Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1989-09-01
1991-04-23
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296 93, 296 9621, 52208, 52400, B60J 100
Patent
active
050094629
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle window molding installation including a molding concealing a space between a flange vehicle body panel and an edge of a window panel mounted on the body panel flange by a curable adhesive. The molding is a C-shaped channel member of plastic material fitted onto the edge of the window panel and having spaced apart outer and inner legs which forcibly grip the opposed outer and inner faces of the window panel. The channel member receives a bead of adhesive by which the channel member is adhesively mounted onto the window panel. A continuous flexible lip is extruded integral with the channel member and extends therefrom in a direction coplanar with the outer surface of the window panel and is effective upon mounting of the window panel upon the the body panel flange by the curable adhesive to bridge across the space between the window panel and the body panel. A continuous foot is extruded integral with the inner leg of the channel member and adapted to seat within the curable adhesive adhering the window panel to the body panel flange so that the adhesive surrounds the foot and thereby mechanically retains the lower leg of the molding onto both the window panel and the body panel independently of the bead of adhesive within the channel member to thereby further anchor the molding against being dislodged from the vehicle body.
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General Motors Corporation
Leahy Charles E.
Pedder Dennis H.
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