Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1992-01-21
1994-05-10
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296224, B60J 712, B60J 7185
Patent
active
053102410
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a flexible top vehicle with its flexible top so disposed as to open or close both the forward portion and the rearward portion of a roof opening separately. The flexible top is disposed at the roof opening portion and it has a forward slider disposed at its forward end portion and a rearward slider disposed at its rearward end portion, thereby capable of opening the forward and/or rearward portion of the roof opening of the roof by folding or extending the flexible top from or to both end portions thereof. The forward slider is engaged with a forward stopper mounted on a member of the vehicle body, thereby closing the forward portion of the roof opening with the forward end portion of the flexible top, and vice versa. When the flexible top is extended to its maximum length and closes the entire length of the roof opening, the distance between the forward and rearward sliders is set to be smaller than the distance between the forward and rearward stoppers. This acts to maintain the flexible top at its maximum extended length, in which the flexible top is under forward and backward tension, thus keeping the flexible top from extending or otherwise loosely hanging downward due to a rise in temperature or to other causes.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2025874 (1935-12-01), Lange
patent: 2103372 (1937-12-01), Lange
patent: 4830428 (1989-05-01), Masuda et al.
patent: 5080429 (1992-01-01), Omoto et al.
Matsumoto Kenji
Omoto Seiichi
Mazda Motor Corporation
Pedder Dennis H.
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