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April 29 1924.

A. H. PAPE LLAPSIBLE ToPs 0F AUTOMOBILES INTO CLOSED TOPS MEANS FOR CONVERTING CO l Original Filed Oct. 27

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April 29 1924.

A. H. PAPE MEANS FOR CONVERTING COLLAPSIBLE T-OPS OF AUTOMOBILES ,INTO CLSED TOPS- I5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Original Filed Oct. 27. 1919 VvE/vrai? A fr PAPE April 29 1924.

A. H. PAPE MEALS FOR COVEHZTING COLLAPASIBLE TOPS OF AUTOMOBILES INTO CLOSEDYTOPS Grginal Filed Oct. 27. 3 Sheets-She 3 F/EZ /NVENTP- Reuma Apr. 29, 1924. Re. 15,827 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST E. PAPE, OF XENTFIELD, CALIFORNIA, ASSIG-NOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 ALLAN LARKINS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, DOING BUSINESS AS LARKIN TOP &v NOVELTY CO.

HEANS FOR CONVERTING COLLAPSIBLE TOPS OF AUTOMOBILES INTO CLOSED TOPS.

Original No. 1,383,908, dated December 28, 1920, Serial No. 883,441, led October 27, 1919. Application for reissue led Hay 1, 1922. Serial No. 557,812.

To all whom it may concern.' whole length of the car, and the other eX- Be it known that I, AUGUST H. PAPE, a tends forwardly just beyond the front wincitizen of the United States, residin at dow of the car, as shown ,at 9 in Figs. 1 and Kenteld, in the county of Marin and tatel 7. Said .rails are secured to said presser l of California, have invented new and useful bar by long screws 11, screwed through said Im rovements in Means for Converting presser bar and into said rods. Upon said Coapsible Tops of Automobiles into Closed rails can travel slide blocks 12, each formed Tops, of which the following is a speciat the top with a longitudinally extending fication. recess 13 curved concavely on its opposite 10 The object of the present invention is to sides to lit snugly against the convex sides provide means for converting a collapsible of the rails. to of an automobile into a closed top. Each block is formed with a central n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 socket extending upwardly from its lower is a broken side view of the upper portion side and meeting said longitudinally extendof ank automobile; Fig. 2 is a cross section ing recess yand threaded in its upper portion thereof on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking and in the threaded upper portion of said forwardly; Fig. 3 is a broken side view of socket is screwed a plug 14. The under side a part of theapparatus which I use for of said plu bears against the upper surface converting the top of the automobile into a of the hea 16 of a screw 17, said screws closed to Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional being placed in said socket from the top view of a portion of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a and screwed in the frame 15 of a window sectional view of parts shown in Fig. 4, 18, the lower side of said frame being slidlookin at right an les to Fig. 4; Fig. 6 able upon the upper edge of the car body. is a p an view of te automobile top, the Springs 21 are secured to the presser bar cover being removed, showin also the arand to pms 22 extending between the plates rangement whereby the win ows are conand normally raise said presser bar, thereby verted into a rear wind shield; Fig.V 7 is raising the rails and also the windows by a plan view of a portion of said apparatus; reason of the heads of the screws being con- Flg. 8 is a partial transverse section thru fined within the sockets. It results from the car showing the window converted into this construction that, when the window is a rear wind shleld; Fig. 9 is a broken rear being moved, its lower edge is free from the view of a rear portion of the car; Fig. 10 upper edge of the car body. When, howis a sectional view of a modified form of ever, it has been moved to'the position detrack. sired, the presser bar is de ressed to rest Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates the upon the ed e of the car bo y by means of cloth top of an open car and 2 the bows an arm 26 3 and 5) extendin from thereo Secured within said top, on each a shaft 27 mounted in the pair of oards side, and extending parallel with the side of or plates and carrying a handle 28 consaid top, is a palr of boards or plates 3, venie'nt for operation by a person within formin the foundation of my: improved the car. Upon turning said handle, said means ger conversion. The lower edges of arm isdepressed, pressing down upon the said plates are straight and horizontal and center portion of a long spring 23 attached e upper edges thereof are curved to conat its ends to the presser bar 7, thereby proform to the longitudinal curvature of the viding resilient pressure on said presser bar top of the car. Said plates are secured to and prevent rattling and equalizing the the bows 2 by angle irons 5 and screws 6. pressure, and pressing the windows down Between each pair of plates is a metal upon the edge of the car body so that said lian 45 stiil'ening a longitudinal presser windows are held firmly in position. bar which as shown may support tracks At the rear end, the plates of each pair or rails 8, said tracks consisting of round are spaced from each other by a sleeve 30 rods extendin longitudinally of the car. around a bolt 31 which passes through a One of said tracks or rails extends the vertically elongated hole 32 in the rear part of the presser bar, to allow the support to move freely vertically while preventing its longitudinal movement.

At the front end, the are spaced from each ot er by a block 33 suiiiciently wide that the plates are spaced sufiicientl far apart to permit the support to move reely therebetween.

I am able to utilize the rear windows for a rear wind shield by not extending the inner rail the whole length of the car. For this purpose, the rear window is moved forwardly until the front slide block 12 esca es from the forward end of the innerra 9, then the rear window is turned about its rear slidey block, which is still suspended from the rail, and can turn freely, and the screw head turns in the block remaining on the rail, until it extends in a transverse direction to the car, then the front block is caused to engage a single rail 38 suspended a cross beam 39 and extending trans'- versely in the middle portion of the car only a short distance. The ends of said cross beam 38 are passed through suiciently large holes in the inner plates 3 and are secured in the presser bar 7 between the pairs of plates.

40 indicates a stop at the front end of the outside rail, or track, to prevent the slide blocks from moving oill said rail. 41 indicates a pin or stop for limiting the upl ward movement of the presser bar 7 due to the action of the s rings 21.

In the form o track and presser bar shown in .Fi 10, the rails are made of a pressed meta 43 fastened by screws 44 to the support 7 of the track.

In order to securely attach thevwindow 18 to its supporting screw 17, there is interposed between the sides of the sheet metal frame 15 of the window an extrapiece of metal 20, which, being pinned to the sheet metal frame b the pins 25,'serves to connect the'top 51de of the sheet metall frame to the vertical sides, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. This extra iece of metal also provides additional bo y for the screws 17 to be screwed into.

I claim:

1. The combination with an automobile body and a top therefor, of guides secured to the top, substantially horizontal presser bars movable up and down between the guides, means for yieldingly holding said presser bars in up position, windows movable longitudinally over the body and manually operated means for depressing the presser barsV and applying a yielding and holding pressure to the windows.

2. In an automobile, the combination of a window, the lower edge of which is" adjacent to theupper edge of the body of the automobile, a longitudinal track, the upper edge of the window being provided with pllates of each pair means adapted to slide along said track, means for raisin said track to raise the lower edge of t e window from off the upper edge of said automobile body, and means for depressing said track to press said lower edge against the upper edge of said body.

3. In an automobile, the combination of a window, the lower edge of which is adjacent to the upper edge of the body of the automobile, a longitudinal presser bar, the upper edge of the window being provided with means adapted to slide along said bar, means for` resiliently raising said bar to raise the lower edgeof the window from o the upper ed e of said automobile body, and means for epressing said bar to press said lower edge against the upper edge of said body.

4. In combination with the top of an automobile and a frame therefor, guides `secured to said frame in said top, a presser bar movable upV and down relative to said guides, window tracks secured to said presserbar, springs for raising said presser bar and means for depressing said presser bar against said sprlngs.

5. VIn combination of an automobile, of a guide secured to said top, a presser bar movable u and down with respect to the guide, win ows slidable longitudinally with relation to the body sprmgs for raising said presser bar and manually operated means for exerting a resilient pressure on thevbars at a plurality of points against the action of said springs, tov old th'ewndows against sliding.

6. In combination wlth the top and body of an automobile, of a guide secured to the to a presser bar movable up and down wit `respect to the ide, a window slidable longitudinally relative to the body and top, resilient means for raising said presser bar and manually operated means forY applying a resilient pressure on the bar against the action of the springs and depressing said bar to hold the windows against sliding.

7. The combination with the top and ody elements of an automobile, of a presser bar movable u and down with relation to the top, a window slidable between the top and body, spring means operatively associate with the top and arranged so as to normally lift the window from the body and means for depressing the presser bar to apply pressure to the window to hold it against sliding.

8. The combination with the top and 'body elements of an automobile, of a presser bar movable u and down relative Yto the top, a window s idable between the to and body, spring means normally lifting t e window and presser bar and means for depressing the presser bar so as to apply a `holding pressure to the window.

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'body elements of an automobile, of a window slidable between the top and body elements, spring means operatlvely associated with the top and normally sup orting the window in position to ermit ree sliding of the window, a presser ar movable a inst action of said spring means into positlon to apply a yielding pressure to the window and manually operated means for so moving said 2o presser bar.

AUGUST H. PAPE.

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