Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1992-06-19
1993-07-13
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296901, 403381, 52595, 293121, B62D 2706
Patent
active
052266958
ABSTRACT:
A first plastic body panel has an appearance panel with an appearance surface and an adjoining edge. The body panel has a tongue projecting from the adjoining edge generally parallel and recessed from the appearance surface. The tongue has an appearance side and a hidden side with the hidden side having a plurality of ribs. A second plastic body panel has an appearance panel with an appearance surface and an adjoining edge. The second plastic body panel has an inboard "L" shaped flange spaced and generally parallel to the appearance panel at the adjoining edge. The appearance panel and the flange of the second body panel define a slot at the adjoining edge for receiving the tongue of the first plastic body panel for slideably connecting the panels with the ribs of the tongue engaging the inboard "L" shaped flange. The appearance surfaces are coplanar at the adjoining edges whereby the panels can move relative to each other while maintaining the appearance surfaces coplanar at the adjoining edges.
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Flint Gerald A.
Zentner Edward
Bruttomesso, Jr. Raymond I.
General Motors Corporation
Song Robert R.
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