US1204981A - Vehicle-signal. - Google Patents

Description

E. HEAD.

VEHICLE 32GNAL.

APPLICATION men 02c. 10,1914..

Patented Nov, M, 1916.

' lnvenibi' Attorneys EDWARD FRANCIS HEAD, OF WINNIBEG, CANADA.

VEHICLE-SIGNAL.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I. Enwauo F. Hmma citizen of Canada. residing at \Vmmpeg. lIl

' the Province of Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Signal, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in vehicle signals, one object of the invention, being the provision of a signal especially adapted for use upon motor cars to indicate the direction of turning of such motor car, the present device being simple and inexpensive in construction and readily attached to the rear portion of the motor car to carry two spring projected signal devices for disposition one upon each side of the carrying member thereof, in combination with means for releasing the same and for retracting the same within the sheath or covering.

A still further object of the present invention, is the provision of a device of this (:lltlltlfitt? in which the spring propelled signal provided with sm'ing cushioning devices to reduce the jar occasioned by the sudlen propulsion of the signal into signaling position.

Vith the foregoing view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawingsFigu1-c 1 is a rear elevation of an automobile with the present signal device in operable relation thereto, one of the signals being projected. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view through the sheath carrying-the present signals showing one of the signals projected. Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of the operating mechanism for withdrawing and releas ng the respective signals.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 esignates a sheath which is attached to the rear of the automobile A and is open at both ends. Disposed Within the sheath are two parallel plates 2, and the two short end plates 3. Attached'to the respective plates Specification of Letters Patent.

and other objects in Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

Applicationfiled December 10. 1914. Serial No. 876,513.

2 and 3 at each side of the center of the sheath are two parallel guide rods 4, there being two ot these rods to each signal 6.

Mounted for sliding movement upon each pair of rods 4. is a plate or support 5 which carries its respective signal device 6, said signal device being a fiat member and carrying the ornamental head portion 7 which is normally beyond the outer end of the sheath 2 at all times.

In order that the blade Tmay be automatically projected and consequently cause the signal to be projected as illustrated at the left in Figs. 1 and 2, there is disposed to abut the outer face of the plate 5 and the adjacent face of the plate 2 a spring 8, which is the propelling spring for the present device. Mounted upon the opposite side of the plate 5 is a compression or buffer spring 9, there being two of these springs to each signal, such springs providing a'cushion to relieve the jar when the signal is released and propelled 0utwardlv by the spring 8. or in the position as shown at the right in Fig. 2.

In order to provide a means for retracting the signal 6 and maintaining the same within the sheath as shown at the right in Figs. 2 and 3, a cable or flexible connection 10 is connected intermediate of the ends of the plate 5 and extendil within the coils of the spring 8 over the pulley l1, and as illustrated in Fig. is directed to a point adjacent the dashboard of the automobile to be in ready access to the operator, there being a releasing device 12 and a pulling device 13. whereby the respective cables 10 may be released to permitthe signals to be projected to indicate to an oncoming vehicle the direction that the operator intends to turn. By means of the device 13. the cable may be pulled upon to compress the spring 8 and be locked in such position. It will thus be seen that the sheath 1 properly carries both signal blades 6, and that the same is readily applied to vehicles now in use by simply attaching to the rear thereof, or where desired upon the dash board.

lVhere the device used upon the rear of the vehicle as shown in Fig. 1, lamp brackets let are connected thereto and suspend the lamps 15 so as to direct the rays of light from above downwardly upon the signal paddles, the two reflectors 16 being carrie by eachlano. so that theweys of each of the rods 4 at light may be projected simultaneously upon thefront and rear face of the signal blade 6.

The spring 8 abuts against the head or plate 5 midway between the rods 4 and constitutes both a means for advancing the signal (3 and a means for maintaining the signal 6 parallel to the rods, thereby reducing friction when the signal mores in the opening in the end of the sheath 1.

\Vhat is claimed is:

A signal device including a sheath open at both ends, two pairs of parallel rods dis- 'poscd within said sheath, one pair to each end thereof, a plate mounted upon each pair of rods for sliding movement, a signal member carried by each plate for projection bea buffer spring mounted on each rod and engaging the outer face of each plate to reduce the shock of the signal members when the same are propelled outwardly.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

' EDWVARD FRANCIS HEAD.

lVitnesses HARRY A. KAPLAN, ARTHUR ERUDIIAMM"

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