Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Auxiliary article compartments
Patent
1986-07-09
1988-01-05
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Auxiliary article compartments
296218, 296224, 224 4242, 2482233, 108133, B60J 720, B60J 711
Patent
active
047171928
ABSTRACT:
A unit for storing a demountable roof panel, wherein movement of the demountable roof panel is controlled by a roof panel fixing device, with which one end edge of the demountable roof panel is engaged, and a roof panel holding device, with which the other end edge of the demountable roof panel is engaged. The demountable roof panel is thereby stored in a storing space of a motor vehicle. The roof panel fixing device includes: a support mounted to an inner peripheral wall of the storing space; a stay pivoted on a rotary shaft to be rotatable about the rotary shaft horizontally provided on the support from a retracted position wherein the stay is substantially close to and parallel to the inner peripheral wall of the storing space to a position where the stay projects into the storing space, to be engaged with a mounting bracket provided at one end edge of the demountable roof panel; and stay fixing means for fixing the stay to the projected positon so that the mounting bracket is engaged with the stay.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3035815 (1962-05-01), Sparks
patent: 3550891 (1970-12-01), Scott
patent: 3635518 (1972-01-01), Eger
patent: 4467944 (1984-08-01), Manko et al.
Iwamura Tooru
Yoshikawa Hirokazu
Pedder Dennis H.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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