Vehicle roof with a series of plates

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1992-09-08

1994-08-09

Pedder, Dennis H.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Roof structure

296214, 296220, 296223, 296224, B60J 7047

Patent

active

053359615

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle roof for closing an aperture in a fixed roof surface comprising a series of strip-like plates. In closing the roof, the plates lie edge to edge to form a flat sheet. The plates are mounted on guide tracks in a roof frame fixed beneath the roof surface around the aperture. Each plate is carried on the guide tracks at two locations, and the plates can be moved rearwards and tilted. In the roof open position, the plates are pivoted upward and lie substantially parallel to one another. The pivoting takes place towards the rear of the aperture as each plate is completing its rearward movement. The plates remain engaged with both guide track locations at all times and this ensures the stability of the assembly. In each case, a drip molding is hinged at least on a part of the plates. The drip moldings are guided to slide along lengthwise guideways, and they take part only in the sliding movements of the respective plates, not their pivoting. The drip moldings lie under a lengthwise edge of the plates that extends crosswise to the direction of displacement in each position of the respective plate, and with pivoting of the plate remains below the lower of the lengthwise edges of the respective plate.

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patent: 4923244 (1990-05-01), Clenet
patent: 5052746 (1991-10-01), Reihl et al.

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