Guiding and sealing systems for movable windows of automobile doors

• US 4,970,828 A
• Filed: 12/27/1989
• Issued: 11/20/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Establissements Mesnel
• Original Assignee: Establissements Mesnel
• Inventors: Mesnel, Gerard, Mesnel, Francois
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Gary L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Milano, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US07/457,324
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• Field of Search: 49/374, 49/375, 49/441, 49/440, 49/502
• US Class Current: 493/74
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/32 using integral U-shaped retainers
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/79 for flush-glass windows, i.e. for windows flush with the vehicle body or the window frame

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a system for the guiding and sealing of a movable window of an automobile door, especially of a flush window, comprising a profiled section (7) made from a reinforced elastomer, a first part (9) of which is capable of being secured to the window frame, whereas a second part (10) ensures the guiding and sealing of the movable window (4). According to the disclosure, a rectilinear part of the profiled section, adjacent to the center pillar of the body, is equipped with a slide (13), whereas the movable window has, on the lateral part of its outer face adjacent to the center pillar, at least at the upper part of this face, a guide shoe (12) engaged in this slide (13) and capable of sliding in this slide during the entire displacement of the movable window.

Claims

1. System for the guiding and sealing of a movable window of an automobile door, especially of a flush window, comprising a profiled section (7) made from a reinforced elastomer, a first part (9) having means for securement to the window frame, whereas a second part (10) ensures the guiding and sealing of the movable window (4), wherein a rectilinear part of the profiled section, adjacent to a center pillar (6) of the body, is equipped with a slide (13) which has a flange (14) retained in grooves (15a, 15b) in the part (10) of the profiled section, wherein the movable window has mounted thereto, on the lateral part of its outer face adjacent to the center pillar, at least at the upper part of this face, a guide shoe (12), engaged in the slide (13),the shapes of the shoe and the slide being such that the shoe is capable of sliding in this slide during the entire displacement of the movable window while being held therein.

2. System according to claim 1, wherein the slide (13) has two parallel branches (16, 17) between which the shoe (12) is engaged.

3. System according to claim 2, wherein a curved end of one (16) of said branches is engaged in a lateral groove (18) in the shoe (12), wherein the other branch (17) corresponds in shape to the side of the shoe (12).