Convertible top boot attaching arrangement

Details Convertible top boot attaching arrangement Convertible top boot attaching arrangement

1989-12-22

1991-03-12

Focarino, Margaret A.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Cover

B60J 720

Patent

active

049987666

ABSTRACT:
An improved fastening arrangement provides for easy and quick attachment of a convertible top boot to a vehicle body. A plurality of plastic J-section fastener strips each have a forwardly extending planar pad portion, an intermediate arcuate resilient web portion, and a rearwardly extending hook-shaped portion. The pad portion is adapted for flush mounting to the underside of a boot backing panel by a plurality of rivets. The hook-shaped portion free edge is formed with an enlarged locking bead coextensive therewith. A retainer member, mounted on the body upper deck aft of the storage well, provides a transversely extending upwardly opening lead-in gap and subjacent enlarged furrow. The bead is adapted for releasable engagement in a self-seeking manner in undercut fittable retainer groove of the furrow upon snap-action passage through the lead-in gap that is hidden from view by the overlying boot.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2664309 (1953-12-01), Kavalar
patent: 3401977 (1968-09-01), Schamel
patent: 4669774 (1987-06-01), Crain
patent: 4679844 (1987-07-01), Wolford et al.
patent: 4687247 (1987-08-01), Muscat
patent: 4783113 (1988-11-01), Padlo

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