FOLDING HOOD FOR CAR

A convertible top for vehicles with a frame and a textile cover, in which two columns stretching the cover material are pivotal about an axis extending transversely to the vehicle and with a closed convertible top have a maximum distance from one another at the height of the upper edges of the side walls of an associated body; this maximum distance is adapted to be automatically reduced in the course of the folding-in operation by means of spring-loaded adjusting mechanisms as a function of the pivot angle of the columns stretching the cover material. In order to enable a folding-in of the convertible top into a top box of a vehicle rear section tapered for aerodynamic reasons, the columns supporting the fabric material of the textile cover are each formed by a roof column and a fabric-retaining bow-shaped member of which the roof column extends offset toward the inside and the fabric-retaining bow-shaped member is arranged on the outside of the roof column, and the fabric-retaining bow-shaped member which is pivotally connected in the upper area of the roof column, is adapted to be pivoted from an outwardly pivoted stretching position in which, with a closed top, it predetermines the lateral inclination of the textile cover, into a pivoted-in folding position in which it extends essentially parallel to the roof column.