Folding top with changeable tension in the cover

Details Folding top with changeable tension in the cover Folding top with changeable tension in the cover

2010-01-21

2011-12-13

Dayoan, Glenn (Department: 3612)

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

C296S107110

Reexamination Certificate

active

08075043

ABSTRACT:
A folding top having changeable cover tension includes a cover stretched over a frame which is movable to move the cover between closed and opened positions. A tension bow is swung by a landau bar between a tensioning position and a non-tensioning position. Part of the rear portion of the cover is held in a narrow groove in the tension bow. The tension bow applies tension to this part of the cover when tension bow is in either of the tensioning or non-tensioning positions. Another part of the rear portion of the cover can slide into and out of a wide groove of the tension bow. The tension bow applies tension to this part of the cover when the tension bow is in the tensioning position but does not apply tension to this part of the cover when the tension bow is in the non-tensioning position.

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