CA1196264A - Cord locking device for a sun-blind or the like - Google Patents

Cord locking device for a sun-blind or the like

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CA1196264A
CA1196264A CA000389258A CA389258A CA1196264A CA 1196264 A CA1196264 A CA 1196264A CA 000389258 A CA000389258 A CA 000389258A CA 389258 A CA389258 A CA 389258A CA 1196264 A CA1196264 A CA 1196264A
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tumbler
cords
sun
cross
legs
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Remmelt C. Niemeyer
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International Window Fashions LLC
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VEROSOL BV
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06BFIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/24Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blinds
    • E06B9/26Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds
    • E06B9/28Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds with horizontal lamellae, e.g. non-liftable
    • E06B9/30Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds with horizontal lamellae, e.g. non-liftable liftable
    • E06B9/32Operating, guiding, or securing devices therefor
    • E06B9/324Cord-locks

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  • Structural Engineering (AREA)
  • Architecture (AREA)
  • Civil Engineering (AREA)
  • Blinds (AREA)
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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A cord locking device is provided for use in association with a sun-blind or the like provided with an upper beam and one or more webs of sun-blinding material folded in a zigzag line and opened or closed by means of cords. The locking device has a U-shaped member having a flat bottom and legs, with a cross-plate at one end having an inlet hole to accommodate a number of cords. Also included in the assembly is a tumbler with a pivot shaft near its upper end, which pivot shaft is journalled in the legs of the U-shaped member near the tops of the legs. The tumbler, in vertical position, substantially fills the space between the legs and bottom of the U-shaped member under the pivot axis, and the lower edge of the tumbler is spaced from the bottom by a distance smaller than the thickness of the cords, which should extend between the bottom and the lower edge. The tumbler is loaded by a member which is slidable in the cross-plate in vertical direction, and this slidable member projects a lip or the like, the free end of which may cooper-ate with the adjacent face of the tumbler to effect loading.
In a portion of the slidable member, which is lying in the cross-plate, an inlet hole for the cords is provided substan-tially coinciding with the inlet hole in the cross-plate, whereby the bottoms of the inlet holes are at least partly sloping upward in opposite direction. In this way, a cord locking device is provided which will be operative for use with sun-blinds, yet can be made smaller than locking devices previously known that it can be built into an endstop of the blind, or can be affixed externally with minimal defacement.

Description

Cord locking device for a sun-blind or the like.

The invention relates to a locking device for the cords of a sun-blind or the like provided with an upper beam and one or more webs from sun-blinding material connected thereto, preferably material folded in a zigzag line, in which the cords are introduced through holes in the upper beam, extend through the inner space of the upper beam to one end of the upper beam and therefrom to the outside for opening or closing the sun-blind.
Such a sun-blind is known from NL-A 7307075 laid out to public inspec~ion In said known sun-blind at both ends of the upper beam an endstop is providedg one of said endstops is pro-vided with a hole for introducing a number of cords. In the practically used embodiment said cords, sometimes as much as nine pieces, are connected to one single cord by means of which the sun-blind may be pulled up and dropped.
The fastening of said cord is carried out by means of a toggle aff~ed to the window-frame.
A need of a locking device exists which automatically locks the cords when they are not pulled anymore.
Such automatically operating locking devices are known indeed for sun-blinds provided with tilting lamellae.
These blinds have a rather robust upper beam and the locking device may be built in therein5 or affixed at its outside as in US-~-2,731,111.
The mounting of the known locking device in the modest ùpper beam of the sun-blind according to the NL~A-7307075 is impossible because of lack of space.
When one should affix the known locking device against a headend of the upper beam the effective length for the upper beam is lost and the sun blinding ma-terial will not cover the entire windo~.

When one should provide the known locking device against the bottom of the one end of the upper beam similar objection is in force.
When one should provide the known locking device against the front of the one end of the upper beam the relative large housing of the locking device defaces the modest upper beam.
Therefore, it was aimed to invent an automa-tically opera-ting cord locking device being small such that it may be built in at the location of the one endstop or, with minimal defacement, against the external side of the one end of the upper beam.
According to the invention, this is achieved because the locking device consist of a U-shaped member having a flat bottom and legs, which member is provided at its one end with a cross-plate in which an inlet hole for a number of cords is provided. Also included in the assembly is a tumbler having a pivot shaft near its upper end, which pivot shaft is journalled in the legs of the U-shaped member near the tops of the legs, in which in the vertical position the tumbler substantially fills up the space between the legs and the bottom of the U-shaped member under the pivot axis.
The lower edge of the tumbler is spaced from the bottom by a distance smaller than the thickness of the cords, which should extend between the bottom and the lower edge. The tumbler is loaded by a member which is slidable in the cross-plate in vertical direction, and this slidable member projects a lip or the like, the free end of which may cooperate with the adjacent face of the tumbler to effect loading. In a portion of the slidable memberl which is lying in the cross-plate, an inlet hole for the cords is provided substantiallycoinciding with the inlet hole in the cross-plate, whereby the bottoms of the inlet holes are at least partly sloping upwardly in opposite direction.
Owing to the opposite slope of the bottoms of both inlet holes, at horizontal displacement of the cords 2i ii~

towards one side away -from the slope in the slidable member this member is freed, so that it does not urge longer -the -tumbler downwards.
The cords can pass below the tumbler to drop the blind.
~t horizontal displacement of the cords in the opposite direction the cords are urging the slidable member and thus the tumbler downwards, so that the cords are main~ained in each desired position of the blind.
It will be apparent that the locking device according -to the invention is not only suitable for sun-blinds in zigzag lines~ Also for so-called "Venetian blinds" it can be used, or for other foldable or windable screenes which may be closed or opened by means of cords.
The locking device according to said US-A-2~731,111 comprises also a U-shaped portion having legs between which a tumbler having a pivot shaft near its upper end is mounted. However, nevertheless this device is not suitable for a sun-blind or the like with a very modes-t upper beam.
The invention will be further explained with reference to the drawing, in which:
fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the upper beam for a zig~ag-folded sun-blind with the locking device according to the invention spaced slightly -therefrom;
fig. 2 shows a section along the axis of the locking device in the locked position;
fig. 3 is a top view of figure 2; and fig. 4 is a front view thereof.
In -fig. 1 the upper beam comprising two parts is referenced by 1 and 2. The external beam 1 consists in the known way of aluminium and the inner beam 2 in the known way of plastic. The web folded in a zigzag line is refe-renced by 3. The upper end of said web 3 is fastened to the inner beam 2.

~ t Althougtl, in fig. 1 the external beam 1 is partly cu-t away, it will be obvious that the ends of the external beam 1 and of the inner bea~ 2 terminate in one plane.
The one end at the side not shown is closed by a plastic endstop, as shown in the Dutch Patent Application 7307075. At the other end shown in fig. 1, in -the known construction also a plastic endstop is provided having an inlet hole for the cords indicated by 4.
The locking device according to the inven-tion sub-stituting the known endstop consists of a U-shaped portion having a bottom 5 and upstanding walls 6. Both the bottom 5 and the walls 6 are flat and are perpendicular to each other. At the right hand end a cross-plate 7 is provided in which an inlet hole 8 for the cords 4 is present.
At it appears from fig. 2 and 3 between the legs 6 a tumbler 9 is arranged being connected pivotably -to the legs 6 at its upper end, for example this may be imple-mented by a thin shaft 10 inserted through holes in the legs 6 and through a through-going hole in the tumble 9. In transverse direction the tumbler 9 fits between the legs 6 and may be moved freely with respect to them. The lower edge of the tumbler 9 is slightly spaced from the upper side of the bottom 5. Said distance is smaller than the diameter of the cords 4 for which the locking device is intended. This means that the tumbler 9 inclines with respect -to the vertical plane, when cords 4 are at the upper side of tt-e bottom 5.
It will be apparent -that the tumbler ~ will try to adopt a vcrtical position by own weight so that the end position with provided cords 4 is represented by the position according to fig. 2. In order to promote the movement into said end position a slidable member 14 is provided.
This member 14 consists of a rectangular vertical portion 14a and a rectangular horizontal lip 14b, perpen-dicular to each other.

The member 14 is pre-ferably made as a uni-t from stainless s-teel.
The vertical portion 14a is slidably received in a slo-t 15 in -the thic~ cross-pla-te 7.
From fig. 2 it appears -that when -the member 14 is moving downwards, the free end of the lip 14b urges the tumbler 9 downwards and frees the tumbler when moving upwards.
These movements are carried out positively by novillg the cords in the inlet hole 8 in the cross~plate 7 to the right resp. to the left.
To make this possible in the portion 14a of the member 14 also an inlet hole for -the cords 4 is provided.
This inlet hole corresponds completely to the inlet hole 8 in the cross-pla-te 7 with a bot-tom part 8a, inclining up-wards to the left, but is turned over 180. This means that the bottom part 8b of the inlet hole in the portion 14a is inclining upwards to the right.
In the rest position the cords 4 are in -the valley between the slopes 8a and 8b. When the cords in fig. 6 are moved to the left, they do not press longer on the slope 8b of the member 14. This member 14 is made free.
Moreover, the cords 4 are moving upwards along the slope 8a and swing the tumbler 9 away from the cords 4.
The blind can be dropped.
When after that the cords 4 are moved to the right in fig. 2 they urge the member 14 and thus the tumbler 9 downwards.
The U-shaped portion 5, 6 and the cross-plate 7 may be manufac-tured integrally from plastic.

Claims (2)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A cord locking device, for use in association with a sun-blind provided with an upper beam and one or more webs of sun-blinding material connected thereto, preferably material folded in a zigzag line, in which cords of the sun-blind are introduced in the upper beam through holes, said cords extend through the internal space of the upper beam to one end of the upper beam and therefrom to the outside for opening or closing the sun-blind, wherein the cord locking device comprises: a U-shaped member having a flat bottom and legs, which U-shaped member is provided at its one end with a cross-plate having defined therein an inlet hole for a number of cords; a tumbler having a pivot shaft near its upper end, which pivot shaft is journalled in the legs of the U-shaped portion near the tops of said legs, in which in the vertical position the tumbler substantially fills up the space between the legs and the bottom of the U-shaped member under the pivot axis, and the lower edge of the tumbler is spaced from the bottom by a distance smaller than the thickness of the cords, which cords should extend between the bottom and the lower edge; and a slidable member which is slidable in the cross-plate in vertical direction, said slidable member projecting a lip having a free end, the free end being capable of cooperating with the adjacent face of the tumbler so as to load the tumbler, and wherein a portion of the slidable member is lying in the cross-plate, and in said portion of the slidable member, an inlet hole for the cords is provided sub-stantially coinciding with the inlet hole in the cross-plate, and wherein each of the inlet holes is provided with a bottom, said bottoms of the inlet holes being at least partly inclined in opposite directions so as to form an apex where they intersect.
2. A cord locking device according to claim 1, wherein the U-shaped member and the cross-plate are made of plastic as integral unit, and wherein the tumbler and the slidable member are made of a stainless steel.
CA000389258A 1980-11-03 1981-11-02 Cord locking device for a sun-blind or the like Expired CA1196264A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
NL8006008A NL8006008A (en) 1980-11-03 1980-11-03 ROPE LOCKING DEVICE FOR SUN PROTECTION OR THE LIKE.
NL8006008 1980-11-03
US06/235,769 US4443915A (en) 1980-11-03 1981-02-18 Cord locking device for a sun-blind or the like
US235,769 1981-02-18

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CA (1) CA1196264A (en)
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