Patent ID: 7290825

Claim:
A device adapted to facilitate the inserting of objects under a folded roof stored in a rear boot of a motor vehicle, the vehicle comprising a body, a passenger compartment, a hood adapted to move between a closed position closing the rear boot and an open position opening said boot, the roof being movable between a deployed position in which it covers the passenger compartment, and a folded, stored position in which the roof is stored into the boot, the roof comprising a rear roof element and at least one additional roof element-which is located in front of the rear roof element when the roof is in the deployed position, and above the rear roof element when the roof is in the folded, stored position, the rear roof element comprising a finger bar adapted to slide along a guiding rail which is fixed to the body of the vehicle and which comprises a storage section used to guide the roof between its deployed position and the folded, stored position, and a raising section extending along the storage section and adapted to guide the folded roof between its folded, stored position and a folded, raised position in which, the hood of the rear boot being in the open position, the folded roof at least partially projects out of the boot, the device comprising a raising device mounted in a movable manner between a low position and a high position, and adapted to guide the finger bar along the raising section, wherein a securing means is fitted to the raising device in a movable manner between an open position and a closed position in which the securing means is adapted to support and to immobilize said at least one additional roof element with respect to the rear roof element, when the roof is moved between its folded, stored position and its folded, raised position.