Window covering sizing method and apparatus

US8631732B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Newell Window Furnishings, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Clifford Birch · Monroe, US
• Paul Christopher Brown · Elgin, US
• Thomas A. Caputo · Greensboro, US
• Neil L. Casstevens · Colfax, US
• Lawrence Powell Doyle · Reidsville, US
• Mark A. Fox · San Francisco, US
• Brian Bellamy Johnson · Atlanta, US
• Martin Richard Van Buren · Atlanta, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 21, 2014
• Expiry date: Aug 17, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/7763
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for cutting a window covering and methods of cutting a window covering are provided. A method of operating a window covering cutting machine comprises a) packaging a window covering comprising components in a package such that first ends of the components extend beyond a first end of the package and second ends of the components extend beyond a second end of the package; b) automatically moving the package and components in a first direction of travel against a first squaring surface such that the first ends of the components are in a common plane; c) cutting the first ends of the components; d) automatically moving the package and components in a second direction of travel against a second squaring surface such that the second ends of the components are in a common plane; and e) cutting the second ends of the components.