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1. A windscreen wiper device of the flat blade type comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes at least one groove, in which groove a longitudinal strip of the carrier element is disposed, wherein free ends of said wiper blade are connected to a respective connecting piece, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for an oscillating wiper arm, and wherein said wiper blade is provided with a spoiler at a side thereof facing away from said windscreen to be wiped, wherein at least one of said connecting pieces comprises an internal reinforcement rib connecting lateral sides of said connecting piece, wherein said spoiler is removed along a portion of the length of said wiper blade at a free end of said wiper blade facing said connecting piece, and wherein in mounted position said internal reinforcement rib abuts said spoiler and wherein said connection of each of said connecting pieces to said free ends of said wiper blade is independent of any connection between said connecting pieces and said carrier element, such that there is no direct connection between said connecting pieces and said carrier element that would serve to secure the connecting pieces against removal from said wiper element, but rather a direction connection between said connecting pieces and said wiper blade. |