Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Let-down type top
Patent
1996-03-06
1998-05-12
Hoge, Gary C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Let-down type top
296117, B60J 708
Patent
active
057496196
ABSTRACT:
Motor vehicle with a foldable roof, which foldable roof comprises a bow assembly with a main bow, a fabric tensioning bow which can be pivoted up and down, for the rear part of the foldable roof, and a buggy-link system with two links. These links at one side are pivotably connected to each other and are also pivotably connected to the fabric tensioning bow and to a fixing point of the bow assembly respectively.
The foldable roof also comprises a power drive unit which is connected for drive purposes to the buggy-link system, and can move the buggy-link system between an extended position, in which the links thereof lie essentially in line with each other and thereby force the fabric tensioning bow downwards, and a bent position, in which the links lie at an angle relative to each other.
The power drive unit, for example a hydraulic cylinder, is placed in a side wall part of the vehicle. A transmission mechanism is present, which transmission mechanism connects the drive unit for drive purposes to one of the links of the buggy-link system.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5026110 (1991-06-01), Koop et al.
patent: 5042868 (1991-08-01), Nothaft et al.
Applied Power Inc.
Hoge Gary C.
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