Method for attaching guide means to a flexible sheet-like structure and preparatory device therefor

US8146226B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BOS GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Jakobi · Schlotheim, DE
• Guenter Renz · Ditzingen, DE
• Wolfgang Stark · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Karl Winter · Obertshausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 21, 2008
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2012
• Expiry date: Feb 2, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49867
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for attaching guide means (106) to a flexible sheet (100), preferably as part of a shading system for a vehicle, and to a device provided therefor. Holding regions (102a, 102b), spaced apart from one another in a Y-direction, of a flexible sheet (100) extending in an X-direction and a Y-direction are spaced apart from one another by being acted upon with a predetermined pretensioning force (Fv) acting in the Y-direction, with the result that a pretension state is achieved. Subsequently, in a further processing state which corresponds to the pretension state or to a pretension state relieved by the amount of a predetermined relief distance (S3) in the Y-direction with respect to the pretension state, guide means (106) extending parallel to one another in the X-direction and spaced apart from one another in the Y-direction are fastened to the sheet (100).