Patent ID: 6684449
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
A wiper blade (10) for cleaning windows (22), especially of motor vehicles, having an elongated, rubber-elastic wiper strip (20), which can be pressed against the window and which is held by a multi-member support bracket system (12) that has a main bracket (14), and the main bracket, located in the middle portion of the support bracket system, is provided with a bolt (26), oriented transversely to the length of the wiper blade, for pivotable connection to a wiper arm (28) that is driven to swing and is urged toward the window, resulting in one wiper blade half near the swing axis and one wiper blade half remote from the swing axis, and the wiper blade is provided with spring means, which when under tension, with the wiper blade pressed against the window, additionally urge its half remote from the swing axis toward the window, characterized in that the spring means are embodied as a leg spring (60), one leg (64) of which is braced directly or indirectly on the pivot bolt (26) and the other leg (66) of which is fixed to the half of the main bracket (14) near the swing axis.