Patents Assigned to Dura Automotive Hardware Division of Wickes Manufacturing Company
  • Patent number: 4819377
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a regulator for moving a window in a vehicle door ccessively substantially vertically and horizontally and vice versa. In other words, once the window is closed vertically the lower edge may be moved outwardly horizontally to become more flush with the outside surface of the door of the vehicle. The regulator comprises a closed loop of cable wrapped about a reversible driving drum and having a vertical reach which is attached to a pulley connected to the carrier for the window. This pulley is provided with a pair of diametrically opposite cam follower pins or rollers that are guided in a vertical slot parallel to the vertical reach of cable, which slot has a bifurcated or Y-shaped pair of slots at its upper end for rotating the pulley up to about 180.degree. when the pulley reaches the "Y" and the cable means continues to pull.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Dura Automotive Hardware Division of Wickes Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Barney J. Bauer, William E. Buehler