Device for fixing a window molding onto a windowpane

A windowpane assembly of a vehicle, which has a window molding and a windowpane arranged in an L-shaped cross-sectional fillister of a vehicle body, said fillister extending along an outer periphery of the windowpane and comprising a riser portion which extends inwardly from the vehicle body, and a bottom portion which extends substantially parallel to the vehicle body from an inner end of said riser portion, the windowpane being stuck onto the bottom portion by means of an adhesive material, a gap formed between the riser portion and the outer periphery of the windowpane being covered by the window molding which has a substantially C-shaped cross-section, said device having a molding clip inserted into the gap for fixing the window molding onto the windowpane, said molding clip comprising:

• a holding portion engageable with the C-shaped cross-section of said window molding;
• a central base portion connected to said holding portion and extending substantially perpendicular to said holding portion towards the bottom portion of said fillister;
• a pair of V-shaped elastic wings intended to resiliently abut against the outer periphery of said windowpane within said gap and extending outwardly from said central base portion in opposite directions, each of said elastic wings comprising a first wing portion which extends outwardly from said central base portion along the riser portion of said fillister and has an outermost end, and a second wing portion which extends inwardly from said outermost end;
• latch means arranged on said second wing portions and being engageable with said central base portion for maintaining said elastic wings in a compressed state to accumulate the elastic force of said elastic wings, and;
• disengaging means for disengaging said latch means from said central base portion and causing said elastic wings to resiliently abut against the outer periphery of said windowpane.