Edscha Cabrio-verdecksysteme Gmbh

Ed. Scharwachter Gmbh & Co., Fahrzeugtechnik

Theodor Striegl

Franz Haberl

An arrangement for attaching a top storage well cover to a motor vehicle body for a pivotal movement about an axis arranged in the region of a rear edge of a top storage well opening between closed and open positions, with the arrangement including two articulated devices spaced from each other in a direction transverse to a longitudinal extent of the vehicle and each including two articulated arms, which form an articulated lever parallelogram, support axles for pivotally attaching the two articulated arms to the storage well cover and to the vehicle body, and a linkage for displacement of one of support axles of at least one arm during the pivotal movement of the cover.

Arrangement for attachment of a top storage well cover

A top storage well for a convertible motor vehicle, which includes a substantially U-shaped body having vertically extending front and rear walls and a substantially horizontally extending floor, and bellows formed of a water-proof flexible material and connectable with the floor and the rear wall, with a floor section of a transverse body section, which connects two legs of the U-shaped body, and a movable middle wall portion of the rear wall being together raisable upward for increasing and adjoining trunk space, and with the bellows being attached to both small sides of the floor section to the middle wall portion of the rear wall, and to stationary side sections of the body floor.

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Gangkofen, Germany

Theodor Striegl