Vehicle window and regulator assembly

• US 3,334,443 A
• Filed: 09/30/1965
• Issued: 08/08/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dura Corporation
• Original Assignee: Norman A. Rohrbacher, Rudolph Eskra
• Inventors: Eskra, Rudolph, Rohrbacher, Norman A.
• Application Number:
  US04/491,729
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• US Class Current: 49/349
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 11/53 for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by horizontal movement
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18832 including flexible drive connector [e.g., belt, chain, strand, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2186 Gear casings

Claims

2. A DEVICE OF THE CLASS DESCRIBED COMPRISING A PREFABRICATED UNIT FOR INSTALLATION IN A VEHICLE BODY, SAID UNIT INCLUDING A HOUSING, MEANS ON SAID HOUSING FOR ATTACHING SAME TO A VEHICLE BODY, A HORIZONTAL GUIDE FIXEDLY MOUNTED WITHIN SAID HOUSING, A WINDOW PANEL SHIFTABLE IN AND OUT OF SAID HOUSING, A FRAME FOR SAID WINDOW PANEL, GUIDE DEVICES CARRIED BY SAID FRAME WITH IN SAID HOUSING AND ENGAGED IN SAID GUIDE FOR GUIDING THE LINEAR MOVEMENT OF SAID WINDOW FRAME, REGULATOR MECHANISM WITHIN SAID HOUSING FOR IMPARTING MOVEMENT TO SAID WINDOW FRAME, SAID MECHANISM COMPRISING A RIGIDLY FIXED LONGITUDINAL SLOTTED TUBE DISPOSED WHOLLY WITHIN SAID HOUSING AND HAVING TWO PORTIONS DISPOSED ANGULARLY WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER, A FLEXIBLE ACTUATING CABLE SHIFTABLE TRANSLATORILY IN SAID TUBE, SAID ACTUATING CABLE BEING CONSTRUCTED TO BE DRIVINGLY ENGAGED BY A PINION, AN OPERATIVE CONNECTION BETWEEN ONE END PORTION OF SAID ACTUATING CABLE AND SAID WINDOW PANEL FRAME WHEREBY SHIFTING MOVEMENT OF SAID CABLE IMPARTS CORRESPONDING WINDOW PANEL MOVEMENT, A PINION WITHIN SAID HOUSING OPERATIVELY ENGAGING SAID CABLE, MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID PINION IN ONE DIRECTION OR THE OTHER, THE OPPOSITE END PORTION OF SAID CABLE EXTENSIBLE OUTSIDE OF SAID HOUSING, AND MEANS FOR ENCLOSING AND PROTECTING SAID EXTENSIBLE PORTION OF SAID CABLE ON THE OUTSIDE OF SAID HOUSING.