Patent ID: 7896057

Claim:
A rotatable roller blind assembly ( 18 ) for motor vehicle windows ( 5 ) comprising: a rotatable roller blind shaft ( 21 ) mountable adjacent one edge ( 7 ) of a motor vehicle window ( 5 ), a roller blind body ( 19 ) fixed at one edge to the wind-up shaft ( 21 ), a pull-out profile ( 15 ) fixed to a second edge of the roller blind body ( 19 ) opposite said one edge, a pair of guide rails ( 22 , 23 ) mountable adjacent opposite side edges ( 8 ) of the motor vehicle window ( 5 ) adjacent to which the roller blind shaft ( 21 ) is mountable for guiding movement of the pull-out profile ( 15 ) and the roller blind body ( 19 ) from the wind-up shaft ( 21 ) from a retracted position to an extended position overlying an adjacent motor vehicle window ( 5 ), said guide rails ( 22 , 23 ) extending at an acute angle to each other and being spaced apart a greater distance at a point adjacent the windup shaft ( 21 ) then at a location corresponding to the extended position of the pull-out profile, said pull-out profile ( 15 ) including a middle piece ( 28 ) of fixed length and two end pieces ( 29 , 31 ) which are guided for movement in said guide rails ( 22 , 23 ) and are disposed for relative movement within opposite ends of the middle piece ( 28 ), said edge of the roller blind body ( 19 ) fixed to said pull-out profile ( 15 ) having a transverse width measured along and parallel to the pull-out profile ( 15 ) that is greater than the lateral spacing between the guide rails at the location corresponding to the extended position of the pull-out profile, said middle piece having a length less than the spacing between said guide rails at the location corresponding to the extended position of the pull rod, said pull-out profile middle piece having bendable members fixedly thereto in outwardly extending relation from opposite ends of the middle piece, said second edge of said roller blind body being fixed to said pull-out profile middle piece and bendable outwardly extending members, said outwardly extending bendable members being rigid with respect to forces exerted in the plane of the roller blind body in the direction of movement of said pull-out profile between said extended and retracted positions and are bendable from an extended position relative to the middle piece in response to forces exerted perpendicular to the plane of the roller blind body for reducing the transverse width of the roller blind body in conformity with a reduced spacing of the guide rails as an incident to movement of the pull out profile and roller blind body to said extended position.