US1551828A - Automobile light - Google Patents

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C.MCCLAY AUTOMOBILE LI GBT Filed Feb. 21, 1925 l//a/wcy.

Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

UNITED STATES CHRISTOPHER MCCLAY, OF OREGON CITY, OREGON.

AUTOMOBILE LIGHT.

Application led February 21, 1925. Serial No. 10,771.

To all whom t 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER MOCLAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oregon City, in thev county of Clackamas and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Automobile Light, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to automobile lights in which the direct rays from an electric light bulb are partly thrown against a deflecting hood and partly sent through a colored glass plate whereby that part of the rays is softened. A

The main object of my invention is to produce an illuminating device especially valuable for automobiles in order to avoid the dazzling glare which is so annoying to the oncoming motorist, and which is such a frequent source of disastrous accidents. A further object is to produce spots of concentrated light in the general field of illumination.

Other objects and advantages are to be found in the construction and arrangement of parts as will be described in the specification, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

I attain these objects with the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in whichy Fig. 1 is a front view of the entire apparatus. n

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section through the center line of Fig. l.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Ani electric light bulb 1 of standard construction is inserted in the customary socket 2, said socket 2 being connected by the electric wires 3 with a suitable electric source. It will be noticed that the longitudinal axis of the socket- 2 points upward at an approximate angle of forty-five degrees. Proceeding from the socket 2 is a cup-shaped reflector 4 whose rim is covered by a lens 5. Joining the cup-shaped reflector 4 is a conical reliector 6, which encircles the edge of the former with a flange 7 and is held in place by the screws 8. This flange 7 is provided with an inwardlyextending shoulder 9 to hold the lens 5 in place. The edge of the outwardly flaring wall of the conical reector 6 is joined to a hood 10 whose to nclnes toward and finally meets .the 1ong1- tudinal axis of the socket 2. The open face of the hood 10 is close-d by a front lens l1 which may be fastened to the hood 10 in any desired manner. In front View the lens 11 should preferably appear as a circle. A spot in the upper part ofthe hood 10 is either iattened or better yet, curved, as shown, to act as a concentrating mirror 12. Resting on the bottom or the conical reflector 6, and traversing the path of the lower half of the rays from; the light bulb l is a vertically disposed colored glass plate 13, which extends upward to about the longitudinal axis of the socket. the colored glass plate 13 in its place may be left to the choice of the trained mechanic. A suitable casing 14 as indicated by the dotted lines, may be employed to enclose the construction, of course, with the exception of the front lens.

In this manner the reflected light from the hood will be thrown from seventy-five to one hundred feet ahead, but containing only reflected light mingled with the rays from the colored glass, preferably greem-no dazu zling glare can be experienced. A small circle of brighter illumination will be produced by the concentrating mirror for a distance of about twenty-five or thirty feet where an automobile driver needs greatest clarity, yet this brighter spot also will be without any dazzling glare.

Having thus described my invention, it will be seen that my objects have been accomplished, and, though I have shown the preferred form of construction, I reserve to myself the right to make minor changes, providing I do not violate the`spirit and principle of my invention.

I claim: l

In an automobile light, the combination of a cup-shaped reflector, an electric light bulb at the bottom of said cup-shaped re- Hector, the longitudinal aXis of said cupshaped reiiector extending upward at an angle, a'ange sliding over the outer edge of said cup-shaped reflector, screws holding the flange to said cup-shaped reflector, an

rinwardly extending shoulder connected with the flange, a lens covering the opening of said cup-shaped reflector and held in place by said shoulder, an outwardly flaring conical reflector proceeding from the flange, a

hood rmly attached to ythe .edge of the The manner of aflixing conical reflector, the top of said hood inclining toward and meeting the longitudinal axis of the cup-shaped rellector, a portion in the top of said hood being pressed into a. concentrating mirror, a front lens covering the opening of said hood, a colored glass plate attached to the bottoni of the conicall reector and extending across the lowcl opening of said hood, and a casing sul'- rounding thecupeshaped reflector including 10 the hood.

Signed by me at Poitland7 Oregon, this 14th day of February, 1925.

CHRISTOPHER MCCLAY.

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