Gate glass opening and closing unit in tailgate

Details Gate glass opening and closing unit in tailgate Gate glass opening and closing unit in tailgate

1999-11-17

2001-05-22

Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Door or window with specified vehicle feature

C296S050000, C296S076000, C296S056000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06234564

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a tailgate of a van, and more particularly to a gate glass opening and closing unit in a tailgate for opening up and closing down only the gate glass mounted at a tailgate of a van type vehicle.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Vans are manufactured by various motor companies for loading small stuffs and simultaneously for carrying passengers apart from a passenger car for carrying passengers as main purpose.
At this time, loading and unloading of stuffs are usually done through tailgate mounted at the rear end of the van.
FIG. 1
is a perspective view for illustrating a rear end of a van type vehicle and
FIG. 2
is a sectional view of tailgate, where reference numeral
1
in
FIG. 1
is the tailgate of the van. Now, operational method of the tailgate will be described with reference to FIG.
2
.
The tailgate
1
is mounted thereunder with a locking device
2
for opening and closing the tailgate
1
. The locking device
2
is generally used for any vehicle, such that construction and operation thereof will be omitted in their details.
When the locking device
2
is manipulated to release a closed state (a) of the tailgate
1
, a locking device at the body of a vehicle is released to push up the tailgate
1
according to a resilient body such as spring mounted on the body. The tailgate
1
is rotated around a hinge
3
connecting an upper part of the body to the tailgate
1
by the action of the resilient body to allow the tailgate
1
to be opened in a state (b).
The van mounted with the tailgate operating as mentioned above should secure a space as long as the length of the tailgate when the tailgate is opened or closed for loading or unloading freight. Consequently, there is a problem in loading or unloading merchandise in a city where parking lot is difficult in obtainment. Furthermore, there is another problem in that the tailgate should be opened to its full extent even when a small stuff is loaded or unloaded.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is disclosed to solve the aforementioned problems and it is an object of the present invention to provide a gate glass opening and closing unit in tailgate adapted to open up or close down a gate glass at the tailgate according to manipulation of a driver or a passenger.
In accordance with the object of the present invention, there is provided a gate glass opening and closing unit in tailgate mounted at a rear end of a van-type vehicle, the unit comprising:
a glass hinge connecting a gate glass to the tailgate;
a glass locking device for maintaining a locked state of the gate glass; and
a glass spring for pushing up the gate glass when the locked state of the gate glass is released.


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