LOCKING DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE TOP

摘要

A locking device for a folding top on the windscreen frame of a motor vehicle comprises a pivot lever arranged on the top side and a retainer provided on the windscreen frame, the pivot arm mounted about an approximately horizontally aligned longitudinal axis cooperating with an actuation device. …In order to provide a locking device for a top, which device has a simple design and functions well and whose closing force acting in the vertical direction reaches its maximum value in the locking position of the top, the retainer is formed by a rotatable roller which corporates with a guide path provided on the pivot lever in such a way that during the closing process the guide path is moved from an unlocking position running laterally next to the roller around the lower region of the roller via intermediate positions into a locking position lying below the roller. The points of rotation of the pivot lever and of the roller are located on a common, vertically extending auxiliary plane. During the closing process, the upper point of rotation of the pivot lever on the auxiliary plane moves downwards. In the locking position, the area of the guide path at a tangent to the roller is aligned at right angles to the vertical auxiliary plane. ……