Patent ID: 6736443
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
A cover arrangement for a storage compartment of a vehicle body with a removable vehicle roof, said cover arrangement including a storage compartment cover movable between a cover position, in which said storage compartment is covered and a clearing position in which access to said storage compartment is cleared, said storage compartment cover including a center part and two side parts, a center part operating mechanism supporting said center part on said vehicle body and actuating mechanisms for supporting said side parts on said vehicle body, whereby said side parts are supported on said vehicle body in a plane with, and at opposite sides of, said center part when said storage compartment is covered by said storage compartment cover, but are movable to said clearing position, said center part operating mechanism and said side part actuating mechanism being inter-linked by connecting links such that movement of said center part by its operating mechanism initiates movement of said actuating mechanisms of said side parts.