Vehicle body deck lid operating system

• US 3,343,303 A
• Filed: 07/27/1965
• Issued: 09/26/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wanlass, Bert R.
• Original Assignee: Wanlass, Bert R.
• Inventors: Wanlass, Bert R.
• Application Number:
  US04/475,184
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• US Class Current: 49/280
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/20 for assisting final closing or for initiating opening
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/619 using flexible or rigid rack-and-pinion arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/22 Locks
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/24 using lost motion
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/434 Electromotors; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/462 Electromagnets
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/722 Racks
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/11 Manual wing operation
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/548 Trunk lids
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1062 Spring retracted

Claims

1. IN A VEHICLE BODY HAVING A CLOSURE MEMBER MOVABLE BETWEEN FULLY OPEN AND FULLY CLOSED POSITIONS RELATIVE TO A BODY MEMBER, AND COOPERABLE LATCH AND STRIKER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID MEMBERS TO BE INTERENGAGEABLE IN THE FULLY CLOSED POSITION OF SAID CLOSURE MEMBER TO HOLD SAID CLOSURE MEMBER THEREIN, CLOSURE PULLDOWN MEANS COMPRISING, GRAPNEL HOOK MEANS, MEANS MOUNTING SAID GRAPNEL HOOK MEANS ON ONE OF SAID MEMBERS FOR BODILY MOVEMENT BETWEEN EXTENDED AND RETRACTED POSITIONS, KEEPER MEANS ON THE OTHER OF SAID MEMBERS, SAID GRAPNEL HOOK MEANS IN THE EXTENDED POSITION THEREOF BEING ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID KEEPER MEANS WHEN SAID CLOSURE MEMBER IS MOVED TO A PARTIALLY OPEN POSITION THEREOF, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID MOVEMENT OF SAID CLOSURE MEMBER TO THE PARTIALLY OPEN POSITION THEREOF FOR ENGAGING SAID GRAPNEL HOOK MEANS WITH SAID KEEPER MEANS AND MOVING SAID GRAPNEL HOOK MEANS FROM THE EXTENDED TO THE RETRACTED POSITION THEREOF THEREBY TO MOVE SAID CLOSURE MEMBER FROM THE PARTIALLY OPEN TO THE FULLY CLOSED POSITION THEREOF FOR INTERENGAGEMENT OF SAID LATCH AND STRIKER MEANS.