Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Cover
Patent
1990-03-06
1991-07-23
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Cover
296210, B60J 708
Patent
active
050337882
ABSTRACT:
A combined hard top and convertible top car comprises a car and a cap which has the configuration of the convertible top when the top is in up or elevated position and overlies the convertible top. The cap comprises of top wall, a rear wall, a rear wall and side walls. The cap includes front flanges along the front edge of the top wall which engage under the front edge of the convertible top, rear flanges along the rear wall which engage under the front edge of the car body adjacent the rear wall of the convertible top and side flanges along the side walls that engage the sides of the car body. The car top is applied by the successive steps of releasing the front edge of the convertible top from its point of attachment to the windshield of the car, setting the hard top in place, positioning the rear flanges below the front edge of the car body, engaging the front flanges under the front portion of the convertible top, reengaging and latching the front edge of the convertible top to the windshield thereby causing the rear flanges on the hard top to engage under a portion of the car body, and thereafter simultaneously pushing inwardly on the side walls of the hard top to engage the side flanges under side moldings of the car.
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Evans Automotive, Division of Evans Industries Inc.
Focarino Margaret A.
Pike Andrew C.
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