Patent ID: 6938666

Claim:
A screening arrangement for a roof window adapted to be built into a roof surface and having a frame structure and a sash structure extending in parallel to the roof surface, each with top and bottom members and two mutually parallel side members, the screening arrangement comprising a screening body having a first end, a second end and two side edges, a bottom bar connected with said first end of the screening body and adapted to extend substantially parallel to said top and bottom members of the frame structure or the sash structure, a top casing adapted to extend along the top member of the frame structure or the sash structure and having, at each end, an end wall that is adapted to be substantially parallel to said side members of the frame and sash structures, reception means situated in said top casing and connected with said second end of the screening body, and side guide rails adapted to be mounted substantially parallel with said side members of the frame structure or the sash structure for accommodation and guidance of ends of the bottom bar and said side edges of the screening body, the screening body being movable between a first end position in which the screening body occupies a stored position on or at said reception means in the top casing, and a second active screening position, in which the screening body extends in a screening plane, the screening arrangement including at least one rotatable connection situated between said end walls of the top casing, adapted to connect the screening arrangement to the window at a position between said end walls of the top casing, and adapted to move at least said side guide rails of the screening arrangement with the screening body accommodated therein between said screening plane and a plane forming an angle with the roof surface, about a hinge axis substantially parallel to said top and bottom members of the frame structure or the sash structure, characterized in that said reception means is substantially in said screening plane and that the top casing has a form adapted to follow the form of top members of the frame structure and the sash structure.