Elastic sealing and mounting strip

Claim 1

In combination, a motor vehicle bodywork having a window opening, a window panel and an elastic sealing and mounting strip for mounting the window panel in the opening, the strip having a main body portion or a predetermined hardness, the main body portion having an arch that covers a gap between the window and the vehicle bodywork, the arch being engageable on the one hand against an external surface of the bodywork via a first sealing lip and on the other hand against an external surface of the window via a second sealing lip, the main body portion having a receiving groove corresponding substantially to the thickness of the window, a sealing lip at one side of the groove engageable against the interior side of the window, the main body portion having a downwardly extending holding lip having verbal lapping engagement with a flange rim of the vehicle body work projecting into the window opening, the holding lip having a sealing lip engageable with the interior surface of the flange rim, the main body portion having contiguous to the bottom of the receiving groove, a hollow chamber forming a tubular sealing lip engaged with the bodywork forwardly externally of the rim flange, the hollow chamber having a Z-shaped wall portion in common with a bottom wall of the receiving groove and being thicker than the remaining hollow chamber wall.