Ford Motor Company Limited

Hermann Haesters

Siegfried Lorenz

Erich Altdorf

Bernd Forsting

The invention relates to a ventilation arrangement for a hinged motor vehicle tailgate, the arrangement having air-inlet openings disposed in the region of a tailgate frame member and air-outlet openings discharging into the gap between the tailgate and the surrounding opening in the bodywork. An upper and/or lateral tailgate frame member is provided with a recessed portion which extends along an edge of the frame member. An air guiding insert is disposed within the recessed portion an air-guiding insert of which the inner contour is shaped to fit within the recessed portion and of which the outer contour lies flush with the tailgate frame member and is engageable by the door seal.

Ventilation arrangement for a tailgate

An evaporator is fabricated from metal pipes bundled together by cooling fins. The pipes have their ends embedded in a curable plastic securing them to a plastic collecting box. The collecting box has a distributing section with a plurality of injection orifices and return orifices flowing respectively into injection chambers and return flow chambers. The injection chambers merge into an injection collecting chamber and the return flow chambers merge into a return collecting chamber. A plastic connecting section has an integral injection pipe and return pipe and is connected to the distributor pipe by a tongue and groove connection sealably secured together by a curable plastic. The injection pipe and return flow pipe are in fluid communication with the injection collecting chamber and return collecting chamber respectively.

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Pulheim, Germany

Hermann Haesters