Wilhelm Karmann Gmbh

Valmet Automotive Oy

Werner Schnieder

Udo Heselhaus

Karl Rothe

Klaus Russke

Joachim Maaß

A convertible vehicle including a folding top frame constructed in mirror-image fashion to a longitudinal median plane of the vehicle and having a rear folding top clamping collar. The folding top clamping collar can be shifted jointly with a folding top about a main bearing fastened to the car body and stowed in a rear folding top compartment. The flexible roof skin has, in the rear region, a rear window which extends above the folding top clamping collar and can be detached in the region of the lower transverse side edge from the folding top clamping collar. The rear window is supported in the closed position with its lower transverse side edge directly above and on the folding top clamping collar. A control assembly is linked to the frame encompassing the rear window in U-shaped fashion such that the frame with the rear window can be lifted from the folding top clamping collar during a movement of the folding top and shifted to a distance and an angle relative to the folding top clamping collar.

Convertible vehicle

A convertible vehicle has a folding top frame ( ) with a rear folding top clamping collar ( ), which is constructed in mirror image fashion to the longitudinal median plane ( ) of the vehicle. By being shifted about a main bearing ( ) attached to the car body, a folding top ( ) can be stowed in or returned from a rear folding top compartment ( ). The flexible roof skin ( ) has in the rear region particularly a dimensionally stable rear window ( ) with an essentially rectangular circumferential contour, which extends above the folding top clamping collar ( ). Only in the region of the upper transverse side edge ( ) as well as of its two longitudinal side edges ( ) is the dimensionally stable rear window ( ) provided with a connection taking hold of the flexible roof skin ( ). A lower transverse side edge ( ) of the rear window ( ) is supported in the closed position of the folding top ( ) directly from above on the folding top clamping collar ( ) in a detachable connecting engagement.

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Georgsmarienhuette, Germany

Werner Schnieder