Patent ID: 7419200

Claim:
A retractable parcel shelf system for a convertible vehicle comprising a rigid roof that folds in a storage space of the vehicle, which vehicle has a longitudinal axis, a front and a rear, a chassis and a passenger compartment, the system comprising: a central panel and two lateral panels located on either side of the central panel, both said lateral panels being fixed to the central panel and being movable with respect thereto between a retracted position and a deployed position; means for pivoting the central panel about at least one axis transverse to said longitudinal axis from an operating position to a forward retracted position in the storage space, thus allowing to store the roof in a folded condition in the storage space or inversely to extract said roof from a stored position in the storage space into a closed position above the passenger compartment; means for moving the lateral panels with respect to the central panel; and stop means fixed to the central panel and moving with the central panel or with respect to the central panel towards one of the front and the rear of the vehicle, said stop means being embodied such that when the central panel pivots to the rear to move from the retracted position to the operating position whereas the roof is in the stored position, the stop means abut a complementary formation on the roof in the stored position, in order to control the deployment of the lateral panels in relation to the central panel.