Patent · US Expired

Window which can be fastened in a folding top by means of a zipper, and a process for exchanging a surface section

US5271655A · kind A · utility

17Cited by

2References

4Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Wilfried Ball · Dingolfing, DE
Heinz Schonenbach · Remscheid, DE
Ludwig Bolte · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
Michael Stahmer · Munich, DE
Horst Karl · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 8, 1991
Grant date	Dec 21, 1993
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 8, 2011

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S160/18
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A window 3 of the folding top of a convertible, which consists of a transparent flexible plastic material, on its interior side, is provided with a surrounding zipper 2 which, by means of a holding strip 4 and 5, is undetachably fastened to the interior side of a top covering 1 and to the window 3. Furthermore, it is provided on its exterior side with a U-shaped edge bordering 8 made of a rubber-elastic material which, in the installed condition of the window 3, rests sealingly against the edge of the window opening 1' of the top covering 1.

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