Window panel position regulating assembly.

摘要

A window panel regulating and sealing assembly, particularly suited for use in combination with a vehicle door, for raising and lowering a window and assuring a perfectly flush and fully sealed condition at the vehicle exterior. The window is supported at its front and rear sides within vertically disposed guide channels by means of pivotal sliding type upper guide members attached to the window approximately at midpoint thereof and by means of lower guide members attached to the window at the lower edge thereof. The guide channels include an outwardly extending, abruptly curved ramp section within which the lower guide members track and cause the window to pivot about the upper guide members as the window is at its near uppermost raised position thereby causing the window at its upper and lower extremities to firmly bear against respective relatively non-yielding sealing members to establish a perfectly flush positioning of the window relative to the vehicle exterior. The guide channel members between the upper and lower guide members include an adjacent sealing housing with a vertically disposed U-shaped elastomeric sealing member disposed therewithin and with its open end facing the window and receiving in sealing engagement a vertically disposed vane type sealing member affixed to the window and extending from the upper guide member to the lower guide member whereby a seal is maintained between each guide channel and the window between the upper and lower guide members at all times during the raising and lowering of the window during which the upper guide member is above the beltline as the window is being raised or lowered and when the window is in the fully raised position.