The present invention relates to a separating or holding net. More particularly this invention concerns such a net used with an upright surface to form a stowage pocket, for instance on a vehicle seat back.
Such a holding and/or separating net has a net mesh part and an elastic edge member extending along an opening edge of the net mesh part between fixation formations. Such holding and/or separating nets are widely used. The elastic edge member of such holding and/or separating nets is frequently or usually made of a braided elastic cord whose ends are held in the fixation formations, and often transition parts are required for this purpose.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an improved separating or holding net.
Another object is the provision of such an improved separating or holding net that overcomes the above-given disadvantages, in particular that can be produced with low technical design complexity.
This object is attained according to the invention in that the elastic edge member is an elongated elastic woven fabric strip that at the attachment sections thereof associated with the fixation formations has respective openings for engagement with the respective fixation formation. According to the invention, all transition parts between those fixation formations to which the elastic edge member is attached may be dispensed with since an engagement can be directly established between the elastic edge member and the fixation formations, in the customary manner in which they are designed, because of the openings that are provided on the attachment sections of the elastic edge member.
So as to be able to produce elastic edge members in a wide variety of requirement profiles in the appropriate length using a substantially continuously producible elastic edge member that is designed as a woven fabric strip, without any complex design measures whatsoever, it is advantageous for the woven fabric strip forming the elastic edge member to comprise an alternating sequence of a plurality of openings and a plurality of closed strip sections. An elastic edge member having the desired length can then be created by simply severing the woven fabric strip on a closed strip section.
According to an advantageous refinement, the woven fabric strip of the elastic edge member is designed as a two-layer double woven fabric strip at whose closed strip sections the two woven fabric strips forming the same are joined to each other, and at whose strip sections provided with openings, the two woven fabric strips of the double woven fabric strip are not joined to each other.
Alternatively, the woven fabric strip can also be designed to have three or more layers, the woven fabric strips being joined to each other on the closed strip sections and not joined at the strip sections provided with openings.
Embodiments of the separating or holding net according to the invention in which two or more elastic edge members designed as elongated elastic woven fabric strips, each being disposed on an edge of the net mesh part associated therewith, are also possible, of course.
The above and other objects, features, and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description, reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which:
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Instead of the holding net 1, the invention described below can also be a separating net used to separate the luggage compartment from the remaining passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, for example.
The holding net 1 according to the invention shown in
In the illustrated embodiment of the holding net 1 according to the invention shown in
The elastic edge member 5 is joined at its two ends to a comparatively stiff edge part 6 of the holding net 1, the member being approximately U-shaped in the shown illustrated embodiment. This stiff edge part 6 passes through the edge loops or rhombi of the net mesh part 2 to stretch it.
Attachment clips 7 that secure the comparatively stiff edge part 6 and thus the holding net 1 to the unillustrated mounting surface are provided on the comparatively stiff edge part 6.
At its two ends, the elastic edge member 5 disposed on the upper edge 8 in the shown illustrated embodiment is engaged in two fixation formations or eyes 9 and 10 formed at the ends of the comparatively stiff edge part 6 to stretch the net mesh part 2 of the holding net 1 at the edges of the net mesh part 2 on which the elastic edge member 5 is not provided. Here, the fixation formations 9, 10 of the comparatively stiff edge part 6 are formed by simple bent sections of this comparatively stiff edge part 6 that itself is typically made of wire.
The elastic edge member 5 shown in general in a first embodiment in
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