Patent EP-0218020-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KLOPPE HERBERT
IPC: B60J7/047
Filed: 1986-07-16
Abstract: 1. A knock-out sliding roof for motor vehicles, with a first front cover member (1) and further laterally guided cover members (2, 3, 4, 5) displaceable contrary to the direction of travel, with guide members (25) which are movable along a slide rail (7) and which are provided on one side with slide elements and on the other side with guide elements, it being possible for the cover members (1 to 5) to be knocked out upwards in the manner of blinds by their rear edges by way of sliding members (32, 20) which engage on a slide block (31) or the guide members (25) of the cover members (2 to 5) and for the further cover members (2 to 5) to be slid together towards the rear in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle by way of the sliding members (20) so as to form a stack in order to open the roof opening, the actuating device being constructed in the form of a threaded spindle (12) which engages on all the sliding members (32, 20), and a locking mechanism (16) being arranged in conjunction with control bars (17), characterized in that - the slide rail (7) is constructed in such a way that the threaded spindle (12) is fitted therein and the locking mechanism (16) is disposed and secured on one side of the slide rail (7) and the control bars (17) are disposed and secured on the other side thereof, and - separately movable free-running tongues (21) are provided in the further sliding members (20) other than in the first sliding member (32), and - the first sliding member (32) and the free-running tongues (21) engage with the thread of the threaded spindle (12) by way of vertical entrainment pins (33 and 22 respectively) and the first sliding member (32) moves a knock-out member (35) along by way of a catching hook (39) for a specific distance, there being provided in the knock-out member (35) a slide block pin (36) and a locking pin (37) which cooperate with a guide slot (38) and a locking slot (45) in the slide block (31) connected to the first cover member (1), - the knock-out member (35) actuating the first sliding bar (42) of the locking mechanism (16) by way of a pin-slot connexion and thus not yet moving the further sliding bars (43), as a result of which, when the first cover member (1) is knocked out, locks (41) keep the further cover members (2 to 5) locked and only at the end of the slot are the locks (41) displaced and release the locking of the further cover members (2 to 5), after which the catching hook (39) is raised off the knock-out member (35) by way of a pin and the further sliding members (20) are jointly moved by the abutting of their free-running tongues (21), as a result of which guide pins (26) in the front horizontal area and in succession in the downwardly inclined area move from guide slots (27) angled downwards in the guide members (25), in which case knock-out bolts (28) are raised by curved paths on the control bars (17), the guide members (25) are forced upwards by the guide pins (26) in the guide slots (27) and in this way the further cover members (2 to 5) are knocked out upwards by their rear edges in the manner of blinds and are locked in their knocked-out position by the knock-out bolts (28) falling in again.