Automobile roof with pivotable vent panel

US3955848A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Webasto-Werk W. Baier KG

Inventors

• Alfons Lutz · Grafing, DE
• Horst Bienert · Gauting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 19, 1974
• Grant date: May 11, 1976
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/1642
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An upwardly pivotable vent panel assembly as part of an automobile roof structure in which the horizontal pivot connection is defined by a pair of insertion tongues on the forward end of the vent panel engaging matching slots in a vertical wall portion of the roof, the pivot connection being readily disengageable and the lifting linkage being releasable for complete removal of the panel.