Patent ID: 6951043

Claim:
A windscreen wiper ( 10 ) for a windscreen comprising a unitary elongate curved beam ( 12 ) with a top side facing away from the windscreen and a bottom side facing toward the windscreen, and a rubber blade ( 14 ) mounted to the beam ( 12 ) such that a top side of the rubber blade ( 14 ) is in planar abutment against the bottom side of the beam ( 12 ), the beam ( 12 ) having a protective end formation ( 16 ) at at least one of its tips ( 18 ), characterised therein that the curved beam ( 12 ) has a varying thickness and that the end formation ( 16 ) comprises a deformed end portion of the beam ( 12 ), which projects beyond and is spaced from an end portion of the rubber blade ( 14 ) to define a gap between the end portion of the rubber blade and the deformed end portion wherein an axis extending perpendicularly from the end portion of the rubber blade passes through the gap and the deformed end portion.