Shading apparatus for a vehicle interior of a motor vehicle

A shading apparatus for use in an interior of a motor vehicle, said shading apparatus comprising:

• a carrier frame, said carrier frame including a pair of guiding profile arrangements, said guiding profile arrangements being laterally spaced from one another in a direction transverse to a longitudinal front-to-back direction of the motor vehicle, each said guiding profile arrangement including a longitudinally extending channel having an open entry end;
• a roller blind shaft having opposite ends rotatably supported on said carrier frame;
• a flexible roller blind web retained on said roller blind shaft such that said roller blind web is unwindable from said roller blind shaft in an extension direction into an extended position and windable onto said roller blind shaft into a retracted position, said roller blind web having a pair of longitudinally extending edge portions spaced apart from one another in the direction transverse to the longitudinal front-to-back direction of the motor vehicle, said roller blind web including a pair of longitudinally extending lateral guiding strips each fixed to one of said edge portions, said lateral guiding strips being configured to tension said roller blind web in a direction transverse to the extension direction of the roller blind web when in the extended position;
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• a pair of support guides, said support guides being laterally spaced from one another in the direction transverse to the longitudinal front-to-back direction of the motor vehicle, each said support guide being mounted on said carrier frame adjacent one of said ends of said roller blind shaft, each said support guide being configured for guiding one of said lateral guiding strips of said roller blind web into said open entry end of said channel of one of said guiding profile arrangements, each said support guide being disposed longitudinally between said one end of said roller blind shaft and said open entry end of said one guiding profile arrangement, and each said support guide including a resiliently flexible guiding flap disposed to support from below part of said edge portion of said roller blind web during movement of said roller blind web into the extended or the retracted position, said part being joined to the respective lateral guiding strip.