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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1992
Frederick F Bender, South Lyon, MI (US);
Earl L Watson, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
Upper and lower three-piece hinge assemblies enabling a door to be attached and removed in a precise lateral take-apart manner during a vehicle body assembly line operation. Each of the hinge assemblies each provide a body-half mounting hinge and a door-half sub-assembly. The sub-assembly comprises a link plate and a door-half mounting bracket permanently pined together by a door hinge pin. Prior to removably attaching the door-half sub-assembly to the body-half hinge an installer inserts an abutment peg in a through bore of a bracket horizontal wing. The installer then rotates the link plate about its hinge pin until it engages the peg forming, with the bracket, a wedge-shaped receptacle adapted to slidably receive therein a complementary wedge-shaped foot plate of the body-half hinge. The receptacle seats on the foot plate in a predetermined abutting manner enabling each link plate aperture to be self-aligned with an associated foot plate threaded hole. With the tightening of the upper and lower pairs of take-apart screws in each of their respective foot plate threaded holes the upper and lower hinge assemblies are connected in predetermined engagement . Upon removal of the upper and lower pegs the upper and lower hinge assemblies pivotally support the door on the body in a precise manner.