Method of installing automotive window molding
AssigneeCreative Extruded Products, Inc.
InventorsJames R. Biondo, Jack D. Young
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Abstract
A method of installing automotive window trim molding by applying a pair of spaced parallel gripping and retaining members on opposing planar surfaces of the window edge, adhering only one of the members to one of the surfaces, and subsequently removing all but the adhered member.
Claims20
In an automotive vehicle having a body panel and an adjacent window having an outer edge comprising inner and outer planar surfaces and a space between said body panel and said window edge;
- the method of installing an elastomeric molding around at least a portion of the periphery of said window edge, providing spaced opposing members gripping and retaining said planar surfaces of said window edge and further providing an interconnecting member therebetween, said members having window-contacting surfaces, adhering a first one of said gripping and retaining members to said inner planar surface of said window edge, and removing said other gripping and retaining member and said interconnecting member so that said first member is the sole member adhering to said window edge.
In an automotive vehicle having a body panel and an adjacent window having an outer edge comprising outer and inner planar surfaces and a space between said body panel and said window edge;
- an improved window molding extending around at least a portion of the periphery of said window edge, a first member of said molding having a window-contacting surface adapted to be adhered to said inner planar surface of said window edge, said molding being formed from a molding construction also comprised of a second spaced opposing member adapted to cooperate with said first member for gripping and retaining said window edge and further comprised of an interconnecting member between said first and second members, wherein said second member and said interconnecting member have been removed.
In combination, an automotive vehicle having a body panel, an adjacent window having an outer edge comprising outer and inner planar surfaces, a space between said body panel and said window edge, and an elastomeric window molding extending around at least a portion of the periphery of said window, said molding having a first member comprising a window-contacting surface adhered to said inner planar surface of said window edge, said molding being formed from a molding construction also comprised of a second spaced opposing member cooperating with said first member for gripping and retaining said window edge and further comprised of an interconnected member between said first and second members, wherein said second member and said interconnecting member have been removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.