Patent ID: 6913306

Claim:
A folding vehicle roof particularly for passenger cars, comprising front center and rear roof parts ( 3 , 4 , 5 ), which are supported so as to be movable relative to one another and relative to a support base ( 1 ), one of said roof parts ( 4 ) forming a support element for an adjacent follower one of said roof parts ( 3 ), said support element ( 4 ) being supported on said support base ( 1 ) and said follower roof part ( 3 ) being supported on said support element ( 4 ), each of said support element ( 4 ) and said follower roof part ( 3 ) being supported by a four-link operating mechanism ( 10 , 17 ), a drive means ( 37 ) for actuating a drive arm ( 13 ) of the four-link operating mechanism ( 10 ) of said support element ( 4 ) said drive arm is connected to a transfer arm ( 18 ) of the four-link operating mechanism ( 17 ) of said follower roof part ( 3 ) by a connecting linkage, said connecting linkage being in the form of a parallelogram linkage including links ( 29 , 30 ) having connecting points ( 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ) to the drive arm ( 13 ) and to the transfer arm ( 18 ) defined by the corner points of congruent connecting triangles defined at connecting points ( 15 , 20 ) on the support element ( 4 ) of the drive arm ( 13 ) and the transfer arm ( 18 ).