Motor-vehicle door

DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
A motor-vehicle door comprising: an outer skin; an inner skin fixed to the outer skin, forming therewith a cavity, and formed with a cutout; a mechanism holder releasably secured in the cavity at the cutout; a latch; means including a horizontally effective slide mount engaged between the latch and the holder for displacement of the latch horizontally on the holder and for fixing the latch on the holder in any of a plurality of horizontally offset positions thereon; and means including a detent engaged between the slide mount and the latch for releasably securing the latch in a one of the positions.
2.
The motor-vehicle door defined in claim 1 wherein the slide mount includes a pair of interfitting and horizontally extending rails respectively fixed to the holder and to the latch.
3.
The motor-vehicle door defined in claim 2 wherein one of the rails engages around the other rail.
4.
The motor-vehicle door defined in claim 3 wherein the other rail is fixed to the latch and the one rail to the holder.
5.
The motor-vehicle door defined in claim 1 wherein the detent means includes a spring braced against one of the rails and a formation on the other rail operatively engageable with the spring.
6.
The motor-vehicle door defined in claim 5 wherein the formation is a notch and the spring has a bight resiliently engageable in the notch.




Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a motor-vehicle door.
More particularly this invention concerns such a door having an outer wall, an inner wall, and a holder for the door latch as well as other door components.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A standard motor-vehicle door has welded-together inner and outer door panels or walls made of sheet metal and forming a central cavity that holds the latch and window parts which are inserted into the door through a hole in the inside wall.
The inside wall is covered in use by a decorative panel.
As described in European patents 0,385,823 and 0,406,034 of Bertolini and in German patent document 4,407,114 of Hundertmark, the vehicle door latch is fixed to a holder that also carries the window operating mechanism