Automobile bumper
AssigneeDr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWalter Braun, Hermann Burst, Dietmar Peter
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Abstract
An automobile bumper having a support that is rigid in its configuration and a covering of elastic material is fixed to the car body via a flangelike portion by fastening means but can be bolted. Visible depressions, indentations or the like in the covering are avoided in a preferred embodiment by a strip having a widened portion that penetrates into the flangelike covering and which has sleeves which extend through the covering so as to bear upon the vehicle body in the region of the fastening members.
Claims8
In an automobile bumper of the type having a support of a rigid configuration and a covering of elastic material with a flangelike portion securable to a car body by fastening members, the improvement comprising:
- a strip formed in a rigid configuration and provided over at least a partial extent of said covering, said strip having sleeves which extend from an outer surface of said covering through said flange-like portion so as to bear on the car body in the region of the fastening members.
A bumper according to calims 1, characterized in that the strip is made of aluminum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.