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US 4,378,658 AGranted
Mounting for a vehicle door
AssigneeDelorean Research Limited Partnership
InventorJohn Z. DeLorean
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Abstract
A door is mounted to hinge about a horizontal axis between a closed position and an open position. A torsion bar is mounted in pretensioned manner to bias the door from the closed position to the open position and to hold the door in the open position in a tensioned manner. The vehicle body is made of molded reinforced plastic while the hinges and mounting plates are metal.
Claims8
In combination:
- a vehicle body;
- a door;
- a pair of hinges disposed on a common hinge axis, for mounting said door on said vehicle body for movement between a closed position and an open position, each hinge having a mounting plate, a hinge plate and a pin mounted on said axis and in said mounting plate with said hinge plate pivoted thereon;
- means securing said mounting plate to said vehicle body;
- at least one bolt securing each respective hinge plate to said door frame, said bolt having a projecting head for abutting said vehicle in a recessed manner in a closed position of said door;
- and
- a torsion bar having one end secured to said door and another end secured to said vehicle body biasing said door toward said open position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.