Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1990-06-05
1991-04-30
Kashinkow, Andres
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296222, B60J 705, B60J 7053
Patent
active
050112198
ABSTRACT:
A raisable sliding roof for motor vehicles, including a slidable rigid cover having front and rear ends, and which slides into a position in which a roof opening is covered, the cover being displaceable into an opening position in which is released from the opening, and raisable into a ventilation position, sliding shoes arranged to support the cover front end, additional sliding shoes and supporting arms arranged to support the cover rear end, a casing having two halves connected to articulate about an axis transverse to a cover sliding direction, the casing halves each having outer ends which are articulated at the vehicle roof by elastic joints, at least one lifting and lowering device supported at the vehicle roof for adjusting the casing halves from a substantially horizontal normal position into a downwardly bent position, guide rails arranged in the casing to receive the sliding and additional sliding shoes, blocks of springy elastic material and compression springs arranged to support at least one of the casing halves at a horizontal extension region of a roof reinforcement partially surrounding the roof opening, a strip-shaped beam arranged horizontally on a front wall of the one casing half so that the beam and the casing half rest against the elastic blocks, a screw bolt passing through each block so that the block abuts the bolt head, and a nut and one of the compression springs being arranged on each of the bolts at an end opposite the head to support the bolt, the nut end spring being on an upper side of the roof reinforcement.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4475767 (1984-10-01), Grimm et al.
patent: 4611849 (1986-09-01), Trenkler
Johnson Brian J.
Karosseriewerke Weinsberg GmbH
Kashinkow Andres
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