Frame for a vehicle sun roof

Details Frame for a vehicle sun roof Frame for a vehicle sun roof

1985-10-15

1987-06-16

Pate, III, William F.

Static structures (e.g., buildings)

Tensioned or flexed sheet facing

296216, 296223, E04C 310

Patent

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046727833

ABSTRACT:
A frame surround for an aperture in a panel e.g. for a vehicle sunroof, capable of easy and rapid assembly, has a first (outer) component 1 surrounding the outer margin of, and entering the aperture to present a peripheral outwardly open groove for accommodating a second (inner) component 2. The second component is surrounded by a cable 3 tightenable by mechanism 4, and is formed as a number of polymer parts 5a, 5b, 5c to give a structure distortable inwardly as the cable is tightened to enter the outer component groove and clamp the margin of the panel around the aperture between the two components. The groove-entering clamping portions of component 2 are toothed to minimize friction. The cable 3 runs in a restraining groove in the outer face of component 2. The restraining groove does not lie in one plane, whereby tightening the cable tends to minimize cable length and thus distorts the structure by a predetermined amount, to correspond to panel curvature.

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