A vehicle cover device including a flexible cover sheet 10 and a car cover compartment (12, Figure 1). The device can operably be attachable to the vehicle including disposed within a bumper of the vehicle. The car cover compartment includes a longitudinally extending cover sheet housing (12), which houses the flexible cover sheet 10 when in a stored state. The car cover compartment includes a cover-sheet cleaning and retraction mechanism 50, 52, which includes a striker bar 36 that repeatedly strikes the cover sheet 10 when the cover sheet 10 is retracted into the housing (12) to a non-deployed storage position. The cover sheet cleaning and retraction mechanism may comprise a ratchet mechanism 48, 58 and a striker disc 56 may be provided having a plurality of spaced-apart indentations on a peripheral edge to facilitate intermittent raising of the striker bar 36. There may be provided a spring member 44 forming part of the cleaning mechanism and to which the striker bar 36 may be attached.
Vehicle cover device
2016-03-09
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60J WINDOWS, WINDSCREENS, NON-FIXED ROOFS, DOORS, OR SIMILAR DEVICES FOR VEHICLES , Fenster, Windschutzscheiben und bewegbare Dächer, Türen oder Ähnliches für Fahrzeuge / B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR |