Bos Gmbh & Co Kg

Beate Krause

Holger Seel

Herbert Walter

Werner P Schlecht

Eduard Ament

Marina Ehrenberger

Hans-Joachim Winkler

A covering device for the load space of a motor vehicle, having a flexible surface structure, is held, in a rollable or extendable manner, on a winding shaft supported solidly with the loading space. A coiled spring apparatus for exerting the force for rolling up onto the surface structure is provided on the winding shaft. A form-stable extending element is positioned on one frontal end area of the surface structure. The surface structure is guided over its path of extension within the load space by a guiding device, in that at least one locking device for blocking the surface structure relative to the guiding device is provided in at least one partially-extended working position, and in that a manually-triggerable releasing device, by which the locking of the surface structure can be ended, is provided for the locking device.

Covering device for the load space of a motor vehicle

A separating mechanism,is provided which includes a winding shaft,that is rotatably supported in a housing,. A separating net,can be wound on the winding shaft,and can be stretched in the space between the housing,of the separating mechanism,and the roof lining of a passenger car. Since the winding shaft,generates a greater torque that the user must counteract with increasing draw-off of the separating net,, a drive mechanism,is provided that provides that from a predetermined draw-out length onward the drive torque for the winding shaft,is switched to a reduced level. This switch-over is either brought about as a second, weaker drive spring,is activated, or as a second drive spring,is switched parallel to the drive spring,for the winding shaft,. The two auxiliary springs,operate, however, only over a limited turning range of the winding shaft,. After this range is exceeded, the full winding force of the main spring,becomes effective again in the wind-up process.

Separating mechanism with variable pull-back force

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