Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1990-01-11
1991-04-23
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
49476, 296218, B60J 711
Patent
active
050094645
ABSTRACT:
A water-tight structure for draining liquid and method for forming the structure applicable to a hatch-roof (T-bar roof) type vehicle are disclosed in which a V-shaped groove of a first weatherstrip disposed aside a center pillar of a vehicle body, the opening of a roof onto which a detachable hatch roof is attached, and a front pillar, receives a wedge-shaped end of a second weatherstrip disposed along a side edge of the hatch roof in a tongue and groove joint at a position of the center pillar bridged to the roof, a draining passage in a closed cross section is formed between a vehicle body panel and finisher both constituting the center pillar, a flange portion is integrally extended from that part of the first weatherstrip in the rearward direction, the flange portion being elastically contacted with the hatch roof and finisher and introducing water such as rain drops from the rain water passage into another drain water passage, and a terminal portion of the first weatherstrip is formed by means of a mold together with a cut out portion of a seal lip disposed along an elongated direction of the first weatherstrip. The terminal portion may be provided with a plurality of ribs.
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Fujihira Junichi
Hasegawa Minekazu
Ikeda Keiichi
Kinugawa Rubber Industrial Co. Ltd.
Pedder Dennis H.
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