapsed, the cloth strips are likely to cause creases by propping and pressing of the support rods and the fixing cords respectively provided at the front and the rear side of the cloth strips, influencing the external beauty of the cloth strips after they are expanded. In addition, although the support rods and the fixing cords are hidden by the cloth blades, yet they are positioned close to the front side of the cloth blades with sufficient thickness; therefore, the support rods and the fixing cords may be seen indistinctly, failing to present integral beauty of a cloth blind.
The objective of the invention is to offer a transverse cloth blind including an upper rail, a plurality of cloth strips, at least one fixing cord, a curtain and a plurality of support rods. The cloth strips are disposed in parallel under the upper rail and respectively formed with two long sides and two short sides. The fixing cords are hung down straight from the upper rail to the rear long side of each cloth strip and respectively formed with a cord ring under the rear long side of each cloth strip. The curtain is hung down straight from the upper rail and connected with the front long side of each cloth strip. The support rods parallel to one another are respectively inserted and positioned in the cord rings of the fixing cords for supporting the cloth strip. By so designing, the single-sheet curtain bonded with the front long side of each cloth blade is able to elevate esthetic sense of vision of the transverse cloth blind, and the support rods and the fixing cords provided at the rear side of the cloth blind cannot be seen located a little far away from the front curtain, able to keep integral beauty of the transverse cloth blind. In addition, since there are no support rods and fixing cords provided at the front long sides of the cloth blades; therefore, the curtain can be always kept flat after it is rolled up.
This invention will be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A first preferred embodiment of a transverse cloth blind in the present invention, as shown in
The upper rail 10 is a winding reel positioned at the upper side of the cloth blind.
The lower rail 20 is positioned at the lower side of the cloth blind.
The cloth strips 30, as shown in
The two fixing cords 40 are respectively hung down straight from the upper rail 10 and inserted through the insert hole 311 of the rear long side of each cloth strip 30 and then fixed on the lower rail 20. Further, the two fixing cords 40 are respectively formed with a cord ring 41 under the rear long side 31 of each cloth strip 30.
The curtain 50 is hung down straight from the upper rail 10 and connected with the front long side 31 of each cloth strip 30 and then fixed on the lower rail 20 for fixing the front long side 31 of each cloth blade 30. The curtain in this preferred embodiment is bonded with the cloth strips 30 by thermal-melted gum.
The support rods 60 parallel to the long sides 31 of the cloth strips 30 are respectively inserted and positioned in each cord ring 41 of the two fixing cords 40 for supporting the cloth strip 30.
To collapse (or wind up) the transverse cloth blind, as shown in
A second preferred embodiment of a transverse cloth blind in the present invention, as shown in
To sum up, this invention has the following advantages.
1. The single-sheet curtain 50 connected with the front long side 31 of each cloth blade 30 is able to elevate esthetic sense of vision of the front side of the transverse cloth blind.
2. The support rods 60 and the fixing cords 40 provided at the rear side of the cloth blind and located a little far away from the front curtain 50 of the transverse cloth blind are hidden by the front curtain 50 and impossible to be seen, enabling the transverse cloth blind to present its integral beauty.
3. There are no support rods 60 and fixing cords 30 provided at the front long sides of the cloth blades; therefore, after being rolled up, the curtain 50 can avoid causing creases.
While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
