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Parat Automotive Schonenbach Gmbh + Co. Kg

Heinrich Krieg

Martin Windpassinger

Heinz Sch&ouml;nenbach

A motor-vehicle soft top has a soft-top outer material having an inner edge, an outside face, and an inside face. A glass pane has an outer edge extending along the pane inner edge, an outside face, and an inside face. The inner material edge and outer pane edge overlap each other. A cast plastic frame element extends along the material inner edge and has an outside face bonded to the inside face of the material inner edge. The profile is generally S- or Z-section, having an inside flange carrying the outer pane edge, an outside flange, and a web extending between the flanges. An adhesive strip between an outside face of the inside flange and the inside face of the outer pane edge secures the pane in place.

Window mount for motor-vehicle soft top

An outside edge of a glass pane and a coextensive inside edge of a frame are connected together by a glass-mount assembly having a T-section outer seal strip fixed to an inner face of one of the edges and having an inwardly projecting T-leg and a U-section inner seal strip fixed to the other edge and forming an outwardly open groove snugly receiving the T-leg, and a plurality of screw fasteners each having a part bearing outward on the inner seal strip and a shank engaged in the T-leg of the inner seal strip. The outer strip is provided with a plurality of inwardly open threaded sleeves each receiving a respective one of the shanks. These sleeves can be part of one or more metal reinforcement profiles imbedded in the outer strip. Alternately the screw fasteners are self-tapping screws and the outer seal strip is formed with a plurality of inwardly open blind bores each receiving a respective one of the screws. Either way, the inner strip is formed with a plurality of counterbored through-going holes through each of which passes a respective one of the screws. The inner strip can be provided with an imbedded metallic reinforcement through which the screws pass. The outer-strip reinforcement is exposed at an inner face of the T-leg. In addition the inner-strip reinforcement is inwardly exposed and directly engaged by the screw parts, normally screw heads.

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Neureichenau, Germany

Heinrich Krieg