Mounting bracket assembly for a sunshade and method of installin

Details Mounting bracket assembly for a sunshade and method of installin Mounting bracket assembly for a sunshade and method of installin

1996-09-19

1999-01-12

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Glare screen or visor

296 9713, B60J 302

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058577289

ABSTRACT:
A sunshade mounting bracket assembly for mounting a sunshade to a vehicle without the use of tools or fasteners. The bracket assembly includes an outer bracket, an inner bracket, and an elbow to which the sunshade is attached. The outer bracket is mountable to an apertured panel such as the sheet metal interior roof of the vehicle. The inner bracket includes resilient locking prongs which define an interior cavity into which the elbow is inserted. The resilient locking prongs are structured to be insertable into an opening in the outer bracket. After their insertion into the outer bracket, the prongs engage the outer bracket when the inner bracket is axially rotated relative to the outer bracket from a first rotational orientation to a second rotational orientation for use. During their engagement with the outer bracket, the prongs are compressed radially inward and drawn axially into the outer bracket. The inner and outer brackets are secured against relative rotation when in the second rotational orientation by non-flexing locking ramps disposed on a one of the brackets which interfit with corresponding locking recesses located on the other bracket. The locking blocks are drawn into the locking recesses due to the camming action of the prongs. A method of installing the bracket assembly to a vehicle is also disclosed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3017217 (1962-01-01), Keating
patent: 4756570 (1988-07-01), Cooper

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