Web cover or arrangement for the trunk space of a motor vehicle
AssigneeBaumeister & Ostler GmbH & Co.
InventorEduard Ament
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Abstract
A cover for the access opening of a motor vehicle. The cover has a web by which the access opening is to be closed. On the sides of the access opening are attached guide rails in which the struts attached to the web travel back and forth. In order to remove or reinstall easily the web from the vehicle, there are receiving pieces which cooperate with the guide rails to receive the ends of the struts when the web is retracted. To prevent an inadvertent separation of the struts and roller web from the receiving means when the cover is removed from the guide rails, there are blocking arrangements which prevent the struts from leaving the receiving pieces unless the receiving pieces are attached to the guide rails.
Claims23
An assembly for covering an access opening of a storage space in a motor vehicle comprising a web for covering the access opening;
- opposing guide rails running parallel to one another in a spaced relationship, which run in a common plane over the access opening to be closed by the web;
- a number of struts fastened to the web in parallel spacing, which reinforce the web and are supported on their ends by the guide rails;
- receiving devices contained within pocket portions of the guide rails and cooperating with the guide rails for receiving all the struts when the web is in a retracted position exposing the access opening and which together with the struts and the web are separable from the pocket portions of the guide rails;
- locking members in the receiving devices, each being movable between a locked position which prevent the struts separating from the receiving device and a free position in which the struts are freely separable from the receiving device;
- and an actuating system in each receiving device that cooperates with an associated one of the pocket portions of the guide rail to transfer the locking member from the locked position when the receiving device is separated from the respective pocket portion into the free position when the receiving device is inserted into the pocket portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.