Hoop arrangement for foldable tops of automotive vehicles

Details Hoop arrangement for foldable tops of automotive vehicles Hoop arrangement for foldable tops of automotive vehicles

1979-06-11

1981-04-07

Love, John J.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

296116, B60J 712

Patent

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042601886

ABSTRACT:
A hoop arrangement for foldable tops of automotive vehicles which includes a bow-shaped main hoop connected to the top and a bow-shaped corner hoop provided at the top at a spacing from the main hoop for tightening the closed top at an outermost corner thereof. The corner hoop is pivotably supported with its two free ends each at a crank arm with the crank arm being arranged to be pivotable about the pivot point of the main hoop. The corner hoop is connected, at a spacing from its point of articulation to the crank arm, by way of a joint to a guide arm which hingedly engages at the main hoop at a spacing from its pivot point. The joint between the guide arm and the corner hoop cooperates, at least when the top is almost opened up, with a curved guide means which has an ascending slope in a direction pointing away from the pivot point of the main hoop.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2682427 (1954-06-01), Bright
patent: 2864388 (1958-12-01), Oliver
patent: 3994524 (1976-11-01), Lehmann

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