Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1986-09-25
1987-09-29
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296218, 296220, B60J 7047, B60J 711
Patent
active
046965114
ABSTRACT:
An opening roof arrangement for a motor vehicle roof which consists of a carrier structure in the form of a frame which is capable of being mounted in an opening in the vehicle roof and retained on the edge thereof. A panel is mounted to a support assembly pivotally mounted on the frame about a pivot axis which is parallel to and in the vicinity of the front edge of the frame. An operating and locking member is mounted to the support assembly and co-operates with a rear edge of the frame to cause the support assembly to pivot from a first position in which it extends in a horizontal plane of the frame, the panel forming a closure system for the opening by resting on a seal provided on the inside edge of the frame, to a second position in which the support assembly is inclined with respect to the horizontal plane of the frame about the pivot axis. The support assembly is formed by a pair of parallel telescopic struts which are substantially perpendicular to the pivot axis, each strut having a slideway member which is pivotally mounted at one end thereof about the axis and a slider mounted slidably on the slideway member. The panel is connected to each of the struts by a fixing member having a first lug mounted slidably in the slideway member and a second lug mounted slidably in the slider.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1826871 (1931-10-01), Ford
patent: 3589778 (1971-06-01), Olson
patent: 4005900 (1977-02-01), Rauthmann
patent: 4407541 (1983-10-01), Boots
Laville Bernard
Prouteau Philippe
Etablissements Farnier & Penin
Ferguson Jr. Gerald J.
Hoffman Michael P.
Malamud Ronni S.
Pedder Dennis H.
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