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US 5,335,961 AGranted
Vehicle roof with a series of plates
AssigneeWebasto Karosseriessysteme GmbH
InventorsBurkhard Reinsch, Peter Reihl
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AssigneeWebasto Karosseriessysteme GmbH
InventorsBurkhard Reinsch, Peter Reihl
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A vehicle roof for closing an aperture in a fixed roof surface comprising a series of strip-like plates. In closing the roof, the plates lie edge to edge to form a flat sheet. The plates are mounted on guide tracks in a roof frame fixed beneath the roof surface around the aperture. Each plate is carried on the guide tracks at two locations, and the plates can be moved rearwards and tilted. In the roof open position, the plates are pivoted upward and lie substantially parallel to one another. The pivoting takes place towards the rear of the aperture as each plate is completing its rearward movement. The plates remain engaged with both guide track locations at all times and this ensures the stability of the assembly. In each case, a drip molding is hinged at least on a part of the plates. The drip moldings are guided to slide along lengthwise guideways, and they take part only in the sliding movements of the respective plates, not their pivoting. The drip moldings lie under a lengthwise edge of the plates that extends crosswise to the direction of displacement in each position of the respective plate, and with pivoting of the plate remains below the lower of the lengthwise edges of the respective plate.
Vehicle roof with a series of strip-like plates for closing and at least partially opening a roof opening in a fixed roof surface, said plates adjoining one another, in a closed position, in a manner forming a flat composite plate assembly in which interconnections are formed between adjoining plates, and said plates being guided along first guideways which form part of a guide means for causing the flat composite plate assembly to perform a translatory movement, in a longitudinal direction of the roof and crosswise relative to lengthwise edged of the strip-like plates, and means for producing an upward pivoting of each plate during said translatory movement, each of the interconnections being disconnected by said upwardly pivoting of each plate in an opening direction on a sequential, plate-by-plate, basis when opening the roof and each interconnection being restored in a reverse manner when closing the roof;
Vehicle roof with a series of strip-like plates for closing and at least partially opening a roof opening in a fixed roof surface, said plates adjoining one another, in closed position, in a manner forming a flat composite plate assembly in which interconnections are formed between adjoining plates, and said plates being guided along first guideways which form part of a guide means for causing the flat composite plate assembly to perform a translatory movement, in a longitudinal direction of the roof and crosswise relative to lengthwise edges of the strip-like plates, and means for producing an upward pivoting of each plate during said translatory movement, each of the interconnections being disconnected by said upwardly pivoting of each plate in an opening direction on a sequential, plate-by-plate basis when opening the roof and during which each interconnection is restored in a reverse manner when closing the roof;
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