| 摘要 |
<p>A frame surround for an aperture in a panel e.g. for a vehicle sunroof, capable of easy rapid assembly, has a first (outer) component (1) (not shown in Figure 3) surrounding the outer margin of, and entering the aperture to present a peripheral outwardly open groove for accommodating a second (inner) component (2). The second component is surrounded by a steel cable (3) tightenable by mechanism (4), and is formed as a number of polymer parts (5a, 5b, 5c) to give a structure distortable inwards as the cable is tightened to enter the outer component groove and clamp the margin of the panel around the aperture between the two components. The groove-entering clamping portions of component (2) are toothed to minimise friction. The cable (3) runs in a restraining groove in the outer face of component (2). This groove does not lie in one plane, whereby tightening the cable tends to minimise cable length and thus distorts the structure by a predetermined amount, to correspond to panel curvature.</p> |
