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US 5,224,752 AGranted
Vehicle bodies
AssigneeJaguar Cars Limited
InventorHoward A. Marshall
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Abstract
A vehicle body has a door aperture the door aperture being bounded along its lower edge by a sill section and by forward and rearward upstanding post sections, a door being located in the door aperture, the door being hinged to one post section and releasably engaging a catch on the other post section, a tie bar is provided adjacent the edge of the door remote from the sill section, clamping elements being provided for releasably clamping the tie bar with respect to both the forward and rearward post sections when the door is closed, the tie bar being capable when clamped of transmitting tensile, compressive and torsional loads from one post section to the other post section.
Claims10
A vehicle body having:
- a door aperture, the door aperture being bounded along its lower edge by a sill section and by forward and rearward upstanding post sections;
- and a door located in the aperture, the door being formed by inner and outer panels with side panels defining the side edges of the door, the outer panel extending beyond the side edges of the door, the door being hinged to one post section and releasably engaging a catch on the other post section;
- a tie bar having two opposed ends being provided adjacent an edge of the door remote from the sill section, the ends of the tie bar extending beyond the side edges of the door, a formation being provided at each end of the tie bar, a complimentary formation associated with each post section being provided for abutment of each formation axially opposite sides thereof, upon closure of the door, to transmit tensile and compressive loads between the forward and rearward post sections and means to prevent rotation of each formation with respect to its associated post section about the axis of the tie bar in order to transmit torsional loads between the forward and rearward post sections;
- the tie bar being biased away from the hinged edge of the door to a position in which the formation at each end of the tie bar will be clear of their complimentary formations on the post sections when the door is closed, means being provided to move the tie bar axially so that the formations on the tie bar move into engagement with the complimentary formations associated with each post section.
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A vehicle body having:
- a door aperture, the door aperture being bounded along tis lower edge by a sill section and by forward and rearward upstanding post sections;
- and a door located in the aperture, the door being formed by inner and outer panels with side panels defining the side edges of the door, the outer panel extending beyond the side edges of the door, the door being hinged to one post section and releasably engaging a catch on the other post section;
- a tie bar having two opposed ends being provided adjacent an edge of the door remote from the sill section, the ends of the tie bar extending beyond the side edges of the door, a formation being provided at each end of the tie bar, a complimentary formation associated with each post section being provided for abutment of each formation on axially opposite sides thereof, upon closure of the door, to transmit tensile and compressive loads between the forward and rearward post sections and means to prevent rotation of each formation with respect to its associated post section about the axis of the tie bar in order to transmit torsional loads between the forward and rearward post sections;
- the formation being provided at the end of the tie bar remote from the hinged edge of the door being a head formation, the head formation being arranged to located between a pair of clamping elements of the complementary formation mounted on the associated post section, and means being provided for moving one clamping element towards the other to clamp the head formation therebetween.
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A vehicle body having:
- a door aperture, the door aperture being bounded along its lower edge by a sill section and by forward and rearward upstanding post sections:
- and a door located in the aperture, the door being formed by inner and outer panels with side panels defining the side edges of the door, the outer panel extending beyond the side edges of the door, the door being hinged to one post section and releasably engaging a catch on the other post section;
- a tie bar having two opposed ends being provided adjacent an edge of the door remote from the sill section, the ends of the tie bar extending beyond the side edges of the door, a formation being provided at each end of the tie bar, clamping means associated with each post section being provided for engagement of each formation on axially opposite sides thereof, upon closure of the door, to transmit tensile and compressive loads between the forward and rearward post sections;
- and means to prevent rotation of each formation on the tie bar with respect to its associated post section about the axis of the tie bar, to transmit torsional loads between the forward and rearward post sections, the clamping means being releasable to permit opening of the door.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.