Collapsible hard top for a convertible motor vehicle

Details Collapsible hard top for a convertible motor vehicle Collapsible hard top for a convertible motor vehicle

1999-03-17

2000-11-07

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

29610707, 29610708, B60J 714

Patent

active

061425559

ABSTRACT:
A collapsible hard top for convertible motor vehicle and including a rigid top panel displaceable between a closed position in which it overlaps an entire passenger compartment of the vehicle, and an open rearward position, and a rear window a position of which is independent of a position of the hard top and which pivots between an upright position, in which the rear window extends upward of motor vehicle body contour, and lowered position in which the rear window projects in to the passenger compartment, with a distance between a back side of rear posts of the top panel and a B-pillar of the vehicle body corresponding at least to a height of the hard top.

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patent: 5967591 (1999-10-01), Muehlhausen
"Steel Top Disappears" Automotive Industries, 1953, vol. 108, No. 10, p. 17 .

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