Stiffeners for automotive vehicle closures

摘要

A closure for an automotive vehicle has a sheet body mounted for pivotal movement about a rotational axis between open and closed positions. A pair of parallel stiffeners extend in a parallel relation from the rotational axis and each stiffener has a body or web with a mounting flange extending in perpendicular relation from one end of the web and a bowed flange extending from the opposite end of the web. The flanges have free edges and an inturned bead or curl is formed on each free edge for stiffening of the flanges.