Abstract: A profiled seal for a lowerable vehicle window pane. The seal includes a holding flank which is engaged by a fastening clamp. An upper sealing lip, which self biases to press outward against the window pane, and a lower sealing lip are attached to the holding flank. A cover lip is attached to the upper end of the upper sealing lip. The free end of the cover lip extends from the upper sealing lip to above the holding flank and passes into a groove which is formed between the top of the holding flank and a separate inner cover strip which extends above and is spaced above the holding flank. A pull band extends between the upper end of the upper sealing lip and the upper end of the holding flank and is developed integrally with the profiled seal. In its stretched condition, the pull band is directed at an acute angle to the cover lip. The pull band prevents the free end of the cover lip from slipping out of the groove when the window pane is lowered completely below the upper sealing lip.

Abstract: A profiled sealing strip for use on an automotive vehicle, or the like. Inside an elastomeric material strip is defined a reinforcement insert comprising two U-shaped metal bands which are oriented such that their openings are about 90.degree. apart. The bands are attached to each other by a bonding agent along selected attachment regions. Each of the bands has an elongate web and has sides off the web which are separated into rungs arrayed alongside each other and the rungs extend transversely to the direction of extension of the profiled sealing strip. An end region of one leg of each metal band is bent off toward the end region of the other band to define an open box region in the profiled strip for bend strength.

Abstract: A sun visor for motor vehicles has a flat sun visor body of foam material which has a recess on one main surface to receive a trough which holds a mirror cassette. A frame, in which the trough is clipped is inserted into the recess. The frame has claws which can be swung to be anchored in the foam body at the recess sidewalls. A cover over the body is also held in the recess by the installed frame.

Abstract: An ashtray or the like storage container, which is intended particularly for automotive vehicles, includes a housing with a recess in it and a housing insert which is pivotable into and out of the housing recess. A detent arrangement for holding the housing insert in the closed position in the housing recess includes the housing insert having a cardioid shape control curve guide groove defined on it. A lever articulatedly attached in the side wall of the housing recess includes a pin which sits in the guide groove and rides along the upper and lower parts of the groove as the housing insert is moved into and out of the housing recess. The front side of the groove has a depression in which the pin on the lever is seated to prevent the housing insert from opening out of the housing recess. The housing insert is released from the recess when the front side of the insert is pressed in, which pivots the articulated lever and the pin to move the pin into the first part of the guide groove.

Abstract: A method is described for producing colored surfaces on parts of aluminum or aluminum alloy which is characterized by the following process steps:1. The parts are pre-treated by degreasing or cleaning,2. The parts are electrolytically anodically/alkalinely brightened,3. The parts are electrolytically anodized with the use of direct current,4. The parts are electrolytically and/or organically colored, and5. The oxide layer on the parts is compacted.

Abstract: A sun visor with a reversible mirror. The visor body has a recess in a wide side of the sun visor body. A trough-shaped housing is arranged in the recess. A reversibly mounted mirror is received in the housing. A yoke comprising two arms and a cross arm is mounted for swinging around the cross arm and lies flat in the housing closely adjacent to three adjoining housing walls. The yoke is swingable away from the housing bottom against the restoring force of a spring means acting on the yoke arms. The mirror is mounted for turning between the arms of the yoke.

Abstract: A container, like an ashtray, particularly for use in a vehicle. A housing with an open side and a drawer like insert slidably guided for movement into and out of the housing. A plurality of guide members fastened to each of the opposite sidewalls of the housing past which the insert is moved. Each guide member includes a plate at the housing sidewall and outward projections on the plate, which are received in a respective guide groove defined on the respective opposite sidewall of the insert. Each projection includes a forwardly bent portion and a curved fillet connection to the respective plate. The outward projections are integral with the plate of the guide member and of the same resilient material as and is resiliently movable both generally parallel to the plane of the plate of the guide member and also perpendicular to that plate. The guide projections are engaged with vertical and horizontal tension in the guide grooves.

Abstract: A sun visor includes a sun visor body. A swivel mounting block and an outer support block, which respectively receive a swivel arm from one end of the visor body and a support part from the other end of the visor body, are joined by and are one piece with a connecting member which bridges over at least a part of the sun visor body and is disposed above the upper longitudinal edge of the visor body. The connecting member is also in one piece with a housing for an electrical illuminating unit and has an illumination window.

Abstract: There is described a chemical method for the avoidance of a rainbow effect which is caused by the layer of oxide produced upon the brightening of parts of aluminum or aluminum alloys, in which the parts are degreased or cleaned in a first process step and then subjected to electrolytic-alkaline brightening in a second process step, the method being characterized by the fact that, after the brightening, the parts are subjected to a further treatment in which the parts are first of all washed in water and then exposed in a chromic-acid solution preferably containing about 50 grams per liter of CrO.sub.3 at about 98.degree. C. for about 3 minutes and finally washed again in a sodium hydrosulfite solution.

Abstract: A sun visor for automotive vehicles, including a sun visor body and a separate carrier body. The carrier body and sun visor body being attached to permit longitudinal translation of the visor body with respect to the carrier body while prohibiting rotation of the carrier body apart from the visor body around a swivel axis. Slide bearing rails between the carrier body and visor body permit the longitudinal translation. The arms of the U shape slide rails are cooperatingly shaped to define ball-receiving grooves which enable the translation of the visor body with respect to the carrier body. A sun visor swivel shaft is supported at one end of the carrier body. An outer support pin, supported at the opposite end of the carrier body, is also longitudinally movable with respect to the carrier body and is also received in a hole in the end of the outer support pedestal, which hole has a lateral radial opening.

Abstract: A brightening method for parts of aluminum or aluminum alloy is described which is characterized, in particular, by the fact that the parts are treated in an alkaline electrolyte, operated with direct current, preferably having the composition______________________________________ Na.sub.3 PO.sub.4 (trisodium phosphate) 120 g/l NA.sub.2 CO.sub.3 (disodium carbonate) 330 g/l AlPO.sub.4 (aluminum phosphate) 10 g/l beechwood extracts 5 ml/l ______________________________________at an operating temperature of about 70.degree.-80.degree. C.

Abstract: An anti-glare device for motor vehicles including two profiled strips extending parallel and each having a respective pin receiving generally dovetail shaped groove extending along its length. A plurality of slats extend between the profiled strips. Each slat includes a respective pin at each opposite end for reception in the profiled strip grooves and the pins being pivotable in the grooves for pivoting all of the slats to respective use and non-use positions. The pins at the end of the slats are shaped to the grooves in the profiled strips, with one pin being on one surface of the slat and the other pin being on the opposite surface of the slat and the grooves being correspondingly oriented. A spacer is positioned in the groove between adjacent pins and the pins are detented on the spacers particularly into the non-use position. A blocking element at the end of the first and last slats keeps them in the grooves.

Abstract: A window shade includes a winding shaft and a shade strip. The shaft cooperates with a support such that the shaft is axially displaced when the strip is pulled past a window or wound back onto the shaft.

Abstract: A sun visor body has at one end region of one of its longitudinal edges an outer-support pin which is surrounded by a sleeve and is detachably engageable in the mounting recess of an outer-support mount. The sleeve is comprised of two half-shells. Each shell has two longitudinal edges and each has a radially inwardly directed extension. The outer-support pin is provided with two diametrically opposite, axially extending grooves into which the extensions are snapped and held, secured against twisting and in non-losable fashion by engagement. The outer support pin may have an electrically conductive wire core. A rivet through the pin acts to electrically connect the core to the periphery of the pin where the rivet can connect to a contact in an outer support mount.

Abstract: A sun visor for a motor vehicle comprising a sun visor body developed as a cushioning body embedded in a covering formed from two precut sheets which are welded around the circumference to each other by high frequency welding. A stiffening reinforcement insert is disposed within the cushioning body. A swing mounting pin is formed on the reinforcing insert generally inward from the upper circumferential edge of the visor body. That pin has two diametrically opposite either axially extending flats or groove shaped depressions. The flat or depressions prevent a buildup of the weld beads produced upon the high frequency welding. There are at least two radially protruding, axially extending ribs defined on the mounting pin which penetrate into the covering material and prevent relative movement therebetween. The mounting shaft for the visor body extends into a mounting housing and the mounting shaft and the swing mounting pin are axially aligned.

Abstract: A method for producing a profiled strip and the resulting profiled strip, wherein the profiled strip comprises a flexurally elastic reinforcement insert deformed, for example, into a U-shape, covered by a covering of rubber, or the like which is preferably extruded over the insert. The insert is a metal strip which is stamp cut for defining a continuous web extending across the strip and for defining at least one plurality of rungs in the metal strip. The rungs extend away from the web and preferably are defined on both opposite sides of the web. The rungs are defined by a stamp cutting operation so that after the insert is smoothed following the stamp cutting, there is no spacing between neighboring edges of adjacent rungs.

Abstract: A drawer for being held in and removable from a housing, particularly an ashtray in a housing, and including an unlocking mechanism normally in engagement with a stop in the housing and unlockable to enable removal of the drawer from the housing. A slide supported outside and below the container is movable toward the rear of the container. The end of the slide is V-shaped, and the underside of one leg of the V engages an upright bolt for moving the bolt down as the slide is moved rearward, which moves the bolt out of position to abut the housing stop. A push element is engaged by the upper side of the slide for being pushed up to press a spring up inside a recess in the bolt as the slide is pushed in. The slide, bolt and push element having cooperating oblique surfaces for accomplishing the respective pushing. In one embodiment, a push button acts directly on the slide. In another embodiment, a push button acts on the bolt through an intermediate rocker, instead of a slide.

Abstract: A covering for use in a motor vehicle or the like which is supported on the instrument panel or otherwise in front of a passenger seat. A winding shaft carried on a support receives a blanket which is windable on the shaft and which can be drawn over the passenger on the seat by pulling it off the winding shaft. The blanket passes through the rectangular cross-section of a funnel shaped or tapering guide which folds the edges of the blanket for more compact storage on the winding shaft. A spring or electric motor turns the winding shaft in a direction to normally draw the blanket through the guide and onto the winding shaft.

Abstract: An emergency hammer for smashing panes of glass is disclosed. The hammer includes a handle and a hammer head on the handle. The hammer head has a point at one end and is connected to the handle at the opposite end. The hammer head may be integrally attached to the handle. The hammer head thus protrudes a substantial length from the handle in only one direction. A protective loop of a relatively rigid and dimensionally stable material is also on the handle and extends in the same direction for covering the hand of the person grasping the handle.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns various embodiments of a sun-visor for mounting at the front side window of an automotive vehicle. The sun-visor body is shifted up and down and may also be shifted laterally for covering the front side window of the vehicle, without swinging about a horizontal axis. Various mounting arrangements for the visor body are disclosed, including pivot links, pivotally attaching the visor body to the vehicle body; guide projections formed on one of the visor body and the vehicle body and a guide pathway for the guide projections being formed on the other; and tenons on the visor body which are received in respective guide tubes on the vehicle body. The guide pathway in the surface of the visor body for receiving a guide projection from the vehicle body, or vice-versa, may be obliquely inclined, arcuately curved or bent at an angle intermediate its length for defining both up and down and/or lateral motion of the visor body for covering the front side window.