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Venetian blind and frame for vehicles

  • US 4,444,239 A
  • Filed: 01/31/1983
  • Issued: 04/24/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In combination, an upwardly and inwardly inclined window frame mounted in and having walls lining a motor vehicle window opening formed in an upwardly and inwardly curved vehicle wall, and a venetian blind fitting in said frame with clearance and having upper and lower headers with projecting end pintles, a plurality of spaced horizontal slats, slat supports and tension means connected to and extending between said headers for pulling toward each other said headers and tensioning said slat supports, said frame having upper openings for receiving the end pintles of said upper header, and rigid socket means at a lower portion of said frame having grooves for releasably receiving the pintles of said lower header, said tension means retaining said lower header pintles in locking engagement in said grooves and positioning said slats within the upwardly and inwardly inclined space outlined by said frame walls, whereby said tensioning means serve the dual purpose of positioning said slats within the outline of the window frame when said lower header pintles are locked in said grooves and of collapsing said blind vertically when said lower header pintles are released from said grooves.

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