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Abstract

Passenger safety in vehicles equipped with sun roof accessory is enhanced by provision of a safety vehicle sun roof lock and support apparatus for vehicle sun roof panels movably mounted in a vehicle roof opening circumscribed by a fixed flange. The apparatus comprises a roof panel, a roof opening interfitting flange defining a panel seat, anchor means secured to the flange freely of protrusions engendering personal injury, and an articulated coupler comprising first bar means connected at one end to the panel, and second bar means connected at one end to the anchor means, the first and second bar means being pivotally connected to each other at their respective other ends for locking the panel in seated or opened position relative to the flange, the second bar means being bodily deflectable from its said connected relations for complete panel removal from said flange, the anchor being thereby exposed and, by virtue of its design without exposing injury engendering protrusions. The passenger is thus not exposed to head injury otherwise resultant from jouncing upward in the car into contact with downwardly and outwardly protruding hardware heretofore associated with sun roof accessories.

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First Claim