Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Hadi K Akeel

Donald S Bartlett

Mitchell Choly

Theodore J Beaulieu

An apparatus for opening and closing a vehicle door as a vehicle body is being conveyed through a paint booth and having a primary arm pivotally mounted on a carriage and supporting a secondary arm for seizing and releasing the vehicle door under the control of a link, the apparatus being characterized in that the pivotal connections interconnecting the primary arm and the link to the secondary arm and to the carriage are located in positions which allow the primary and secondary arms to be positioned in substantially parallel relationship adjacent the carriage when the apparatus assumes a stored position.

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Sterling Heights, MI, United States of America

Hadi K Akeel