Patent ID: 8042595
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
1. An awning case assembly comprising: a housing adapted to house a winding tube with a canvas wound thereon, said housing having a longitudinal opening allowing the passage of said canvas; and a load bar having a longitudinal fixing configuration to which a front edge of said canvas is fixed, said load bar being hingedly connected to distal ends of foldable arms having proximal ends hingedly connected to the housing, the load bar being adapted to be coupled to the housing in a folded awning situation, closing said longitudinal opening and covering said foldable arms, the load bar comprising: a first longitudinal coupling configuration adjacent to said longitudinal fixing configuration and adapted to be coupled to a first longitudinal coupling edge of the housing, and a second longitudinal coupling configuration arranged at a distance from said first coupling configuration and adapted to be coupled to a second longitudinal coupling edge of the housing, said first and second coupling configurations and said first and second coupling edges being arranged such that during a closing operation of the case by winding the canvas, the second coupling configuration of the load bar is first coupled to the second coupling edge of the housing, to form a fulcrum line about which the load bar can rotate under the action of a pulling force exerted by the canvas on the fixing configuration until the first coupling configuration is coupled to the first coupling edge of the housing, wherein, the housing comprises an outer wall surrounding the winding tube and the canvas at the upper, lower and rear sides, and a partition wall surrounding the winding tube and the canvas at the front side except in the area of the longitudinal opening, said partition wall being placed between the canvas wound on the winding tube and the foldable arms in the folded awning situation; and the first coupling edge of the housing is formed at a free upper edge of said partition wall close to an upper front edge of said outer wall and separated therefrom by said longitudinal opening, and the second coupling edge of the housing is formed at a lower front edge of said outer wall.