Stowage compartment
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorHans-Jurgen Langer
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Abstract
A cover for a stowage compartment can pivot about a pivot axis running along the lower edge of the stowage compartment. On a stay projecting into the stowage compartment it has an eye, which engages in a guide on one side wall of the stowage compartment. This guide narrows towards the end at the opening side so that the eye is increasingly braked by clamping action as the cover is opened.
Claims4
Stowage compartment in particular a glove compartment provided for a motor car, which has a cover which is hinged about a pivoting axis running horizontally along the underside of the stowage compartment and has on one side of the cover a stirrup rigidly connected with it and projecting into the stowage compartment, which engages with an eye in a guide on the inner side wall of the stowage compartment which limits the maximum angle of opening of the cover, characterized by the fact that the guide has at least one elastic guide zone which increasingly narrows down the cross section of the guide towards the end of the guide on the opening side and that the cross section of the eye is greater than the cross section of the guide at the end on the opening side.
Stowage compartment as per one or more of the previous claims, characterized by the fact that at the end of the upper guide profile opposite the stop a strut, going towards the side wall and connected with it, is provided.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.