Safety Devices

Applications

Strengths

Limitations

Fixed cord or ball- chain tension pulley.

For traversing cords on vertical blinds, and/or tilt operation and mono blinds.

Reduces the risk of young children or vunerable persons pulling the cord or ball chains around their necks.

Correct fitting required to ensure the cord or ball-chain is tensioned.

Cord or ball-chain tidy

For traversing cords on vertical blinds, and/or tilt operation, and mono-blinds.

Reducesthe risk of young children or vulnerable persons pulling the cord or ball-chain around their necks.

Correct fitting required to ensure cord or ball-chain is is tensioned.

Cord Safety Tassel

For pull cord on cord operated venetian and pleated blinds.

A release  device that breaks when excessive force is applied to the cord, thereby removing the loop.

Cords may inadvertently become twisted together or knotted, to form a loop.

Ball-chain safety connector

For all ball-chain operated blinds, whether for tilting, raising and lowering or mono-operation.

A release device that breaks when excessive force is applied to the ball chain, thereby removing the loop.

Ball-chains may inadvertently become twisted together or knotted, to form a loop.

Pull cord stop

For pleated and venetian blinds, to reduce the possibility of a loop being formed from inner pull cords.

Increases difficulty in freeing surplus pull cord from the head of the blind.

Does nothing to prevent freeing of surplus inner cord from the bottom rail upwards.

Cleats

For all products as a means of ensuring cords or ball-chains are kept out of reach of young children or vulnerable persons

Needs to be mounted at a sufficient height to ensure cord or ball-chain is well out of reach.

Cord or ball-chain must be kept fully wrapped around cleat at all times, when not in use. Secure fixing is required.

Individual cord or ball-chain tassels.

For all products where cutting of tilting and raising/lowering cords or ball chains does not interfere with the functioning of the product.

Removes cord loop.

Cords or ball-chains may inadvertently become twisted together or knotted, to form a loop.