Patent ID: 8267292

Claim:
A load carrier for a vehicle roof, comprising: at least two load profiles, which in use extends along the vehicle roof, the load profiles each including a fixed first part, having a first half and a second half, and a movable second part movable relative to the first part in their longitudinal direction, the first part including an undercut groove which extends in the longitudinal direction of the first part and in which engages, in a longitudinally displaceable manner, at least one slideway that forms a sidewall of the second part and having a shape matching the undercut groove, wherein a track formed by the undercut groove includes a circular arc curve with a radius of curvature bent downwards from the arc, the movable second part is fitted between the first half and the second half of the fixed first part, end portions of the first part are integrally formed supports that fix the load carrier to the vehicle roof, such that an upper most surface of the first part is contiguous with an outer most surface of the supports, the two load profiles are positioned at a distance from each other with two fixing bars arranged between them to hold the two profiles at the distance, each fixing bar extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the load profiles and integrally formed at its opposite ends to the supports of the first parts of the two load profiles, and at a partially extended position of the movable second part, a portion of the vehicle roof is exposed between the first and second halves of the fixed first part.