Rockwell-golde G.m.b.h.

Peter Schafer

Rainer Grimm

Horst Bohm

Heinz Blankenburg

Harald Kollner

Wilhelm Scherf

Friedrich Herrmann

Fritz Marr

A cable guide for automobile sliding roofs having two lateral guide components (9), which together displaceably guide the guide shoes (7,8) of a sliding panel, and one forward guide component (10), adjoining the two lateral guide components. To achieve a simplified construction which can be manufactured and installed at low cost while simultaneously avoiding butt joints in the region of the cable guide channels which are (19,10) continuous through all three guide components, all three guide components (9,10) have an identical cross-sectional shape and are formed from a single-piece guide frame (11).

Cable guide for sliding roofs of motor vehicles

In a pane guide for a sliding window capable of being lowered into the window shaft (8) of an automobile, the windowpane (1) is laterally guided on windowframe components (4,5), in which back-cut guide channels (18,18') are provided, in which slide elements (23,23') are displaceably guided. The slide elements are connected with the windowpane (1), covering the windowframe components on the outer side of the vehicle, by carrier elements (19 to 22). Due to the mounting of the windowpane outside the windowframe, a projectionless lateral glazing of an automobile is made possible. At the lower end of at least one of the lateral windowframe components (4,5), the guide tube (11, 11') of a cable/tube window winder is connected in alignment with the guide channel (18, 18'). The threaded cable (12, 12') of the window winder extends into the guide channel (18, 18') and is fixed at least to one of the slide elements (19 to 22) situated therein. In this manner a low overall height of the windowshaft is achieved, so that the windowpane and the window shaft can have approximately the same height. With the windowpane (1) is associated a seal (46) disposed on the windowframe (4 to 7), which seal is either continually in sealing contact with the windowpane or, by a movable mounting of the seal or of the windowpane, is arranged so that it can be pressed automatically onto the windowpane (1).

Pane guide for a sliding window capable of being lowered into the window

A sliding roof for automobiles, comprising a raisable lid associated with a roof opening, which lid is pivotally journalled in the region of its forward edge about a horizontal axis oriented transversely to the direction of travel, is supported slidably on lateral guide rails on the forward third of its length and thereby can be displaced partly over the rear, fixed roof surface in its raised position while maintaining its raised angle, a raising device consisting of a threaded telescopic device participating displacements being provided in the region of the support on each side of the lid, the threaded nut of which is connected rotationally locked with a pinion coaxial therewith, which is in engagement with a threaded cable, journalled displaceably in tension and compression transmitting manner, of a drive device.

Sliding roof for automobiles

The window winder for a slidable window, especially a window capable of being lowered into the window shaft of an automobile, has a threaded cable displaceably guided in a tension resistant and compression resistant manner in a guide tube. The threaded cable engages, in a two part drive casing, a drive pinion which is non-rotatably keyed to a drive shaft journalled in the two half casing of a gear wheel drive equipped with a drag spring brake. The threaded cable is directly or indirectly connected to the window by one or more entraining devices fixed to the cable and penetrating through a longitudinal slit in the guide tube. The guide tube is a slit metal tube in the region of the path of movement of the entraining devices and elsewhere is a plastic tube connected to the drive casing and the metal tube in a non-displacing, non-rotatable manner by means of sleeves injection molded onto the plastic tube. The two parts of the drive casing are injection molded from plastic material and their parting plane is situated outside the threaded cable passing through the casing and outside the drive pinion between the drive pinion and the drag spring barke. The guide duct guides the threaded cable substantially in alignment with the internal surface of the guide tube and open towards the drive pinion and the parting plane is disposed in one casing part and the sleeves which receive the guide tube are formed integrally with the casing part.

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Maintal, Germany

Peter Schafer