Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Let-down type top
Patent
1995-03-24
1996-06-18
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Let-down type top
296208, 296124, B60R 1301
Patent
active
055270816
ABSTRACT:
A split-installation drainage arrangement for a convertible vehicle topwell assembly adapted for storage of the top in a downwardly folded position. The plastic shell-like topwell includes a floor molded with right and left side water collecting areas each terminating in a drainage recess. A sub-assembly, adapted for transporting water from an associated recess to the exterior of the vehicle, includes a one-piece discharge fitting and a sealing grommet interconnected by a flexible drain tube. The tube has one end attached to an exit spout of the fitting and its other end adapted for insertion in a body panel aperture by means of a snap-in sealing grommet. The sub-assemblies are readily installed in the vehicle body prior to the installation of the topwell. Each fitting has a collar adapted for snap-in mounting in a body support panel oval-shaped aperture. As a result, the frusto-conical shaped drainage recess exterior male taper surface is located in self-aligned spaced relationship with the interior female taper surface of the subjacent frusto-conical shaped fitting obviating assembly line inter-connections between the floor recess and the support panel fitting.
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Cottone Joseph
Pellerito Paul C.
Querro Randall C.
Rausch Jeffrey S.
Chrysler Corporation
Pape Joseph D.
Pasternak Thomas G.
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