A brake arrangement, for a retractable screen arrangement in which the a screen roller applies a retraction force to the screen and brake arrangement, includes a brake arrangement, for providing a braking force between the brake arrangement and a track which guides the brake arrangement, to resist retraction. The brake arrangement provides a brake member with a friction surface for contacting the bearing surface; a brake member support for supporting the brake member; and a forcing arrangement for forcing the friction surface against the bearing surface. The forcing arrangement includes a biasing arrangement for biasing the friction surface onto the bearing surface, and a force-increasing arrangement for increasing the force with which the friction surface engages the bearing surface. The force increasing arrangement converts a frictional force between the friction surface and the track into additional contact pressure force of the friction surface onto the guide track.

A brake arrangement, for a retractable screen arrangement in which the a screen roller applies a retraction force to the screen and brake arrangement, includes a brake arrangement, for providing a braking force between the brake arrangement and a track which guides the brake arrangement, to resist retraction. The brake arrangement provides a brake member with a friction surface for contacting the bearing surface; a brake member support for supporting the brake member; and a forcing arrangement for forcing the friction surface against the bearing surface. The forcing arrangement includes a biasing arrangement for biasing the friction surface onto the bearing surface, and a force-increasing arrangement for increasing the force with which the friction surface engages the bearing surface. The force increasing arrangement converts a frictional force between the friction surface and the track into additional contact pressure force of the friction surface onto the guide track.

A cordless retractable shade including an operating system for the shade that varies a biasing force of a spring to counterbalance the shade. The bottom rail of a retractable shade can be raised or lowered, and due to the operating system remains in any selected position of the covering between fully extended and fully retracted, without the use of operating cords. The system includes a method of negating and reversing the spring bias effect at a strategic position whereby the flexible vanes of the shade can be adjusted between open and closed.

A cordless retractable shade including an operating system for the shade that varies a biasing force of a spring to counterbalance the shade. The bottom rail of a retractable shade can be raised or lowered, and due to the operating system remains in any selected position of the covering between fully extended and fully retracted, without the use of operating cords. The system includes a method of negating and reversing the spring bias effect at a strategic position whereby the flexible vanes of the shade can be adjusted between open and closed.

A clock comprises an alarm clock housing having a front face, a clock display occupying at least a portion of the front face, a control on the housing for activating a shade positioning function, and a processor within the housing. The processor is responsive to the control for generating at least one shade positioning command to be transmitted to at least one motorized window shade, so as to cause the motorized window shade to move to one or more position at one or more corresponding predetermined interval relative to an alarm time.

Disclosed are a roller blind balance regulator and a roller blind composed thereof. The roller blind balance regulator includes a stepped shaft and a friction cylinder, where the stepped shaft is provided with an external thread, the stepped shaft penetrates the friction cylinder, the friction cylinder is provided with an internal thread and is in threaded connection with the stepped shaft, and a friction layer is arranged between the friction cylinder and the stepped shaft. The roller blind includes a roller blind rod, a blind fabric, two mounting members, and the roller blind balance regulator, and a return spring is arranged in the roller blind rod. In the present invention, the roller blind rod drives the friction cylinder to rotate, so that the friction cylinder axially moves along a limiting screw while rotating, thereby increasing or decreasing a friction force between the friction cylinder and the friction layer.

A roman shade includes a rolling assembly, two brackets, a beam, a fabric, and a roller shade; both ends of the rolling assembly are respectively supported by the two brackets and the two brackets are disposed on the beam. The beam includes a side wall connected to the fabric. The roller shade is attached to the back of the fabric. The roller shade includes a top portion secured to the rolling assembly. The rolling assembly includes a housing, a shaft, an end connector, a sealed fixing element, a spring, and a fixed part. The shaft is disposed in the housing. The housing includes an inner wall including a plurality of ribs disposed at intervals. The shaft includes a first end and a second end. The first end is rotatably disposed through the end connector and secured to one of the two brackets.

A retractable door sill, including: a mounting base, the mounting base including an upper fixing base and a lower fixing base; a rotating drum, the rotating drum being arranged between the tipper fixing base and the lower fixing base, a partition cloth, a torsion spring being configured to make the rotating drum rotate in one direction around its axis, the rotating drum wind up the partition cloth; and an adjusting device, the adjusting device comprising an adjusting rod and an adjusting mechanism, one end of the torsion spring being connected to the rotating drum, the other end of the torsion spring being connected to the adjusting rod of the adjusting device, the adjusting mechanism being configured to enable the adjusting rod to rotate unidirectionally around its own axis, and the adjusting rod being configured to change a torsional deformation of the torsion spring through its own rotation.

A retractable door sill, including: a mounting base, the mounting base including an upper fixing base and a lower fixing base; a rotating drum, the rotating drum being arranged between the tipper fixing base and the lower fixing base, a partition cloth, a torsion spring being configured to make the rotating drum rotate in one direction around its axis, the rotating drum wind up the partition cloth; and an adjusting device, the adjusting device comprising an adjusting rod and an adjusting mechanism, one end of the torsion spring being connected to the rotating drum, the other end of the torsion spring being connected to the adjusting rod of the adjusting device, the adjusting mechanism being configured to enable the adjusting rod to rotate unidirectionally around its own axis, and the adjusting rod being configured to change a torsional deformation of the torsion spring through its own rotation.

An operating assembly for a roller shade including a shade mount rotationally connected to the roller shade concurrent to movement thereof between lowered and raised orientations. A bracket assembly interconnects opposite ends the shade mount and a supporting surface and a drive assembly, a drive unit and an idler unit, is interconnected between the bracket assembly and the shade mount in rotationally driving relation to said shade mount. The bracket assembly includes at least one bracket disposed in supporting interconnection between said drive unit and a support surface and structured for supporting interconnection with different types of drive units.