Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1985-03-04
1987-03-03
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296216, 296222, 296224, 296221, B60J 7057, B60J 7047, B60J 719
Patent
active
046471065
ABSTRACT:
A lifting/sliding roof for vehicles having a cover for the selective closing and at least partial exposing of an opening in the roof. The cover, starting from its closed position, can be swung around a transverse axis located near its front end into a tilted-up position wherein its rear edge is lifted up, and can be, for selected embodiments, slid rearwardly either over or beneath the roof along guide rails, extending on both sides of the opening in the roof, into an open position. A catching device that is automatically adjustable as a function of the motion of the cover can be engaged with a counterbearing in the closed position of the cover for holding down the rear end of the cover. The counterbearing is attached at a stationary part of the roof. The catching device is mounted at the cover so as to be displaceable therewith, but it is also in permanent pivotal engagement with a driving rod member which, during swinging motion of the cover, in a raising as well as in a lowering direction, forces the catching device to carry out an additional movement with respect to the cover which, in the raising direction, assists the upward movement of the rear edge of the cover.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4364601 (1982-12-01), katayama et al.
Pedder Dennis H.
Reeves Robert B.
Webasto-Werk W. Baier GmbH & Co.
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