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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Peter De Ceuster, Itegem, BE;
Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Verwaltungs-KG, Langenfeld, DE;
Abstract
A motor-vehicle cargo-space cover has two rails flanking the space, fixed in the motor vehicle, and defining a pair of slots. A housing releasably mounted in the vehicle and extending transversely of the rails between rear ends if the slots holds a rotatable shaft around which is wound a flexible cover sheet having a front edge provided with a stiffening bar having outer ends carrying respective slides displaceable along the respective slots and into the housing. Respective stiff tapes connected to the slides extend rearward therefrom into the housing to a drive in the housing that pays the tapes out and thereby pushes the slides forward out of the housing into the slots to deploy the sheet over the space and pulls the stiff tapes back into the housing and thereby pulls the slides back and into the housing to retract the sheet from above the space.