Window mount for motor-vehicle soft top
AssigneeParat Automotive Schonenbach GmbH + Co. KG
InventorsMartin Windpassinger, Heinrich Krieg
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Abstract
A motor-vehicle soft top has a soft-top outer material having an inner edge, an outside face, and an inside face. A glass pane has an outer edge extending along the pane inner edge, an outside face, and an inside face. The inner material edge and outer pane edge overlap each other. A cast plastic frame element extends along the material inner edge and has an outside face bonded to the inside face of the material inner edge. The profile is generally S- or Z-section, having an inside flange carrying the outer pane edge, an outside flange, and a web extending between the flanges. An adhesive strip between an outside face of the inside flange and the inside face of the outer pane edge secures the pane in place.
Claims11
A motor-vehicle soft top comprising:
- a soft-top outer material having an inner material edge, an outside material face, and an inside material face;
- a glass pane having an outer pane edge extending along and overlapping the material inner edge, an outside pane face, and an inside pane face;
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- a cast plastic frame element extending along the material inner edge and having an outside frame face bonded to the inside material face at the material inner edge and directly engaging the inside pane face and a portion extending between and bonded to the outside face of the inner material edge and the inside face of the outer pane edge.
A motor-vehicle soft top comprising:
- a soft-top outer material having an inner material edge, an outside material face, and an inside material face;
- a glass pane having an outer pane edge extending along and overlapping the material inner edge, an outside pane face, and an inside pane face;
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- a cast plastic frame element extending along the material inner edge and having an outside frame face bonded to the inside material face at the material inner edge and directly engaging the inside pane face, the frame element being generally of S- or Z-section, having an inside flange carrying the outer pane edge, an outside flange, and a web extending between the flanges.
A motor-vehicle soft top comprising:
- a soft-top outer material having an inner material edge, an outside material face, and an inside material face;
- a glass pane having an outer pane edge extending along and overlapping the material inner edge, an outside pane face, and an inside pane face;
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- a cast plastic frame element extending along the material inner edge and having an outside frame face bonded to the inside material face at the material inner edge and directly engaging the inside pane face, the frame element extending into a space between the pane inner face and the material outer face at the edges and being adhered thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.