US 4,483,100 AGranted

Pane guide for a sliding window capable of being lowered into the window shaft of an automobile

AssigneeRockwell-Golde G.m.b.H.

InventorsHeinz Blankenburg, Peter Schafer, Fritz Marr, Harald Kollner, Rainer Grimm, Wilhelm Scherf, Horst Bohm

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Abstract

In a pane guide for a sliding window capable of being lowered into the window shaft (8) of an automobile, the windowpane (1) is laterally guided on windowframe components (4,5), in which back-cut guide channels (18,18') are provided, in which slide elements (23,23') are displaceably guided. The slide elements are connected with the windowpane (1), covering the windowframe components on the outer side of the vehicle, by carrier elements (19 to 22). Due to the mounting of the windowpane outside the windowframe, a projectionless lateral glazing of an automobile is made possible. At the lower end of at least one of the lateral windowframe components (4,5), the guide tube (11, 11') of a cable/tube window winder is connected in alignment with the guide channel (18, 18'). The threaded cable (12, 12') of the window winder extends into the guide channel (18, 18') and is fixed at least to one of the slide elements (19 to 22) situated therein. In this manner a low overall height of the windowshaft is achieved, so that the windowpane and the window shaft can have approximately the same height. With the windowpane (1) is associated a seal (46) disposed on the windowframe (4 to 7), which seal is either continually in sealing contact with the windowpane or, by a movable mounting of the seal or of the windowpane, is arranged so that it can be pressed automatically onto the windowpane (1).

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Dependent claims

In a pane guide for a sliding window capable of being lowered into the window shaft of an automobile, the windowpane of which is slidably guided at both lateral edges on lateral windowframe components extending into the window shaft and is connected with the actuating element of a window winder which is formed as flexible threaded cable guided in tension-resistant and pressure-resistant manner displaceably in a guide tube, which cable engages with the drive pinion of a stationary mounted drive apparatus, the improvement comprising:

a back-cut guide channel (18, 18') of circular cross-section at each window frame component (4, 5), each said guide channel extending in the longitudinal direction of its respective window frame component and having a slit (26, 26') extending over its entire length, slide elements (23, 23') displaceably guided in said guide channels and connected with carrier elements (19, 22) fixed to the inner surface of the windowpane (1), said slits (26, 26') permitting movement of said carrier elements (19, 22) with said slide elements (23, 23'), a guide tube (11, 11') aligned with and connected to the lower end of at least one of the windowframe components (4, 5), said guide channels (18, 18') having a diameter corresponding to the internal diameter of said guide tube (11, 11'), and a threaded cable (12, 12') extending into the guide channel (18, 18'), at said one window frame component (4, 5) and fixed to at least one of the slide elements (23, 23') situated therein.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.