Webasto-werk W. Baier Kg

Alfons Lutz

Hans Jardin

Horst Bienert

An automobile sliding roof structure in which a transparent sliding roof panel is associated with an independently retractable opaque canopy panel and where the vertical gap between the roof panel and the roof frame is covered by a U-shaped shutter, moving with the roof panel, but not pivoting with the latter, and by a transverse stationary shutter at the rear of the opening, while skirt portions extending downwardly from the roof panel frame close the gaps between the two shutter elements and the roof panel.

Automobile sliding roof with transparent panel and shutter

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.

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Emmering, Germany

Alfons Lutz