Jac Products, Inc.

Jac Products Deutschland Gmbh

Jac Products Europe Gmbh

Reinhold Rothstein

Klaus Kolodziej

Frank Böcker

Jörg Schmitz

Gregor Nerling

Rainer Steffens

Dirk Hoffmann

Filippo Adamo

Ander Meiß

A vehicle article carrier system for clamping a roof rail to a roof of a vehicle. The system enables a variation in the spacing between an outer layer of the roof and an underlying roof structure to be taken up when clamping a roof rail to the vehicle roof without causing deformation of the outer layer of the vehicle roof.

Device for mounting attachment externally supporting against body outer panel of vehicle body on body structure

A roof rail (,), which consists of a side rail (,) and support legs (,). The support legs (,) engage a roof channel (,), which is otherwise closed off by a cover strip (,). The support legs are connected to adaptors (,) at the bottom surface. The connection between the adaptors (,) and the vehicle roof (,) is established by means of threaded bolts (,) which are fastened to the adaptors (,) by means of a threaded portion (,) and to the vehicle roof (,) by means of a second threaded portion (,) with the use of threaded nuts. Each support leg (,) is connected to each respective adaptor in such a manner that it can be loosened, while a bolt (,) with its threaded shaft (,) is screwed into the support leg (,). Here, the bolt head (,) is seated in the adaptor (,) and includes a circular groove (,), one end of which is engaged by a threaded bolt (,) for the purpose of securing it in an axial direction, and where the bolt (,) is extended transversely to the bolt (,).

Roof rail for vehicles

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Wuppertal, Germany

Reinhold Rothstein