Roll-up cargo-space cover for motor vehicle

• US 20010038221A1
• Filed: 03/19/2001
• Published: 11/08/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Verwaltungs-KG
• Original Assignee: Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Verwaltungs-KG
• Inventors: Butz, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 6,416,105 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/37.16
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 5/047 collapsible by rolling-up

Abstract

A cover has a roll-up housing mounted in a motor vehicle at a front end of its cargo space, a sheet retractable against spring force out of the housing and having a rear edge, and a stiff end board projecting generally a full width of the sheet at the rear edge thereof and having a front edge juxtaposed with the sheet rear edge. A thick edge bar is fixed to one of the edges and the other of the edges is releasably secured to this edge bar.

Claims

1. In a motor vehicle having a cargo space, a cover comprising:

a roll-up housing mounted in the vehicle at a front end of the space;

a sheet retractable against spring force out of the housing and having a rear edge;

a stiff end board projecting generally a full width of the sheet at the rear edge thereof and having a front edge juxtaposed with the sheet rear edge;

a thick edge bar, one of the edges being fixed to the edge bar; and

means releasably securing the other of the edges to the edge bar.

2. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 1

wherein the edge bar is formed with a forwardly open groove having a wide base and a narrow throat and the sheet rear edge is enlarged and complementarily received in the groove.

3. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 2

wherein the edge bar is formed as a single unitary piece.

4. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 3

wherein the edge bar is formed unitarily with the stiff end board.

5. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 2

wherein the sheet rear edge is formed as a loop holding a stiff rod.

6. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 5

wherein the rod has projecting ends forming the pins.

7. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 2

wherein the pins are unitarily formed with the edge bar.

8. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 1

wherein the edge bar is formed with a transversely throughgoing passage, the cover further comprising

a rod extending through the passage and having ends projecting therefrom and forming the pins.

9. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 1

wherein the edge bar is formed as a pair of elongated parts, the means including screws securing the parts together.

10. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 9

wherein one of the parts is formed with a groove extending transversely and open toward the other part and the other part is formed with a ridge fitting into the groove, the sheet rear edge bar Being pinched between the ridge and groove.

11. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 9

wherein the end-board front edge is widened and the two ports formed a wide-base groove in which the widened end-board front edge is gripped.

12. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 9

wherein the two parts are unitarily formed with respective flat rearward extensions that are secured together and form the end board.

13. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 1

, further comprising:

a decorative flexible overlay sheet surrounding the end board and edge bar.

14. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 12

wherein the edge bar is formed with a rearwardly open groove in which the end-board front edge is seated, the overlay sheet engaging rearward around the end board and pressing its forward into the groove.

15. The motor-vehicle cargo-space cover defined in

claim 1

wherein the end-board front edge is provided with gripper clips engaged around the edge bar and constituting the securing means.