Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1987-05-07
1989-01-31
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
296188, 49 40, 70DIG64, B60J 506
Patent
active
048011720
ABSTRACT:
A closure assembly for aerodynamically designed automotive vehicles having body sections with door or displaceable panel apertures formed in generally curved exterior walls and multipart aperture closures such as combinations of solid door panels and windows as well as roof panels which are slidably mounted on the vehicle body section and selectively and rotatably movable within the curved exterior vehicle body wall about the circumference of arcs formed by sections through the exterior wall of the vehicle body between closed and at least partially open positions. Each of the closure parts have a dimension in the direction of rotational movement less than the full dimension of the body aperture so as to be cooperatively capable of filling the body aperture when fully and rotatably extended to a closed position and a unitary reinforcing member on the closure and extending across the aperture to reinforce the body section.
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Automotive Industries, vol. 162, No. 8, Aug. 1982, p. 26, Flush Glass Article.
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