Blind packaging and methods of cutting window coverings

US9266639B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Newell Window Furnishings, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Timothy D. Cluett · Greenville, US
• Kristi Jane Georgi · Dunwoody, US
• Brian Bellamy Johnson · Atlanta, US
• James McCauley · Roswell, US
• William Norris Scott · Decatur, US
• Martin Richard Van Buren · Atlanta, US
• Russell Dudley Wooten · Mebane, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 19, 2010
• Grant date: Feb 23, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/04
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A package for a size-in-store window covering comprises a box having a first portion that extends for the width of the window covering and a second portion that extends for less than the width of the window covering. The window covering extends beyond an end of a bottom wall a first distance and the head rail extends beyond an end of a first side wall a second distance. A method of cutting a window covering comprises providing a window covering in a box as described above and positioning the box with the exposed portion of the window covering facing down and the exposed portion of the head rail facing a clamp. Methods of packaging a window covering comprise reducing the total number of loops in the window covering, and positioning inserts between adjacent components.