Claims
- 1. A soft top assembly for an automotive vehicle consisting essentially of:
a structural element in a form of a fixing strip having an edge; a soft top surface element having an edge extending along but spaced from said edge of said strip by a gap; and a strip-shaped polyurethane cast resin bead element having a first bead portion molded onto and embedding said edge of said strip and lying along one face of said surface element, and a second bead portion molded onto another face of said surface element along said edge of said surface element, bonded to said first bead portion and interconnected therewith with interfitting formations of said bead portions, said strip-shaped polyurethane cast resin bead element wholly receiving said edges and bridging said gap.
- 2. The soft top assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said polyurethane cast resin bead element is composed of a two-component polyurethane.
Priority Claims (1)
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19724592.7 |
Nov 1997 |
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is a division of pending application 09/716,199 filed Nov. 17, 2000 which was a division of application 09/552,213 filed Apr. 19, 2000 (U.S. Pat. No. 6,170,901) which, in turn, is a division of U.S. Pat. No. 6,082,807.
Divisions (2)
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09716199 |
Nov 2000 |
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09860068 |
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09552213 |
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09716199 |
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