Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1998-03-24
1999-11-30
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296 72, 280779, B62D 2508
Patent
active
059929251
ABSTRACT:
Side attachment assemblies are provided for mounting an instrument panel cross car support beam structure or the like to right and left hand cowl panels of a vehicle body. Each attachment assembly includes a support member mountable on one of the cowl panels and including an upwardly facing planar supporting surface; an end member mountable on an end of the support beam and including a lower supported surface engaging the supporting surface of the support member and a pair of acutely angled longitudinally spaced locking surfaces extending upward from the supported surface; a wedge member engaging at least one of the locking surfaces of the support member, the other of the locking surfaces engaging a mating surface on one of said wedge member and the support member for retaining the end member on the supporting surface of said support member; and a fastener urging the wedge member toward the support member and holding the wedge member against at least one of the locking surfaces of the end member to maintain all of the members in assembly. Various alternative embodiments are disclosed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5238286 (1993-08-01), Tanaka et al.
patent: 5282637 (1994-02-01), McCreadie
patent: 5868426 (1999-02-01), Edwards et al.
Engle Patricia
General Motors Corporation
Marra Kathryn A.
Pedder Dennis H.
Sedlar Jeffrey A.
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