Device for mounting the guide sleeve of a drive cable for a sliding top of an automobile roof

US4175784A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Webasto-Werk W. Baier GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Walter Schatzler · Gauting, DE
• Erich Handler · Starnberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 12, 1978
• Grant date: Nov 27, 1979
• Expiry date: Jul 12, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/057
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A sliding panel device for a cutout in a vehicle body panel, such as a sliding top of an automobile roof, of the type having a sliding panel that is movable between open and closed positions, a headliner displaceable between open and closed positions, a drive cable attached to the sliding panel for displacing the sliding panel and a stationary cantilevered guide for slidably guiding the movement of the cable is improved by the provision of a support attached to the headliner for supporting the cantilevered end of the stationary guide, the support being slidably engageable therewith. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the support supports the guide at at least a pushed-back open position thereof. Furthermore, according to one preferred embodiment the support is a tubular bearing member which surrounds the guide with a sliding seat, while in another preferred embodiment the support is constituted by a longitudinal groove in the top side of the headliner, at least one sliding block being connected to the guide and engaging this groove.