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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1997
Terence Sam Crisp, Keerbergen, BE;
Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Verwaltungs-KG, Langenfeld, DE;
Abstract
A blind for a motor-vehicle rear window has a support, a roller rotatable in the support about a roller axis, and a motor mounted on the support and connected to the roller for rotating same about its axis. A flexible shade has one edge attached to the bar and an opposite edge attached to the roller. a pair of one-piece arms have outer ends slidable along the guide bar and inner ends spaced apart along the roller axis and pivoted on the support about respective arm axes transverse to the roller axis. Respective springs braced between the inner arm ends and the support urge the arms about the respective axes in a direction moving the outer arm ends away from the support.