Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1992-11-19
1993-12-07
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296219, B62D 2506
Patent
active
052677745
ABSTRACT:
A foldable and removable top for a passenger vehicle. The top includes an overhead cover member and side curtains. The overhead cover member has a support arrangement including front and rear headers, transverse bow members, and side rails. The flexible and foldable fabric of the cover member is secured at its end portions to the front and rear headers and the bow members are secured across the middle section of the fabric between the side rails. One end of each side rail is pivotally mounted to the rear header and the other, free end is releasably securable to an end of the front header. When assembled, the side rails extend between the front and rear headers to hold them in a spaced-apart, extended position with the fabric of the cover member being drawn taut therebetween. The side curtains of the top are releasably securable to the overhead cover member and are also releasably securable to the vehicle itself by a unique hook and catch arrangement.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3494659 (1970-02-01), Trenkler
patent: 4801173 (1989-01-01), Trenkler
patent: 5009465 (1991-04-01), Induni
patent: 5018783 (1991-05-01), Chamings et al.
Atabak Jack H.
Bell Larry W.
Emerling Sandy J.
Essig Richard C.
Garner Rodger P.
Bestop, Inc.
Carson W. Scott
Chrysler Corporation
Song Robert R.
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