GB433065A - Improvements in and connected with the roofs of automobile bodies - Google Patents

Abstract

433,065. Vehicle opening-tops. PARSONS, J., Yew Tree Lane, Blackheath, near Birmingham. March 12, 1934, No: 7723. [Class 108 (i)] In slidable panels for vehicle roof openings of the kind adapted in the closed position, to be flush with the upper surface of the roof, the panel is raised and lowered bodily when registering with the roof opening before or after which it is slid under or from the fixed part of the roof. The roof panel 1 is carried by two pairs of links 8 on a frame, slidable as a whole on guides 4 in the fixed roof by means of rollers 5, the frame comprising two elements 2, 3 slidable relatively to one another by means of slots 7. The frame is provided with a handle 11 by which the panel 1 and frame 2, 3 are movable longitudinally. In the open position the panel 1 is lowered and in the closing movement the panel 1 is arrested by a fixed abutment 20, the continued travel of the frame 2, 3 causing the links 8 to raise the panel until it seals the roof opening. The panel 1 is provided at its margins with a channel containing rubber, &c., which is adapted to be pressed up against a V-shaped member carried by the margins of the fixed roof, the links 8 being adapted to pass their dead centres to lock the sealing means. When the panel 1 abuts the stop 20 the handle 11 is turned causing levers 13 to advance the element 3 and raise the panel 1 and also operating a catch member 17 to engage a projection 19 on the fixed roof. Instead of a two part frame 2, 3 and links 8, a slidable frame with cams may carry and operate the movable panel 1. Fig. 7 shows a locking means in which a dog 31 is spring pressed into one of a series of apertures 32 in the guide 4, the dog being retracted by a projection 33 on the element 3 on relative sliding of the elements 2, 3.