Releasable end stop - Patent 1111184

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EP 1 111 184 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	12.06.2002 Bulletin 2002/24

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	27.06.2001 Bulletin 2001/26

(21)	Application number: 00310847.9

(22)	Date of filing: 06.12.2000

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: E06B 9/36

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

14.12.1999 EP 99204295

(71)	Applicant: HUNTER DOUGLAS INDUSTRIES B.V.
	3071 EL Rotterdam (NL)

(72)	Inventor:
	Welfonder, Konrad 27574 Bremerhaven (DE)

(74)	Representative: Smith, Samuel Leonard
	J.A. Kemp & Co., 14 South Square, Gray's Inn London WC1R 5JJ London WC1R 5JJ (GB)

(54)	Releasable end stop

(57) A releasable end stop for an assembly of carriers (11) and spacers (13) that can be moved longitudinally within a head rail (4) of an architectural covering (1), such as a vertical venetian blind, to open and close the covering; the end stop comprising a longitudinally-movable release plate (27) in the head rail (4) that is between an active end cap (6) and a trailing spacer (13B) of a most trailing carrier (11 B) and that is affixed to a trailing end (14B) of the trailing spacer (13B) of the most trailing carrier (11B) and a longitudinally-extending, flexible resilient tongue (31) that is on the active end cap (6) and is adapted to detachably hold the release plate (27) against movement of the release plate away from the active end cap (6) with longitudinal movement of the spacers (13) and carriers (11) away from the active end cap.

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