Patent ID: 7207613

Claim:
Luggage area protection device for a motor vehicle with at least one flexible flat article movably positioned between a compactly deposited rest position and an extracted functioning position and on whose front end region at the front in the extraction direction is provided a dimensionally stable extraction part, which extends transversely to the extraction direction of the flat article and with said extraction part are associated guidance means, which move the extraction part between the extracted functioning position and the rest position of the flat article, and having securing means locking the extraction part in the extracted functioning position of the flat article, wherein the securing means, considered in the extraction direction of the flat article, are positioned at least approximately at the same height or behind an area portion defining the rest position of the extraction part, wherein as guidance means are provided vertical displacement means which move the extraction part within the luggage area between a lower rest position and an upper extraction position in which the extraction part is positioned in a roof region of the luggage area, wherein the vertical displacement means have mechanical force transmission means, which transform a driving movement at right angles to an extraction direction of the flat article into an extraction movement of the extraction part in the extraction direction.