Retractable roof for passenger vehicles, especially a hard...

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2006-05-02

2006-05-02

Engle, Patricia L. (Department: 3612)

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

C296S107190, C296S107080, C296S107030, C296S107070, C280S756000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07036866

ABSTRACT:
A convertible motor vehicle has a seat, a trunk behind the seat, and a storage compartment extending transversely of the direction behind the seat and forward of the trunk and extending laterally of the seat in the direction forward past the seat. An arcuate and rigid roof shell has two rear end posts defining a rear opening and riding via slides in guide rails laterally spacedly flanking the seat and extending from the compartment in the direction forward past the seat. The roof can move along the guide rails between an up position wholly out of the storage compartment and a down position wholly in the compartment with the guide slides laterally flanking the seat. A rear windshield displaceable between a lowered position in the storage compartment and a raised position fitting between the rear end posts of the windshield in the up position thereof and closing the rear opening.

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