Top bow tack strip

Details Top bow tack strip Top bow tack strip

1994-09-19

1996-10-01

Mitchell, David M.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

52376, 160264, B60J 712

Patent

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055606709

ABSTRACT:
A convertible top bow comprises an elongated U-shaped metal channel defining a trough bounded by a pair of spaced side walls interconnected at their bottom ends by a bottom wall. An elongated plastic tacking strip has a generally-trapezoidal main body received in the channel. The main body has an upper tacking surface for receiving staples to secure a fabric top to the bow. The tacking strip is secured to the channel by deforming the upper ends of the channel side walls inwardly to clinch the tacking strip body beneath the wings. The tacking strip has a pair of upwardly convex curved wings extending from the depressed upper tacking surface up and over the upper edges of the channel sides. This isolates the channel tops from engagement with the fabric cover and provides bearing surfaces for the fabric cover as it moves over the bow during top movement.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2137460 (1938-11-01), Reid
patent: 2538931 (1951-01-01), Zummach
patent: 5427429 (1995-06-01), Piontek et al.

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