Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1976-04-02
1977-07-19
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
296137R, B60J 900
Patent
active
040365220
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle body roof construction of the disclosure includes an improved edge structure adjacent closure members thereof such as a side door or rear tailgate and also includes an improved pillar structure for supporting a roof panel whose edge portions are stamped to define integrally connected flanges that constitute components of the improved roof edge structure. At the side and rear edge portions of the roof panel, roof inner members have extreme outer edges secured to extreme outer edges of the roof panel so as to cooperate therewith in providing a side roof rail and a tailgate header that define the upper extremities of side door and tailgate openings, respectively. An associated side door and a tailgate are mounted for movement between open and closed positions and include upper window frames that overlie the adjacent roof panel edge portion in their closed position. Pillars support the side edge portion of the roof panel at its juncture with the rear and front edge portions of the roof panel. Each pillar includes inner and outer members that define an enclosed chamber and include first and second portions that project along the adjacent front or rear edge portion and the side edge portion, respectively. The pillar outer member includes depressions in its projecting portions at a spaced location from the juncture of the roof panel edge portions.
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DeRees Delbert D.
Pinsonneault Jacques Emile
American Motors Corporation
Carroll John A.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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