Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Auxiliary article compartments
Patent
1985-10-31
1987-06-09
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Auxiliary article compartments
160323R, B60R 504
Patent
active
046715576
ABSTRACT:
An automotive compartment cover assembly, for use in covering a compartment such as, for example, the windowed rear compartment of a hatchback or a station wagon type automotive vehicle, has in effect, a variable length elongated hollow cylindrical roller about which is rolled a flexible cover sheet member; at least one compression spring serves to provide a longitudinal resilient force in order to axially accommodate and provide for the variable length of the roller; at least one pre-stressed coiled retractor spring is provided for producing a rotational tension or force on the cover sheet member in a manner whereby such tension or force does not increase linearly as the cover sheet member is being extended from the roller.
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Colt Industries Inc.
Potoroka, Sr. Walter
Song Robert R.
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