Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B60R5/00—Compartments within vehicle body primarily intended or sufficiently spacious for trunks, suit-cases, or the like
  • B60R5/04—Compartments within vehicle body primarily intended or sufficiently spacious for trunks, suit-cases, or the like arranged at rear of vehicle
  • B60R5/044—Compartments within vehicle body primarily intended or sufficiently spacious for trunks, suit-cases, or the like arranged at rear of vehicle luggage covering means, e.g. parcel shelves
  • B60R5/045—Compartments within vehicle body primarily intended or sufficiently spacious for trunks, suit-cases, or the like arranged at rear of vehicle luggage covering means, e.g. parcel shelves collapsible or transformable
  • B60R5/047—Compartments within vehicle body primarily intended or sufficiently spacious for trunks, suit-cases, or the like arranged at rear of vehicle luggage covering means, e.g. parcel shelves collapsible or transformable collapsible by rolling-up

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a foldable tendelet suitable for being installed in the trunk of a motor vehicle in order to conceal the contents of said trunk.
• tendelets comprising a flexible apron and a housing for housing the flexible apron wound inside the housing.
• the trunk of a motor vehicle is generally delimited, forwards by the rear seat of the passenger compartment of the vehicle and towards the rear by the tailgate which closes the rear opening of the vehicle.
• the tendelet consists of a roll-up shade inside a housing and the housing is installed behind the rear seat in its upper part.
• the occulting fabric has a front edge connected to a winding shaft housed inside the housing, and opposite a rear edge to which is connected a flap extending transversely over a width corresponding to the width of the occultation canvas.
• the flap makes it possible both to maintain the rear edge of the occultation fabric in a rectilinear transverse direction and to cause the occultation fabric to unwind towards the rear and above the trunk.
• the flap has lateral lugs capable of being engaged respectively in lateral locking grooves located laterally in the side wall of the trunk and towards the rear opening to maintain the occulting fabric stretched above the trunk.
• the flap has a free edge profile determined to match the shapes of the tailgate when it is extended in a closed position of the rear opening and to hide from the outside of the vehicle, the contents of the safe.
• US 6,416,905 which describes such a tendelet.
• a problem that arises and that the present invention aims to solve is to provide a foldable tendelet that is not only relatively compact, but also inexpensive.
• the present invention proposes a collapsible tendelet intended to be installed in a trunk of a motor vehicle, said strut comprising on the one hand an apron having a front edge adapted to be mounted extended transversely towards the front of said trunk, and on the other hand a bib secured to said apron and mounted opposite said front edge, said flap being intended to be held towards the rear of said trunk and at a distance from said front edge of said apron to maintain said apron extended above said trunk said tendelet comprising a flexible occlusion cloth for forming said apron, said flexible occluding cloth having a front edge for forming said front edge of said apron.
• the tendelet further comprises a hoop having two opposite branches which extend facing one another; and said flexible occluding cloth has a transverse rear portion opposite said front edge, said rear portion being held taut between said opposite legs of said hoop to form said flap.
• a feature of the invention lies in the implementation of the only shade cloth to form both the apron and the flap through the hoop.
• the apron and the flap are formed of a single piece and a single material, which reduces costs.
• the flap which is according to the prior art installed pivotally on the rear edge of the deck, and which then requires a suitable device, does not require according to the present invention any additional element.
• the hoop and the rear portion of the flexible occlusion cloth stretched between its branches are able to pivot together relative to the deck extended around an axis that extends according to the apron and joins the free ends of opposite branches as will be explained below.
• the flap has a thickness equivalent to that of the blackout fabric and is therefore very thin and not bulky, which facilitates its retraction in a small space.
• the tendelet advantageously comprises lateral fastening members for respectively maintaining said two opposite branches of said bow at a distance from said front edge of said deck.
• These lateral fixing members are preferably installed at the level of side shelves which extend against the side walls of the trunk between the rear seat and the rear opening.
• the lateral fastening members comprise tensioners, for example spring cylinders, intended to maintain by force said two opposite branches of said arch apart from said front edge of said deck. In this way, the deck remains in tension above said safe.
• tensioners for example spring cylinders
• the tendelet further comprises a transverse bar anchor connected to said front edge of said shade cloth. Indeed, one can then get rid of a shaft winding system provided with a return spring and housed inside a housing.
• a shaft winding system provided with a return spring and housed inside a housing.
• said opposite branches of said hoop end respectively with a free end, the free ends of said branches extending substantially parallel facing each other, while said flexible hiding fabric has two opposite side edges apt to be respectively connected to said free ends.
• the occulting fabric is tensioned transversely between the two free ends of the branches, which are connected to two opposite portions of the lateral edges of the occulting fabric.
• the transverse band of the occulting fabric between said two opposite portions of the lateral edge is then stretched and delimits the same fabric occultation between the flexible part, that is to say the apron, and the stiffened part, that is to say the flap.
• the rear portion of blackout fabric that extends to the rear of the aforementioned transverse strip is indeed stretched and that is what gives it its rigidity.
• said free ends each comprise a pivot shaft, the pivoting shafts of said free ends being oriented coaxially in opposite directions from each other.
• the pivoting shafts extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the free ends of the branches which are parallel to each other. Therefore, and as will be explained below in more detail, the pivot shafts are respectively capable of being engaged in lateral cylindrical housings arranged in the lateral attachment members to be able to rotate the flap while retaining the apron extended above the chest. This allows to a certain extent, to partially discover the trunk when the tailgate is raised to access the rear part of the trunk.
• said free ends preferably each comprise a plate, the plates of said free ends being oriented in opposite directions from one another.
• the plates are intended to be engaged in horizontal lateral grooves, made in the lateral fasteners, towards the rear of the box, so as to maintain the flap horizontally.
• said plates of said free ends respectively comprise two superimposed plates capable of coming in a vice, in particular the lateral edge of said flexible occlusion cloth. These two superimposed plates are preferably kept close to one another by means of screws.
• said free ends of said opposite branches of said bow are respectively able to cooperate with said lateral fixing members, and this, in particular to allow the pivoting of the flap and its retention, not only in the horizontal position but also in its raised position.
• said transverse rear portion of said shade cloth has a rear edge folded to form a hem, said hoop being inserted inside said hem. In this way, the arch is masked and the apron and the bib appear as being formed of the only shade cloth.
• FIG. 1 is a partial schematic perspective view of a tendelet according to the invention
• FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic cross-sectional detail view of the tendelet illustrated in FIG. 1 and on the plane II-II;
• FIG. 3 is a partial schematic perspective view of another element of the tendelet
• FIG. 4 is a partial schematic perspective view of the tendelet according to the invention according to another embodiment.
• FIG. 5 is a schematic partial rear view of the tendelet according to said other embodiment and in a raised position.
• Figure 1 illustrates a foldable tendelet 10 according to the invention and extended in an unfolded position in a longitudinal direction L, which longitudinal direction L corresponds to that of a motor vehicle within which the tendelet is adapted to be installed. It comprises an apron 12 having a front edge 13, and opposite the front edge 13, towards the rear and in the extension of the deck 12, a flap 14.
• the front edge 13 of the deck 12 is intended to be maintained at level of an upper edge of a rear seat back of a motor vehicle not shown, while the apron 12 extends above the trunk to obscure its contents and the flap 14 reaches a tailgate capable of closing the door. rear opening of said trunk.
• the apron 12 and the flap 14 are formed in one piece by the implementation of a flexible shade cloth 16, made for example of a polymeric material, and a hoop 18, which is formed of high-grade steel. resistance, for example silicon steel.
• the flexible shade screen 16 has a front portion 13 forming the apron 12 and a rear portion 15 forming the flap 14.
• the occulting cloth 16 is according to a particular embodiment, and illustrated in Figure 1, consisting of two superimposed layers, a layer Place 17 and a backing layer 19.
• the shade cloth 16 has two opposite side edges 20, 22 and a front edge 24.
• the front edge 24 can be folded to form a rectilinear front hem within which is engaged a bar transverse anchoring 28, and this when the flexible shade cloth 16 consists of a single layer.
• the occulting fabric 16 being constituted here of the two superimposed layers 17, 19, the transverse anchoring bar 28 is then trapped between these two layers 17, 19 by means of two parallel welds before 27, 29 of the two layers, on each side of the bar, which then form a rectilinear front sheath 26.
• the transverse anchoring bar 28 has two anchoring ends 30, 32 which extend respectively projecting from the opposite lateral edges 20, 22. In the case of a hem, it is for example formed by welding the fold of the flexible shade screen on itself.
• the arch 18 has two opposite branches 34, 36 which extend symmetrically from each other with respect to a vertical median plane Pm and also facing one another.
• the two opposite branches 34, 36 end respectively in a substantially straight length 38, 40.
• the free ends 38, 40, of the two opposite branches 34, 36 extend substantially parallel to each other and respectively in the extension of the opposite lateral edges 22, 20 of the occulting cloth 16.
• the free ends 38, 40 each comprise a plate
• FIG. 2 thus shows, in section, the two upper plates 46, lower 48 connected together by the screws 50, 52 and which trap both the free end 40 of the branch 34 of the arch 18 and the layers 17 and 19 of the flexible shade screen 16.
• the upper plate 46 has an upper edge 54 through which are drilled two orifices 56 at a distance from one another and which pass through in part to receive respectively the two screws 50, 52, while the lower plate 48 has a lower edge 58 through which are formed two threads 60 in correspondence with the two orifices 56.
• the upper plates 46 and 48 below present respectively an upper longitudinal inner hemicylindrical cavity 62 spaced from the upper edge 54 and in correspondence, a lower longitudinal inner hemicylindrical cavity 64 equals spaced from the lower edge 58.
• the free end 40 inserted between the layer 17 and the layer 1 9 of the flexible occluding cloth 16 is thus engaged and clamped inside the two longitudinal hemicylindrical cavities 62, 64, by forcing the two plates 46, 48 together by tightening the screws 50, 52.
• the other plate 42 shown in FIG. 1, opposite to that 44 described with reference to FIG. 2 is symmetrical with respect to the median plane Pm, so that the flexible occulting fabric 16 has a transverse band 66 which is maintained taut between the two plates 42, 44, which has the advantage of not requiring the addition of a stiffening means of this area.
• the rear portion 1 5 of the flexible occulting fabric 1 6 consisting of the two superposed layers 17, 19 has a rear edge 68 and the arch 18 is trapped between the two superimposed layers 17, 19 in the rear edge 68 through two parallel rear welds 70, 72 of the two layers spaced apart from each other.
• a rear sheath is formed inside which the hoop 18 extends.
• the two superposed layers 17, 19 of the flexible occulting fabric 16 extend on either side, and beyond Beyond the arch 18. These two are kept in tension superimposed layers 17, 19 and it comes to perform a first outward welding of the arch 18 to maintain the rear portion 15 in tension. Then the remaining portion of the flexible occulting fabric 16 which extends beyond Beyond the arch 18.
• the lateral attachment member 78 to be mounted substantially horizontally in the side wall of the trunk of the motor vehicle.
• the lateral attachment member 78 has a front end 80 and an opposite rear end 82; it is installed so that the front end 80 extends near the upper edge of the back seat back, and the rear end 82 near the rear opening of said trunk.
• the lateral fixing member 78 has a longitudinal casing 79 inside which extends longitudinally a spring piston 84 forming a tensioner, having a body 86 and a rod 88 slidably mounted inside the body 86 and which is recalled by a spring 90.
• the body 86 has a fastening end 92 mounted fixed towards the front end 80, while the rod 88 has a free end 94 extended longitudinally in a longitudinal transverse groove 96 of the rear end 82 of the lateral fixing member 78 and which opens laterally towards the inside of the box.
• the transverse groove 96 has a bottom wall 97 through which the rod 88 passes.
• the lateral fixing member 78 comprises an internal L-shaped groove 98.
• the trunk of the motor vehicle has two lateral fasteners 78 opposite one another respectively mounted against the side walls of the trunk.
• the two anchoring ends 30, 32 of the transverse anchor bar 28 are intended to be engaged respectively in the inner L-shaped grooves 98 of the two lateral attachment members 78 facing each other, whereas the plates 42, 44 are engaged respectively in the transverse grooves 96 and that their return 74, 76 are in axial abutment against the free end 94 of the rod 88.
• the plates 42, 44 are thus engaged in the transverse grooves 96 by grasping the flap 14 and extending the apron 12 towards the rear opening of the vehicle.
• FIG. 4 illustrating a particular mode of implementation of plates.
• This figure 4 shows all the elements of the foldable tendelet 10 shown in FIG. 1 with identical shape and having similar references, except for the plate 42 ', the shape of which is different and which, for this purpose, has a similar reference assigned to FIG. a sign "'" .
• the other elements of the plate 42 'having a similar function are also identically referenced and assigned the same sign. The same goes for the two superposed plates 46 ', 48' which grip the end free 38 of the arch 18 and the flexible shade cloth 16 with two screws 50 ', 52'.
• the free end 38 of the arch 18 further includes a pivot shaft 100 which projects from the plate 42 'which holds it in a fixed position relative to the arch 18.
• the pivot shaft 100 is oriented transversely outwardly of the hoop 18.
• the opposite plate not shown is also provided with such a pivot shaft, the two pivot shafts 100 then extending coaxially.
• the transverse groove 96 'formed in the inner wall of the housing 79' is here shallower than that of the previous implementation mode and it has a cylindrical orifice 102 formed in the bottom transversely and in which is journalled the shaft of pivoting 100.
• the inner wall of the housing 79 ' has a vertical lateral groove 103 also shallow, opening into the longitudinal transverse groove 96' and extending substantially perpendicular to the latter.
• the plate 42 ' is engaged vertically inside the vertical lateral groove 103 and, in this position, allows the bib 14 to be held in a vertical fixed position.
• the opposite plate is itself engaged. in the corresponding vertical lateral groove of the opposite lateral fixing member.
• the flap 14 can be adjusted in two different positions, a normal horizontal position of concealment of said box and a vertical position of partial access to said box. It is then unnecessary to provide a more complex mechanism for maintaining the flap 14 in these two distinct positions.
• the lateral fixing members (78,78 ') and the plates (42, 42') are shaped so that, in the case where a heavy object is placed on the shelf, the plates disengage from the lateral fixing members. , so as to avoid deterioration of the side members and plates or the deformation of the fabric of the tablet.

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