Patent ID: 8881789
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
1. A roller assembly for a motor vehicle comprising: a rotatably supported winding shaft, a flexible fabric sheet which is wound up on the winding shaft when in a stowed condition and which is unwound in a longitudinal direction in order to reach a functioning position in which the fabric sheet is at least partially extended, and which fabric sheet incorporates sliding elements along side edges thereof, two guide rails extending in the longitudinal direction to guide the sliding elements provided on the side edges of the fabric sheet, a frame, whereby the guide rails are fastened on the frame at a desired but variable transverse spacing from one another, a rigid guide tube for a drive chain guided within the guide tube, the guide tube running from the frame to one of the guide rails or to a feed-in piece that is in a fixed position in relation to the one guide rail, the guide tube having a frame end including a cross-section different from a cross-section of the guide tube adjacent the frame end, and a fixing device configured to fix the frame end of the guide tube in relation to the frame, the fixing device including a tube receptacle for the guide tube provided on the frame, the tube receptacle having a multiplicity of sections spaced apart from one another in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction, each section having a shape that matches the cross-section of the frame end of the guide tube, the frame end of the guide tube being engaged in a selected one of the sections to fix the frame end in relation to the frame in one of a plurality of discrete and predefined positions with respect to the transverse direction.