Abstract: A pivotal connection for hoods or covers of motor vehicles which includes a lever arrangement extending between a bracket which is integral with the vehicle and the hood or cover. A control device is provided for controlling a positioning of an edge of the hood or cover which is nearest to a pivot axis of the pivotal connection with a spring being provided for supporting a movement of the hood or cover into an open position. The lever arrangement includes a support arm rotatably mounted on a bracket with the support arm being connected with a track supporting the hood or cover. A link and two arm guide lever are provided so as to form with the track and support arm a four-bar linkage which undergoes a reversal in the course of a pivoting movement of the hood or cover by way of a lever articulated at a free end of the two armed guide lever as well as on the bracket.

Abstract: A motor truck hood opening damper restraint in the form of a vertically mounted, hydraulic hood damper or dash pot which restricts the speed of travel of the hood past an overcenter position, cushions the hood at the stop at the open position and permits unrestricted speed of travel when closing the hood.

Abstract: A hatchback or liftback closure having a frame member and a body member fixedly secured thereto is provided for retrofitting to a motor vehicle. The body member is integrally formed by a roof portion, a window portion depending from the roof portion at an acute angle greater than 60.degree. and having a window therein, a rear deck portion extending from said window portion in a substantially perpendicular manner and side portions extending from said roof portion a predetermined distance and uniformly arced along substantially the entire length thereof to the rear deck portion where both side portions terminate.

Abstract: A styling accessory which comprises a simulated automobile wheel, mounts in the deck of the lid of the storage trunk of an automobile. The underside of the wheel decoration has an integral reservoir for collecting water and a drainage conduit drains collected water from the reservoir. A casing depends from the reservoir and is removably fastened to it to define a storage compartment immediately underneath the reservoir for storage of road safety items such as road flares, booster cables, flat tire sealer and emergency police signal.

Abstract: An opening/closing device for a lid adapted to openably cover an opening of, for example, a trunk of a motorcar does not substantially project into the trunk when the lid is closed. An elongated guide slot extends along a side edge of the opening. A first arm member has one end fixedly secured to the lid and the other end slidably fitted in the guide slot. A second arm member has one end pivotably mounted on the first arm member or on the lid and the other end pivotably mounted on the side edge of the opening. The first and second arm members are adapted to be folded into positions substantially parallel to each other when the lid is closed.

Abstract: A spring-urged hinged strap buckle component on the underside of an automobile trunk lid receives a mating buckle component of an extensible strap wound on a spring reel whose housing is secured to the trunk bed in an out of the way location. The device is essentially rattle-free and very convenient to operate.

Abstract: An automobile rear compartment cover, for use in covering the windowed rear compartment of automotive vehicles such as a hatch back or a station wagon, has an elongated hollow cylinder roller about which is rolled a flexible sheet member and which has a spring loaded pivot device in one end.

Abstract: Many motor bonnets of front motor vehicles produce danger in case of frontal collision, because the bonnet then is pressed like a razor into the passenger compartment of the vehicle. Other bonnets cannot readily be opened because the edge of the cover to be gripped, is not reasonably accessible. This danger and disadvantage are overcome by using hinge members having two points of rotation, especially swan necks, and by using rectilinear recesses accommodating rolls in such a way that the bonnet can easily be manipulated but nevertheless is very safe in case of a frontal collision. For further protection of the user against the bonnet being blown shut, a special spring bias fixing rod element is incorporated into the bonnet.

Abstract: A motor vehicle has an open luggage compartment behind the rearmost seat. The luggage compartment has two transversely spaced side panels which form part of walls surrounding the luggage compartment. A shelf in the form of a flat panel has a first pair of pins laterally projecting, in the opposite directions, from forward end portion of the shelf, and a second pair of pins laterally projecting, in the opposite directions, from rearward end portion of the shelf.

Abstract: A telescopic support that is mounted to the inside surface of the lid of an automobile trunk and that may be extended to the floor of the trunk to maintain the trunk lid in an open position while carrying oversize objects in the trunk.

Abstract: A trunk accessory for a motor vehicle wherein at least a pair of anchors are respectively secured to the floor and closure of a trunk, and releasable strap means extends between the anchors for limiting opening movement of the closure and retaining trunk contents substantially within an open trunk.

Abstract: Self-locking latch device especially for hood and side panels of industrial trucks having a lock bolt and an adjustable spring loaded latch cooperable therewith to automatically engage and lock the latch to bolt in closing of the hood or side panel, while requiring manual actuation of latch to disengage and open the latter. The device is constructed to self-lock with an increasing force as any unintended force tending to open the latch increases.

Abstract: A retractable cable or cord, wound on a spring biased reel, which is removably secured to the inside of the hinged trunk lid. The cable has anchor means for attaching its free end to a fixed part of the inside of the trunk proper.