Winter top enclosure identity

[Sean Collins]

... Thanks so much for posting those two Willys' Patents for the CJ canvas top assembly and the front doors; they are verrrrry interesting!

Yah, patents can be very enlightening!

I was most intrigued by the first one, #2460399, which shows the door system attached to typical MB folding bow setup (figs 1,2,3...), then later attached to a vertical bow rod, similar to final CJ-2A (figs 13, 14).

The photos don't show enough of all the metalwork to be sure, but it appears he might have a mix of both earlier (fig 1-3) type, and later (fig 13,14) type.

The 5th photo shows horizontal & vertical rods as in figs 13 & 14 (and identical to production CJ-2A)

While the last photo shows a hooked end, which conforms to the description of the "MB" attaching system of figs 1-3 (read the description for #38).

Would be nice to see the other end of that rod (and the other end of the rod in 11th photo)!

[slatgrille]

Glad my post has garnered such interest. I will take pics of the rod ends as soon as my camera battery is charged...it died as I was about to do so. The rod with the hook is sewn into the side canvas, but is straight with a single bolt hole on the opposite end.

I 'll get the extra pics later on today.

[slatgrille]

Here are additional photos plus a different door frame and stapled window frames (assumed for the door).

[slatgrille]

....and last of the pics...

[Joe Gopan]

It's obvious from features of the canvas work and hardware that this top was manufactured at the same shops as those for the CJ-2A,CJ-3A 40's-50s Canvas tops.

[Ernie Baals]

the horizontal bar, from the windshield to the top bow is not MB/GPW
It looks like there is a combination of WWII and CJ there
On the Military hardware that bar clamps to the windshield as yours does at the bows the is a Y that goes around the front bow.
that bar also has a loop in it that accepts the top the bar in your side curtain, the bottom of that vertical bar gets bolted to the top hole of the front bow bracket.
I will try to dig mine out to get pictures

[slatgrille]

BTT

[Joe Gopan]

Are you planning on installing your top? I could use the hardware if you have no plans for it. I have a NOS Top and would like to close it in someday.