Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1993-07-12
1996-01-09
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
180 6921, 411258, 411535, 411930, 16 82, 2482053, 403345, B60R 2700
Patent
active
054823480
ABSTRACT:
A two-piece hood support bumper of such construction that it can be set at an infinitely determinable height by the weight and/or position of the hood itself during the process of installing the support member, and whereby the support member is permanently set in that position by an adhesive carried within the two-piece member prior to the final position being set. A method of installing a vehicle hood assembly by providing a self-height adjusting support member intermediate the ends of the hoods and at both side edges, and which is set in its final position after bringing both ends of the hood into a condition flush with the adjoining body panels and wherein the height of the support member is established by the hood itself as it is brought to rest on the front hood bumpers.
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Hagen Martin G.
Mass Noah B.
White Mark C.
Ford Motor Company
May Roger L.
Pedder Dennis H.
Stock Daniel M.
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