Method and apparatus for body panel attachment
CA 1298071 C · Owner: Utica Enterprises, Inc. · Inventors: Dacey, Ernest Alfred Jr.
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A pad forming device for forming attachment pads in an automotive inner body panel element to provide for the attachment of an outer body panel to the inner body panel. The outer body panel must be attached at a precise location and the inner body panel element is not as precisely positioned. The device has one or more fixed anvils which are positioned at a predetermined position adjacent to, but spaced from the inner body panel, element, the magnitude of such spacing varying with the position of the inner body panel element. Movable floating locators that are disposed on opposite sides of each fixed anvil are advanced toward the inner body panel element until they make contact therewith at …
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- Granted March 31, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 31, 2009.
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