Patent ID: 6606778
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: B60J,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of installing a windshield on a frontal surface of an automotive vehicle body, wherein said frontal surface is defined partly by two front pillars bounding two side edges and an opening that is to be covered by the windshield, said method comprising:(a) clamping a temporary guide to each front pillar on the vehicle body at predetermined distances from frontal surface side edges and magnetically clamping each temporary guide to a front pillar on the vehicle body, the magnetic clamping preventing rotation of each temporary guide in relation to its associated front pillar, (b) lowering the windshield onto the frontal surface of the vehicle body so that side edges of the windshield have edge engagement with said temporary guides, whereby the windshield is oriented with respect to the side edges of said frontal surface, and (c) unclamping said temporary guides from the front pillars after lowering the windshield onto the frontal surface of the vehicle body.