US 5,341,599 AGranted

Replacement vehicle window attachment

OwnerCharles E. Coxinventor

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Abstract

This invention is directed to a new and simplified method of installing a vehicle window glass in the glass carrier or regulator of a vehicle. By this method the glass can be mounted more securely and in considerably less time than has heretofore been required. A flat washer shaped member, preferably formed of nylon, and having a central aperture and a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially extending angular projections partially overlying the central aperture and having humps at about the mid-section of the axially extending surfaces have become known as "window things", because they do so many good things so well. The inner ends of the axially extending members are of slightly less diameter than are the precut internal diameter of the holes in the replacement window. These members, being formed of nylon, will deflect inwardly sufficiently to permit the slightly enlarged humps of the "window things" to be snapped through the precut holes in the replacement windows. The window is then aligned with the regulator, and the screw is threaded through the regulator and through the "window things" at the flat side of the assembly and through the replacement glass to deflect the axially extending members outwardly to securely clamp the window to the regulator.

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Dependent claims

A one piece reusable attachment member adaptable for the attachment and disattachment of a replacement automobile window having an aperture penetrating therethrough, to a window regulator having an aperture penetrating therethrough, utilizing a threaded screw, the threaded screw being insertable and removable from the attachment member, the attachment member comprising;

a washer like member having;
a first side having a central point, the first side being in contact with the window regulator during use, a second side having a central point, the second side being in contact with the automobile replacement window during use, a penetrating aperture from the central point on the first side to the central point on the second side, the washer like member being securely attached to the window regulator by the threaded screw penetrating though the aperture of the window regulator and the aperture of the washer like member during use,
four prongs each having;
two opposing relatively perpendicularly intersecting members, the four prongs extending relatively perpendicularly from the washer like member on the second side and partially overlying the aperture of the washer like member, the four prongs being inserted through the penetrating aperture of the automobile replacement window and expanded outward by the placement of the threaded screw through the aperture of the washer like member were the four prongs overlie portions of the automobile replacement window to securely clamp the automobile replacement window to the attachment member during use wherein each prong has a pair of axially extending surfaces and wherein each pair of axially extending surfaces gradually increase in thickness and converges to a maximum radial thickness at substantially a midpoint of said prong.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.