Method of forming a windshield wiper
AssigneeCooper Automotive S.A.
InventorsAlexandre Jean Rosiere, Dieter Cecilia Saedelaere
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Abstract
A method of forming a windshield wiper which comprises an oscillating arm and a frame connected thereto receiving a wiping element, wherein the wiping element is reinforced by at least one backing strip located in a longitudinally extending recess provided in the wiping element, wherein the frame has at least one claw which partially surrounds the backing strip and the upper portion of the wiping element, wherein laterally extending means are provided for retaining the backing strip, and wherein the backing strip is flattened at a distance from its end over a portion of its length, in which portion said means are formed by a material removing operation.
Claims7
A method of forming a windshield wiper, comprising:
- providing a backing strip blank;
- flattening the backing strip blank at a distance from its end over a portion of its length;
- carrying out a material removing operation for forming a retaining structure in the flattened portion of the backing strip blank to form the backing strip;
- inserting the backing strip in a longitudinally extending recess of a wiping element;
- and
- inserting the wiping element in a frame having at least one claw, wherein:
- flattening the backing strip blank comprises a flattened portion at a distance from its end over a portion of its length and over an entire width of at least a part of the portion of the length, the flattened portion including the retaining structure serving to retain the backing strip;
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- the retaining structure cooperates with the wiping element and the claw so as to retain the backing strip on the wiping element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.