Door, especially for motor vehicles
AssigneeMesserschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
InventorsErnst Engelsberger, Ralf-Thilo Schulz
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Abstract
The present car door has an interior panel forming simultaneously a frame, nd an exterior panel. Hinges and a lock base plate are secured to the frame. Two supporting rails are pivotally secured to the frame. One rail extends substantially horizontally between the upper hinge zone and the lock base plate. The other rail extends at an angle relative to the one rail from the lower hinge zone to the lock base plate. A cable which is expandable in a nonreversible manner extends at least along one of the rails, preferably along the horizontal rail. The cable has a loop at each end. A bolt which also journals the respective rail end to the frame extends through the respective loop of the cable.
Claims7
A door, especially for a motor vehicle, comprising door frame means including vertically extending frame members, hinge means operatively secured to one frame member of said vertically extending frame members, a lock base plate operatively secured to the other frame member of said vertically extending frame members, a first substantially horizontally extending rail (2.1) having a longitudinal axis, first journal bolt means (5) for journalling said first rail with one end thereof to a respective one of said hinge means and with the other rail end to said lock base plate, a second rail (2.2) extending at an angle to the first rail, second journal bolt means (5') for journalling said second rail with one end thereof to the respective other hinge means and with the other rail end also to the lock base plate, said first and second journal bolt means (5, 5') extending also substantially horizontally and perpendicularly to the respective rail end for movably mounting the rail ends so that the first and second rails are substantially free of deformations under load condition until the brake stress is reached, and irreversibly expandable cable means secured with their/ends to said first journal means whereby said cable means extend substantially in parallel at least to said first rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.