Opening roof for a motor vehicle

Details Opening roof for a motor vehicle Opening roof for a motor vehicle

1986-03-04

1987-03-03

Reeves, Robert B.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Roof structure

296222, 296224, 296223, 292263, 49325, 217 60G, B60J 705, B60J 7057, B60J 7185

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046471057

ABSTRACT:
An opening roof assembly for a motor vehicle comprises a rigid panel adapted to close an opening in the vehicle roof with the panel supported at each side by front and rear guide means on respective guide tracks extending along each side of an opening in the vehicle roof and behind said opening below the vehicle roof. The front guide means permit pivotal movement of the panel about a horizontal axis at right-angles to the guide tracks and each rear guide means comprises a guide shoe arranged to be driven along the corresponding guide track and a chain comprising first and second links, the first link having a first pivot at one end connected to the shoe and a second pivot at the other end connected to one end of the second link, the other end of which has a third pivot connected to the roof panel. A third link is pivotally attached at one end to the third pivot and has a control pin at its other end adapted to retain the first link at a predetermined angle to the shoe when in a first state, and to retain the first link at a predetermined angle to the second link when in a second state.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4420184 (1983-12-01), Kaltz
patent: 4601512 (1986-07-01), Boots

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