Cover sleeve arrangement for a vehicle steering column

Cover sleeve arrangement for the protective covering of a clearance for the passage of a steering column of a motor vehicle through a dashboard, adjustable as to inclination, the cover sleeve covering the clearance smoothly and in a sealing manner from the edge of the clearance up to a casing of the steering column and being configured to follow the movement of the steering column in the plane of the clearance, wherein the cover sleeve is fastened by its end on the clearance side to the rear of the dashboard and by its end on the casing side to the casing so as to be movable with the casing out of the plane of the clearance when there is a longitudinal adjustment of the steering column, and wherein a frame is mounted displaceably in the axial direction of the casing on the end of the casing remote from the steering wheel, behind the cover sleeve, on which frame resilient tensioning element means fixed to the casing can act in its direction of displacement and which frame is engageable against the rear of the cover sleeve by an edge fold and braces said cover sleeve between its fastening ends as soon as the cover sleeve presses onto the frame against the tensile force of the resilient tensioning element means.