Pivoting and sliding window

• US 4,104,827 A
• Filed: 02/09/1977
• Issued: 08/08/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault
• Original Assignee: Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault
• Inventors: Opron, Robert, Guelton, Claude, Bourguignon, Philippe
• Primary Examiner(s): Kannan, Philip C.
• Application Number:
  US05/767,159
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 49/41, 49/39, 49/385, 49/371, 49/48, 49/362, 160/186, 160/187
• US Class Current: 49/385
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/14 with pivotal or rotary movement
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/00 Suspension arrangements for wings arrangements of wings not characterised by the construction of the supporting means E06B3/32
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows

Abstract

A window, especially for an automobile body, which consists of two sliding glass sections pivoting about a common superior axis in such manner as to constitute a total glass surface, somewhere between a quarter circle and a semi-circle in form, limited above by the straight sides of the body. The sections are operated by means of a locking catch or by means of a toothed gear control mechanism.

Claims

1. A window assembly, especially for automobile bodies, comprising a sliding glass window mounted in an automobile body, in the shape of a sector, wherein the window comprises first and second glass sectors connected by pivot means for movement of said first and said second glass sectors about a common axis situated in the angle formed by the junction of the straight sides of the sectors.

2. The window assembly of claim 1, wherein said glass sectors cover, in closed position, a total area configuration between a quarter circle and a semi-circle.

3. The window assembly of claim 2, wherein said first and said second glass sectors have identical areas and partially overlap one another in the closed position, approximately along the bisector of the angle formed by the remote straight sides of said first and said second glass sectors.

4. The window assembly of claim 1, wherein said pivot means traverses at least one of said first and second glass sectors.

5. The window assembly of claim 4, wherein one extremity of said pivot means is integral with an upper frame of the window assembly by means of a bracket member.

6. The window assembly of claim 1, which further comprises a track extending along the length of a curved edge of the window sectors wherein at least one of said first and said second glass sectors pivots about said common axis and slides on said curved edge.

7. The window assembly of claim 6, wherein one of said first and said second said glass sectors is provided with a locking catch for moving said one of said first and said second glass sectors and for holding said one of said first and said second glass sectors in closed position.

8. The window assembly of claim 7, wherein said track includes a plurality of slots into which said locking catch is securable.

9. The window assembly of claim 6, wherein said first and second glass sectors are movable and manipulable by a control mechanism mounted a door frame approximately in the middle of said curved edge of the window sectors, said control mechanism comprising first and second gears mounted on a common shaft such that each of said first and said second gears engages a respective toothed track affixed to the edge of the curved side of the corresponding sector such that the selection of one of said first and said second gears by means of a locking device and rotation of said common shaft by means of a knob makes it possible, in a first selection position, to rotate one of said first and said second sectors in one direction and, in a second selection position, to rotate the other of said first and said second glass sectors in the direction opposite to said one direction, by means of an intermediate gear.

10. The window assembly of claim 9, which further comprises means for retaining said knob in one of said first and said second selection positions.

11. The window assembly of claim 10, wherein said means for retaining said knob comprises a fixed box integral with said door frame and means connected to said knob engageable with said fixed box.