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A completely mechanical hold open device for a swingably mounted vehicle closure includes a pair of telescoping members pivotally connected to the closure and vehicle body and a releasable latching means for automatically holding the telescoping members in an extended position and hence the closure

A completely mechanical hold open device for a swingably mounted vehicle closure includes a pair of telescoping members pivotally connected to the closure and vehicle body and a releasable latching means for automatically holding the telescoping members in an extended position and hence the closure in its open position. The latching means is constructed such that it can be automatically released by merely exerting a downward force in excess of a predetermined magnitude on the closure to move the latter to its closed position.

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In a vehicle body having a closure swingably mounted thereon for movement between open and closed positions and a support strut means for holding said closure in its open position, said support strut means comprising a pair of telescoping members, one of which has one end pivotally connected to said

In a vehicle body having a closure swingably mounted thereon for movement between open and closed positions and a support strut means for holding said closure in its open position, said support strut means comprising a pair of telescoping members, one of which has one end pivotally connected to said closure and the other of which has one end pivotally connected to said vehicle body, said telescoping members having their adjacently located end portions slidably connected together so that the strut means can be collapsed when the closure is moved toward its closed position and can be extended when the closure is moved toward its open position, and a releasable latch means carried by one of said telescoping members and cooperably engageable with the other of said telescoping members to hold the closure in its open position when moved thereto, the improvement being that said releasable latch means comprises a latch member supported by one of said telescoping members for movement between a latched position in which a pawl thereof extends through an opening in said one telescoping member and engages a catch surface on the other of said telescoping members to hold said closure in its open position and an unlatched position in which the pawl is out of engagement with said catch surface to allow said strut means to be collapsed and said closure to be moved to its closed position, first biasing means for biasing said latch member toward its latched position, a release member cooperably engageable with said latch member and slidably supported on said one telescoping member for limited movement relative thereto, second biasing means having a biasing force for biasing said release member and said one telescoping member relative to each other toward a first position in which said latch member is allowed to move through said opening in said one telescoping member between its latched and unlatched positions, said release member and said one telescoping member being relatively movable from their first position in opposition to the biasing force of said second biasing means toward a second position during which means on said one telescoping member engages said latch member to effect movement of said latch member from its latched to its unlatched position to allow said strut means to collapse in response to solely a closing direction force in excess of a given magnitude being exerted on the closure when the latter is initially being moved from its open position toward its closed position.