Sliding-tilting-roof for motor vehicles

Sliding-rising roof for motor vehicles comprising:

• a rigid cover plate which in its closed position, closes a roof cut-out while forming an encircling marginal gap;
• said cover plate having front and rear slide blocks by which it is laterally guided on guide rails mounted in the roof cut-out;
• said front and rear slide blocks being driven by pressure-resistantly and displaceably guided cables which engage said rear slide blocks;
• said cover plate being capable of being either raised in the manner of front hinged ventilator flaps, by having its rear edge raised or, once its rear edge has been lowered, moved under the rear rigid roof cover;
• the front edge of said cover plate being pivotally mounted on an intermediate frame which is in turn pivotally mounted on the front slide blocks;
• the rear frame part of said intermediate frame engaging beneath a marginal gap with interposition of a first and second sealing element which when in the closed position said first sealing element bears on the underside of the cover plate and said second sealing element bears on the underside of the roof area;
• and in that the rear slide blocks are in driving connection with the intermediate frame and the cover plate, the intermediate frame is fixed in the closed position during pivoting movement of the cover plate and, starting from the closed position, is interlocked with the cover plate upon lowering of the rear edge of the cover plate and being displaceable together therewith;
• and a guide pin fixed on each of the two rear slide blocks directed substantially horizontally and tranversely of the direction of cover plate displacement, the guide pin engaging a first guide link mounted laterally on the intermediate frame and having pivotally mounted on its free end a raising lever which has first and second spaced-apart slide pins mounted on it which engage into a second guide link mounted laterally on the cover plate.