Windshield and or rear window positioning member and attendant peripheral glass rim in motor car bodies

Claim 1

A member for positioning a window in a seat of a motor vehicle body and also adapted to have a perimetral embellishing rim of the window applied thereto and in which the embellishing rim is provided with two curved edges, comprising a metal piece having a central portion, a first tongue integral with the central portion and extending in a plane essentially perpendicular to that of the central portion, at least a second hook-shaped tongue integral with the central portion, said first tongue having a free end bent to provide a rounded corner for receiving by a snap fitting, one curved edge of the embellishing ring, the second curved edge of the embellishing ring being fitted on said second tongue, two L-shaped side arms integral with and extending outwardly from said first tongue, each side arm having a first portion substantially co-planar with the first tongue and a second portion substantially perpendicular to said first tongue, and a resiliently yieldable wing at the free end of each second portion lying in a plane essentially perpendicular to that of said first tongue, said wings being obliquely inclined with respect to the plane of the central portion and to the plane of said first tongue so that the wings before assembling of the window are spaced from said first tongue by a distance lesser than the thickness of the window, with the window upon assemblage being forcingly inserted between said first tongue and the wings and with the perimetral contour of the window abutted against said wings.