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French: Lame terminale

English translation: end slat







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French term or phrase:Lame terminale
English translation:end slat
Entered by:Fiona McBrearty
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Tech/Engineering - Furniture / Household Appliances
French term or phrase: Lame terminale
Armoires monobloc à rideaux
Rideaux à lamelles PVC “non feu M1”. Lame terminale à armature métallique. Serrure à barillet interchangeable. 2 clés fournies (dont une articulée anti-accrocs).

I have found "leaf" for lamelle, if that helps??
Fiona McBrearty
France
last slat, end slat
Explanation:
"Slat" is definitely the word for "lames" of the Venetian blind type. Here I take you we are dealing with a sort of sliding door made up of vertical slats, the end one (or meeting slats, if it's a double door that meets in the middle) being reinforced with steel so they can be locked.

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The sliding door and wardrobe arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein said folding collapsible sliding door is comprised of a plurality of vertical slats ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/20040113528.html

It's really amazing how many patents there are for wardrobes with sliding slat doors!!!!!
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Bourth
France
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last slat, end slat

Explanation:
"Slat" is definitely the word for "lames" of the Venetian blind type. Here I take you we are dealing with a sort of sliding door made up of vertical slats, the end one (or meeting slats, if it's a double door that meets in the middle) being reinforced with steel so they can be locked.

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Note added at 42 mins (2007-10-17 09:14:32 GMT)
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The sliding door and wardrobe arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein said folding collapsible sliding door is comprised of a plurality of vertical slats ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/20040113528.html

It's really amazing how many patents there are for wardrobes with sliding slat doors!!!!!

Bourth
France
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Note from asker to answerer
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Tony M: Or of course one of those pull-down shutters like a roll-top desk, so popular for suspension file cabinets.
2 mins

agree David Goward
42 mins

agree Charles Hawtrey
1 hr
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