Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Let-down type top
Patent
1991-02-07
1992-03-31
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Let-down type top
B60J 700
Patent
active
051001950
ABSTRACT:
A convertible vehicle has a convertible top assembly movable between raised and lowered positions covering and opening the passenger compartment. The top assembly has an articulated frame comprising a header for engaging a vehicle windshield header in raised position, a plurality of transverse bows, and a fabric cover supported by the bows. The cover is attached to the frame by strips of hook-and-loop fastener material mounted on the top header and the transverse bows which engage mating strips of the material mounted on adjacent portions of the cover for interengagement to form attachment joints securing the cover to the frame. The rear edge of the cover is attached to a movable rear bow which seals against the vehicle body in one embodiment. In another embodiment the rear edge of the cover is attached to the periphery of the boot.
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Focarino Margaret A.
Greenlee David A.
Hoge Gary C.
Wickes Manufacturing Company
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