Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Valance
Patent
1976-07-16
1978-04-25
Blunk, Evon C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Valance
98 214, B60J 704
Patent
active
040859657
ABSTRACT:
An automobile sliding roof, adapted to be alternatively positioned, includes a rigid sliding cover guided with forward and rear sliding shoes on laterally-mounted guide rails in the automobile roof opening, thrust-transmitting cables engaging the rear sliding shoes, pivot bearings on the forward sliding shoes permitting pivotal action of the cover about a horizontal axis extending transversely to the sliding direction, guide blocks secured to the longitudinal edges of the cover into which guide pins mounted on the rear sliding shoes engage and by which the cover, from its closed position, can be pivoted such that its rear edge is above the automobile roof surface or can be rearwardly slid underneath the roof surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3960404 (1976-06-01), Bienert
American Sunroof Manufacturing Company
Blunk Evon C.
Casey Everett R.
Forman Michael J.
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