Slatted window assembly

Claim 1

In a window assembly having a frame and a flexible slatted curtain carried by said frame between spaced guide means, a winding device, one end of said curtain connected to said winding device, means for rotating said winding device to cause said curtain to be wound about and unwound from the winding device in shifting between raised and loweed positions, the improvement wherein said curtain includes a plurality of slats located side by side, each slat including a channel part and a cover, each channel part including a base having end portions and spaced sides projecting from said base, said sides defining opposed groove means extending between said base end portions, a pin carried by said base at each end portion thereof, each pin projecting outwardly from said base and terminating adjacent the level of said opposed groove means, a slotted opening formed in each side at each base end portion between said base and the groove means of the side, a plurality of links each having a longitudinal slot formed therein extending from one end portion to the other end portion of the link, a said link located at corresponding base end portions of adjacent channel parts and having one of its end portions fitted through a said slotted opening in one adjacent channel part with the pin thereof extending lockingly through said slot in the link and having its other end portion fitted through a said slotted opening in the other adjacent channel part with the pin thereof extending lockingly through said slot in the link, a said cover fitted between the sides of each channel part within said groove means of the channel part and overlying each pin of the channel part and locked link end portions.