Patent ID: 6964091

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a wiper blade for a windshield wiper system of motor vehicles with a yoke system for guiding an elongate wiper strip including a lip mounted on a carrier via a web, the method comprising the steps of: installing the wiper strip with respect to the yoke system with the carrier extending through at least one claw of the yoke system, each claw having opposing bendable sidewalls, each sidewall having an intermediate portion and an outer end, the opposing bendable sidewalls defining a generally U-shaped channel therebetween and initially in an opened position with respect to one another during installation of the wiper strip; and bending only the outer ends of the opposing sidewalls of at least one claw inwardly in two directions toward a longitudinal axis of the elongate wiper strip to a closed position while maintaining the intermediate portions of the opposing sidewalls parallel to one another, where one of the two directions of bending movement is at an angle other than perpendicular with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongate wiper strip and the other of the two directions is at an angle other than parallel with respect to a base wall extending between the opposing sidewalls of the U-shaped channel in the yoke system.