Motor vehicle provided with a protective covering system
AssigneeAcpv
InventorsAndre Sassi, Jocelyne Sassi
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Abstract
A motor vehicle including a rear bumper and a front bumper, and a protective tarpaulin system having a flexible tarpaulin for covering the vehicle and a rear shaft that is installed at the rear bumper, the tarpaulin being windable around the rear shaft. The vehicle is fitted with two longitudinal sheaths a longitudinal slot, a slider being received in each longitudinal sheath and being connected via a traction cable both to a front shaft and to a rear shaft, so that rotating the shafts causes the traction cable to be wound and unwound, thereby moving the slider in the longitudinal sheath, which slider entrains the tarpaulin that is connected to the slider.
Claims20
A motor vehicle defining a longitudinal direction that extends over a length of the vehicle between a rear bumper and a front bumper, the vehicle including an outer body that extends substantially from the rear bumper to the front bumper, the vehicle also being provided with a protective tarpaulin system comprising a flexible tarpaulin for covering the outer body of the vehicle at least in part so as to protect the outer body, the system further comprising a rear shaft that is installed at the rear bumper of the vehicle, the tarpaulin being windable around the rear shaft, the tarpaulin including a connection edge that is secured to the rear shaft, and an opposite edge that is free, the vehicle being fitted with two longitudinal sheaths that extend along the outer body, a slider being received in each longitudinal sheath;
- wherein each longitudinal sheath includes a longitudinal slot, each slider being provided with a traction member that is connected to the free edge of the tarpaulin and that extends through the longitudinal slot, each slider also being connected via a traction cable both to a front shaft that is installed at the front bumper of the vehicle, and also to the rear shaft that is installed at the rear bumper of the vehicle, so that rotating the front and rear shafts causes the traction cable to be wound and unwound, thereby moving the slider in the longitudinal sheath, which slider entrains the tarpaulin that is connected at the free edge to the traction member of the slider;
- wherein the longitudinal sheath is flexible and is mounted in removable manner in a longitudinally-extruding gap formed by the outer body.
A motor vehicle defining a longitudinal direction that extends over a length of the vehicle between a rear bumper and a front bumper, the vehicle including an outer body that extends substantially from the rear bumper to the front bumper, the vehicle also being provided with a protective tarpaulin system comprising a flexible tarpaulin for covering the outer body of the vehicle at least in part so as to protect the outer body, the system further comprising a rear shaft that is installed at the rear bumper of the vehicle, the tarpaulin being windable around the rear shaft, the tarpaulin including a connection edge that is secured to the rear shaft, and an opposite edge that is free, the vehicle being fitted with two longitudinal sheaths that extend along the outer body, a slider being received in each longitudinal sheath;
- wherein each longitudinal sheath includes a longitudinal slot, each slider being provided with a traction member that is connected to the free edge of the tarpaulin and that extends through the longitudinal slot, each slider also being connected via a traction cable both to a front shaft that is installed at the front bumper of the vehicle, and also to the rear shaft that is installed at the rear bumper of the vehicle, so that rotating the front and rear shafts causes the traction cable to be wound and unwound, thereby moving the slider in the longitudinal sheath, which slider entrains the tarpaulin that is connected at the free edge to the traction member of the slider
- wherein a portion of the rear shaft, comprising the winding drum with the tarpaulin wound thereon, is mounted in removable manner in the rear bumper for easy and quick replacement of the tarpaulin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.