Vehicle vinyl top and top retainer means
CA 1105965 A · Owner: General Motors Corporation · Inventors: Swindlehurst, Carl P.; Navarro, Sam J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Vinyl top attachment comprising a metallic retainer strip fastened in a predetermined location to a body panel. The periphery of the top material is curled around the edge of and is tucked under a support portion of the retainer strip. The top material is fastened in this position by plastic finish lace having gripping fingers which cooperate with a resilient lip underlying the support portion of the retainer strip to entrap the edge of the top material therebetween.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted July 28, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 28, 1998.
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