Patent GB-517669-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vehicle bodies
IPC: B60R13/07
Filed: 1938-08-03
Abstract: 517,669. Vehicle bodies. BUDD MANUFACTURING CO., E. G. Aug. 3, 1938, No. 22914. Convention date, Aug. 3, 1937. [Class 108 (i)] A vehicle-body consists of side and end walls or stampings and a roof panel or stamping, upwardly-facing channel-section portions on the two side walls and at least one end wall being adapted to nest with and to be secured to similar portions on the two side margins and at least one end margin of the roof panel, so that the final assembly of the roof and body completes a drip moulding structure along at least three margins of the roof panel. In the closed delivery-truck type of body shown in Fig. 1, having two side doors and a rear door, the top margin of the front wall extending between the side door openings comprises a transverse panel 12 formed with a rabbet 13, Fig. 4, for receiving the top edge of the windscreen 14, with an upwardly-facing angle-portion 18, and with a downwardlyextending flange to which an inner finish panel 15 is spot-welded. Over the side door openings each side wall terminates in a channel-shaped header 19, Fig. 6, formed with an upwardly-facing angle-portion 2.0 in alignment with a similar portion 22, Fig. 5, formed on the upper margin of the side panel 21. The upper margin of the rear wall is formed by an angular header 23, Fig. 7, having an upwardly-facing angle-portion 2'4. The roof panel 25, consisting of one or more stampings, is formed with a peripheral upwardlyfacing channel 26, Fig. 7, adapted to nest in the upwardly-facing portions 18, 20, 22, 24 and be spot-welded thereto, the engaging parts constituting a drip-channel extending around the roof. The upper parts of the outer arms of the angle-portions may be bent over the adjacent outer flange of the roof. An opening 28, Fig. 7a, is provided in the drip-channel forwardly of the front post panel 11 so that water may drain into a downwardly-inclined channel 29 on the front post, while at the points 30, Fig. 1, where the drip-channel above the rear door meets each side channel, these channels are both downwardlyinclined and spaced slightly to permit drainage. When applied to a closed cab type of body, Figs. 9, 10, the drip-channel between the roof and side and end walls terminates in a downwardlyinclined portion 32 at the rear end of which the outer surfaces of the panel 33 and roof 25 are flush with one another being connected by inwardly-extending inter-nesting channels 34, 35. In another construction of the type of body shown in Fig. 1, the drip-channel is omitted in the joint between the front wall and the roof, which are connected by inwardly-extending flanges, and the joint may be hidden by a metal moulding inserted between the flanges, while, in the side header region over the side door opening and in the joint over the rear door opening, the angular header 42,'Fig. 14, has ah upwardlyextending flange to which is attached a separate drip-channel strip 43 in which nests the channel portion on the roof 25. In a further construction the front lateral portions of the roof and of the channel thereon extend downwardly to engage downwardly-extending parts on the angle-portion of the front wall, the downturned ends of the drip-channel thus formed meeting and draining into the side drip-channels. In a modification of the last construction the front drip-channel terminates at the sides of the windscreen opening and the joint between the latter opening and the adjacent door opening connecting the roof and front panel may be a simple lap joint.