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US 5,307,536 AGranted
Windshield wiper arm
AssigneePaul Journee S.A.
InventorHenri Lescher
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Abstract
The invention proposes a windshield wiper arm of the kind comprising a wiping strip (12) for the glass and a structure acting as a wiping strip support, which is connected to the free end of a driving arm and which comprises a profiled member (10) in a single piece, to which the driving arm is coupled and which receives the wiping strip (12) directly.
Claims10
A windshield wiper blade comprising:
- a wiper strip including a hollow coupling portion, said coupling portion having a pair of spaced apart wall members, each of said wall members having an inside surface, each inside surface including a plurality of grooves, said wiper strip further including a wiper member extending from said coupling portion for engaging a surface to be wiped;
- a support member releasably locked in the space between said coupling portion wall members, said support member having a pair of spaced apart side walls and a support wall extending between said side walls, each of said side walls engaging one of the wall members of the coupling portion and having an outside surface and an inside surface, each outside surface of each said side wall having a plurality of ribs, each of said ribs being received in one of the grooves of its associated coupling portion wall member, and
- an intermediate portion having a bellows defining folds extending longitudinally, with the bellows joining the wiping element to the hollow coupling portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.