Ventilation – Vehicle – Having inlet airway
Patent
1995-06-09
1997-12-02
Joyce, Harold
Ventilation
Vehicle
Having inlet airway
296192, 411182, B60H 128
Patent
active
056929536
ABSTRACT:
An automotive vehicle cowl cover assembly has a body cowl surface made of a material with a first coefficient of thermal expansion and an elongated ventilation screen covering the air intake opening with ventilation slots therein made from a material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion. The body cowl surface has a plurality of laterally spaced, rectangularly shaped body apertures and the screen has a plurality of circular mounting apertures formed therethrough registerable with the plurality of body mounting apertures. A plurality of fasteners engage with the ventilation screen to the body cowl surface, each of the fasteners including a rectangularly shaped nut member fitted in one of the plurality of body apertures and a toothed push-pin insertable through one of the plurality of apertures in axially fast relationship with the nut member to clampingly engaging the ventilation screen against the body cowl surface, the push-pin laterally slidingly received in the first slot and received in axially locking relationship with the ribs of the second slot such that the push-pin slides laterally with respect to the nut member to compensate for lateral relative movement between the ventilation screen and the body cowl surface in response to changes in temperature therearound.
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Bell Mary T.
Clough Melvyn J.
Lewis Willard R.
Ford Global Technologies Inc.
Joyce Harold
Kelley, Esq. David B.
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