Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1991-01-18
1992-01-28
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
296 51, 296164, B60J 510
Patent
active
050838334
ABSTRACT:
A variable size door assembly for a vehicle rear opening includes a body with upper and lower portions and an inner door opening. The body is mounted on the vehicle by a hinge. The extensions can be cut off to reduce the body lower portion width whereby vehicles with rear openings of various widths can be accommodated by the door assembly. A pair of gasket subassemblies each includes a rigid gasket member with a side flange for mounting on a respective side jamb of the rear opening and a back flange extending into the rear opening from a respective side flange. Each gasket subassembly also includes a flexible gasket member mounted on a respective side edge at the body lower portion for resiliently and compressibly mating with a respective rigid gasket member. An inner door assembly is hingedly mounted on the body and includes a door for controlling ingress and egress through the inner door opening in the body.
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Focarino Margaret A.
Pape Joseph D.
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