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Blind
- Any window covering with movable slats or louvers
for modulating light and privacy through the window
covering.
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Bottom rail
- Element of horizontal blind or shade, normally at
the bottom, which is moved by the lift cords in order to
raise or lower the blind or shade.
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Break-Thru™ safety tassel
- Hunter Douglas tassel designed to protect children
and pets by separating into two halves when something is
caught between the cords of a window covering. To
reassemble, simply snap the halves together. To
reassemble a four-cord tassel place loose cords in slot
in top of tassel halves and snap the halves together.
[Break-Thru tassel example]
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Braided ladder
- Element of a horizontal blind which supports slats.
Constructed of two parallel cords connected at right
angles to each other by short strings called rungs — the
slats are supported by the rungs.
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Cellular shade
- Any shade which, when utilized, creates air spaces
in the form of tubes or cells in order to increase
thermal efficieny, sound absorption, or opacity.
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Clutch-lift
- Any specialty window covering which uses a RollEase®
(or equivilent) lift system. Brand-specific names of
clutch-lifts are: EasyGlide (Hunter
Douglas), EasyUp (Bali,
Graber, Nanik), and Activator (LouverDrape,
Fashion Tech, Verosol)
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Cordlock
- Mechanism which holds a horizontal blind or shade
open by friction on the lift cords.
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Duette® shade
- Registered trademark for honeycomb shade
manufactured by Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, Inc.
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Head rail
- Element of window covering, normally at the top,
which is attached to the installation brackets and
houses the operational components (i.e. cordlock,
carriers, etc.) of the window covering.
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Horizontal blind
- Any blind with horizontally oriented slats.
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Honeycomb shade
- Cellular shade
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Inside mount
- Measurement specification for manufacturing a window
covering intended to fit inside a window casing. The
manufacturer will take a standard deduction from the
specified measurement to allow for proper operation of
the window covering within the window casing.
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Louver
- Element of a blind (usually a vertical blind),
similar to a slat but may be made of cloth or a rigid
material like plastic, aluminum, or wood.
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Macro blind
- Horizontal blind with 2" slats
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Metal head
- Venetian blind with metal headrail
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Micro blind
- Horizontal blind with ½" slats
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Mini blind
- Horizontal blind with 1" slats
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Motorized window covering
- Any blind or shade operated by an electric motor via
a wall-mounted switch or remote control unit.
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Mylar shade
- Roller shade constructed with transparent Mylar film
for fabric. Very effective for minimizing glare,
interior heat gain, and ultraviolet radiation damage
without obstructing the view through a window.
Ineffective for night time privacy.
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Outside Mount
- Measurement specification for manufacturing window
coverings intended to be installed outside the window
casing. Manufacturers will normally not make any
adjustments to the specified measurements.
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Pleated shade
- Any shade in which the fabric is folded and creased
in an accordian-like manner. Similar to Cellular shade,
but lacking air cells.
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PowerRise®
- Registered trademark for battery-powered,
remote-controlled, motorized window coverings
manufactured by Hunter Douglas, Inc. Available on
Duette® and Silhouette® products.
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R-value
- Numeric measurement of a material's resistance to
thermal transfer. The measurement represents the time it
takes for one degree Fahrenheit of heat to transfer
through the material. The larger the number the better
the insulation provided by the material.
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Record
- replace lift or draw cord in blind, shade, or
traverse rod.
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RollEase®
- Registered trademark of a clutch-driven shade
lifting system manufactured by General Clutch, Inc. It
is comprised of a loop (either cord or chain) which
operates a clutched roller driver. Pulling the loop one
direction will raise the shade, while pulling the loop
in the opposite direction will lower the shade.
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Roller shade
- Any shade in which fabric is wrapped around a roller
and is operated by winding and unwinding.
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RV & boat
- Any specialty shade made specifically for a
recreational vehicle or marine vessel.
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Shade
- Any window covering which, when utilized, lacks a
mechanism for modulating light and privacy through the
window covering.
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Shade roller
- Long tube or dowel with a winding mechanism on which
shade fabric is wrapped.
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Skylight shade
- Any specialty window covering made to fit a window
which is not perpendicular to the floor.
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Slat
- Element of a horizontal blind, usually made of wood
or aluminum, which obstructs light and view through a
window and is supported by ladders.
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Slat Length
- Measurement across the long side of a slat.
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Slat Size
- Measurement across the short side of a slat.
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Tape Ladder
- Element of a horizontal blind which supports slats.
Constructed of two parallel strips of cloth or plastic
approximately 1½" wide connected at right angles to each
other with narrower strips of the same material called
rungs — the slats are supported by the rungs
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Tiltgear
- Mechanism by which the slats of a blind are adjusted
to modulate the light through the blind.
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Top-down/bottom-up
- Specialty shade with two sets of lift cords. The
first set controls the bottom rail like a standard
rectangular shade. The second set controls a middle rail
which is attached to the top of the shade fabric. When
lowered, this middle rail reveals the window from the
head rail to the middle rail.
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Traverse rod
- Device from which a drapery is hung which has a draw
cord to facilitate the opening and closing of the
drapery.
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Vane
- Element of a blind, synonymous with louver.
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Venetian blind
- Any horizontal blind. Usually in reference to older
style blinds.
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Vertical blind
- Any blind with vertically oriented vanes.
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Wood blind
- Any blind with wooden slats or vanes.
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Wood rail
- Venetial blind with wood head and tilt rails. Wood
rails may have wood or metal slats.
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