Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Let-down type top
Patent
1992-09-08
1993-09-21
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Let-down type top
296116, 29614614, B60J 100
Patent
active
052462625
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a folding top for vehicles having a dimensionally stable rear window which, when the top is pushed back, can be folded down from an upright position of use into a stowed position displaced to the rear. Sliding control of the rear window during the stowing operation is provided via a strut of the top frame. The central region of the strut rests against the underneath of the top cover in front of the rear window when the top is closed and overlaps the rear window in its swung-back end position. A coupling device is provided for transmitting movement by means of which the rear window and the strut are connected to one another, in each case at a distance from their pivot axis. In order to make possible a rearward displacement of the rear window when stowing the folding top, largely independently of the lowering of the rear window relative to a material retaining profile, the coupling device includes tie members unstable under bending loads, which connect the rear window in the region of its front window edge to the central region of the strut. After a free movement the tie members are stable under tension only when a final phase of the rearward swinging movement of the strut is reached, after which the rear window participates in the rearward transverse advance of the central region and is moved positively into its pushed-back end position.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3994524 (1976-11-01), Lehmann
patent: 4573732 (1986-03-01), Muscat
patent: 4741571 (1988-05-01), Godette
patent: 4778215 (1988-10-01), Ramaciotti
Guckel Martin
Rottler Helmut
Schrader Jurgen
Mercedes-Benz AG
Song Robert R.
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