Mark W Robbins

US Patent:

53759010, Dec 27, 1994

Filed:

Oct 22, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/141392

Inventors:

Roy P. Agosta - Reseda CA
Mark R. Robbins - Pacific Palisades CA

Assignee:

Robbins Auto Top Company, Inc. - Santa Monica CA

International Classification:

B60J 712

US Classification:

29614614

Abstract:

A convertible top for an automobile includes a rear window of glass or the like connected to the top by a track linkage adapted to guide the rear window between deployed and stored positions as the top is raised and lowered. The convertible top comprises a fold-down frame supporting a fabric top material, and defining a rear panel with a rear window opening therein. The rear window has a lower margin hingedly connected to the rear panel along a lower edge of the rear window opening. The track linkage includes a pair of track members disposed at the laterally opposite side edges of the rear window and slidably coupled to the rear panel to permit pivoting movement of the rear window within a plane which is independent of the rear panel as the convertible top is raised and lowered.