Folding top for motor vehicles

Details Folding top for motor vehicles Folding top for motor vehicles

1993-05-21

1994-08-16

Pedder, Dennis H.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

296116, 296118, B60J 712

Patent

active

053380851

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a folding top for motor vehicles, having a top frame which comprises lateral top supports and a rear hoop. The top has a storage position of the top in an associated top box, into which it can be lowered by folding back the upright top supports about a main axis. The top frame has an articulation, spaced relative to the main axis, of the lateral legs of the rear hoop on the frame members which are jointly moved via the top supports, whereby the rear hoop is displaced backwards relative to the main axis during the lowering process, and having a rearward widening of the top box behind the top box aperture into which the rear hoop projects when the top is lowered. In order that incorrect operation during manual lowering of the top should be reliably prevented, the top supports of the top are retained, when the rear hoop is upright, via locking devices which prevent their folding-back movement and whose locking action can be cancelled by an advance rearward pivoting movement of the rear hoop, the pivot angle of the advance being such that, when the top supports are subsequently folded back, contact-free dipping of the rear hoop through the top box aperture is guaranteed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4936626 (1990-06-01), Gmeiner et al.

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