Cargo space covering for a motor vehicle
AssigneeBaumeister & Ostler GmbH & Co.
InventorsEduard Ament, Holger Seel
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Abstract
A cargo space covering is provided which has axially movable lateral housing parts for the fastening in vehicle-fixed holding devices. A locking device is assigned to at least one lateral housing part, which locking device, when the locking position of the lateral housing part is reached, can be changed from an inoperative position into an operative position in which the locking device exercises an additional retaining force onto the lateral housing part relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing which supplements the spring force.
Claims20
Cargo space covering for a motor vehicle comprising:
- two lateral housing parts which are mutually arranged at least at end areas of a housing coaxially with respect to a housing longitudinal axis of the housing, and
- a bearing shaft in said housing for bearing a planar structure which can be wound and unwound with respect to the longitudinal axis,
- wherein the lateral housing parts are fastenable at respective axial exterior ends in vehicle-fixed holding devices with at least one of the lateral housing parts being pressable axially by means of an axial spring arranged in the bearing shaft and exerting a spring force acting axially toward an outside relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing from a release position releasing the vehicle-fixed holding devices into a locking position fastened in the vehicle-fixed holding devices, and
- wherein a locking device is assigned to at least one of the lateral housing parts such that when the locking position of the respective lateral housing part has been reached, the locking device can be moved from its inoperative position into an operative position in which the locking device exercises an additional retaining force onto the lateral housing part relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing which supplements the spring force of the axial spring.
A cargo space covering arrangement for a vehicle, comprising:
- a bearing shaft which in use supports a flexible flat cover member wound thereon,
- lateral housing parts supporting the bearing shaft at respective opposite axial ends of the bearing shaft,
- said lateral housing parts being axially movable with respect to one another and being continuously resiliently biased away from one another by at least one resilient member to accommodate selective installation and removal of said housing parts from vehicle borne holding devices,
- and a selectively engageable locking device operable to provide an axial holding force on said at least one lateral housing part, which holding force is separate from and in addition to axial holding forces from said at least one resilient member and positively locks said lateral housing part in an installed position of the cargo space covering with respect to the vehicle borne holding devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.