Abstract: A sealing arrangement for an automotive body closure such as a sliding roof comprises a sealing member including a tubular sealing portion and a shorter reservoir portion. The two portions are filled with hydraulic fluid and communicate with one another. When the closure member is closed, the sealing portion is not under pressure and offers little resistance to the movement of the closure member. After closing, an actuator such as a crank is retracted and in so doing acts through a rack and pinion on an actuating device which compresses the reservoir portion and thus pressurizes the sealing member to improve the sealing of the joint.

Abstract: A composite sandwich formed by enclosing a central resilient layer of a soft compressible material between two plate-shaped parts of foamable synthetic material and inserting the assembly into a cavity formed from two shells of prefabricated sheet metal. The resultant composite is subjected to a heat treatment for about 10 minutes at about 200.degree. C. so that the foamable material expands to fill the cavity.

Abstract: A fastening device for holding leads, wires, carpets, panelling and the like to a structure. The fastening device consists of a holder fixed to the structure with a holding bracket set off from the surface of the structure. A flexible terminal clamp is engageable with the holding bracket.

Abstract: In a motor vehicle body, a rigidly fastened roof (10) of composite material rests upon a frame rigid with the body as a complete prefabricated component. The roof (10) is formed as a composite component which is produced in a hot pressing process and is formed by an air-tight and rain-proof outer layer (11), an intermediate structural layer (12) and a semi-rigid, porous inner layer (13) with a padding and/or decorative layer (14). The continuous edge around the roof is shaped by hot pressing deformation of all the layers to form joining flange areas of different cross-sections which are joined to the areas of the frame rigid with the body by a permanently resilient, vibration-absorbing adhesive bead and by additional screw connections at strategic points.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding roof for a motor vehicle in which a plurality of louvre-like roof sections 1, 2a, 2b and 3 are provided for closing the roof opening. An actuating device is operative when first actuated to tilt the roof sections by raising their rear edges so as to provide a ventilation position. Upon further operation of the actuating device, the roof sections move backwards and stack in their tilted up position (FIGS. 1, 1a and 1b).In an alternative embodiment, the front roof section is hinged and remains in position to act as a draft reflector while the remaining roof sections slide and stack at the rear of the roof opening. (FIG.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor car body with concealed drip moulding arrangement, whereby a rain channel formed from a fold in the edge of a roof-plate, possibly connected with a part of an internal and/or external side wall plate is covered in the side view by the edge of an adjacent pivotable door or a fixed cover.