Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-19
2005-07-19
Pedder, Dennis H. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
C296S214000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06918629
ABSTRACT:
An open roof assembly for a vehicle, having a roof opening defined in the roof of the vehicle includes a foldable closure mechanism for closing and opening said roof opening. The closure mechanism includes an outer cloth and an inner cloth mutually spaced in the closed position of the closure mechanism, wherein the closure mechanism at its opposite longitudinal edges extend in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and is provided with a number of spaced slides which, in a driven manner, are movable along guides extending along corresponding longitudinal edges of the roof opening. The slides carry elongated folding arms that, with ends remote from the slides, support the outer cloth and inner cloth and are biased towards a position for zig-zag like folding during opening of the roof opening. The ends of the folding arms remote from the slides are each provided with an extension arm extending in an inclined manner in a direction substantially away from the corresponding slide and towards the inner cloth, wherein each end of the extension arms remote from the corresponding folding arm is connected to and substantially engages the inner cloth.
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Nabuurs Martinus Wilhelmus Maria
Nellen Marcel Johan Christiaan
Fronek Todd R.
Inalfa Roof Systems Group B.V.
Koehler Steven M.
Pedder Dennis H.
Westman Champlin & Kelly P.A.
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