Abstract: A cargo-space cover for a motor vehicle has a fitting permanently mounted in the motor vehicle and a housing having an end cap complementarily fittable in a seat of the fitting. A shaft rotatable in the housing carries a cover sheet windable by a drive motor in the housing on the shaft. A pair of contacts fixed and exposed in the seat and connectable to power circuitry are engageable with a complementary pair of contacts fixed on and exposed at the end cap and positioned so as to engage the respective seat contacts when the end cap is fitted to the seat to connect the motor via the two pairs of contacts to the power circuitry. A latch retains the end cap in the seat with the end-cap contacts in solid contact with the seat contacts.

Abstract: A motor-vehicle cargo-space cover has two rails flanking the space, fixed in the motor vehicle, and defining a pair of slots. A housing releasably mounted in the vehicle and extending transversely of the rails between rear ends if the slots holds a rotatable shaft around which is wound a flexible cover sheet having a front edge provided with a stiffening bar having outer ends carrying respective slides displaceable along the respective slots and into the housing. Respective stiff tapes connected to the slides extend rearward therefrom into the housing to a drive in the housing that pays the tapes out and thereby pushes the slides forward out of the housing into the slots to deploy the sheet over the space and pulls the stiff tapes back into the housing and thereby pulls the slides back and into the housing to retract the sheet from above the space.

Abstract: A cargo-space cover for a motor vehicle has a fitting permanently mounted in the motor vehicle and a housing having an end cap complementarily fittable in a seat of the fitting. A shaft rotatable in the housing carries a cover sheet windable by a drive motor in the housing on the shaft. A pair of contacts fixed and exposed in the seat and connectable to power circuitry are engageable with a complementary pair of contacts fixed on and exposed at the end cap and positioned so as to engage the respective seat contacts when the end cap is fitted to the seat to connect the motor via the two pairs of contacts to the power circuitry. A latch retains the end cap in the seat with the end-cap contacts in solid contact with the seat contacts.

Abstract: A motor-vehicle cargo-space cover has two rails flanking the space, fixed in the motor vehicle, and defining a pair of slots. A housing releasably mounted in the vehicle and extending transversely of the rails between rear ends if the slots holds a rotatable shaft around which is wound a flexible cover sheet having a front edge provided with a stiffening bar having outer ends carrying respective slides displaceable along the respective slots and into the housing. Respective stiff tapes connected to the slides extend rearward therefrom into the housing to a drive in the housing that pays the tapes out and thereby pushes the slides forward out of the housing into the slots to deploy the sheet over the space and pulls the stiff tapes back into the housing and thereby pulls the slides back and into the housing to retract the sheet from above the space.