Folding top for cross-country vehicles

Details Folding top for cross-country vehicles Folding top for cross-country vehicles

1987-07-17

1989-07-25

Pedder, Dennis H.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

296121, 296122, B60J 712

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active

048506346

ABSTRACT:
A folding top in a cross-country vehicle includes front struts pivotally connected to opposite sides of a vehicle and mutually connected by a front cross tube, rear struts, each formed of flexibly connected rear strut sections, the rear struts being pivotably connected to the opposite sides of the vehicle and being mutually connected by a rear cross tube, and lateral struts flexibly connected to corresponding ones of the front and rear struts at positions adjacent connections of the front and rear struts to the front and rear cross tubes, respectively, the lateral struts each including mutually articulated front and rear lateral strut sections. Retainers constituting a latching device can be positioned between the strut sections of the rear and lateral struts. A tarpaulin top fitted on the struts includes portions which can be zippered closed relative to one another.

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