DE2514080A1 - REAR LIGHT FOR TWO-WHEELS WITH AND WITHOUT MOTOR - Google Patents

Description

Patent and utility model application dated March 26, 1975

Applicant: Knut Bertil Lindblad
770 21 Malingsbo

our reference: 1055/2

Rear light for two-wheelers with and without a motor

The invention relates to a rear light, in particular with a reflective glass, for two-wheelers with and without i! o5or with power supply by a generator.

When riding a bicycle or motorcycle in the dark, it is important for reasons of road safety to that the rear light of the vehicle is OK and is on. If one with an electric and fed by a generator If the rear light equipped with a bulb fails, the defective bulb should be able to be replaced quickly and easily. Such a bulb replacement is, however, in the known and sold taillights that are only for one only incandescent lamp set up, very difficult to do in the dark. In certain cases it has been demonstrated that a large percentage of two-wheeler owners want to change lightbulbs go to a workshop. These circumstances are quite unsatisfactory from the standpoint of road safety.

The invention aims to remedy this obvious disadvantage to eliminate and to create a rear light in which a defective light bulb can be quickly and easily replaced by another

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The invention achieves this in that several incandescent lamps are provided on a carrier plate in the rear light and the support plate is adjustable by means of a handle protruding from the housing of the rear light in such a way that that a light bulb can be switched into the generator's lighting circuit if necessary. This solution brings the advantage that if an incandescent lamp fails without opening the rear light housing, you can simply adjust it Immediately switch on a replacement light bulb in the lighting circuit of the carrier plate and thereby the failed rear light can be put back into operation. All you have to do is feel the handle to adjust the carrier plate and adjust. This is also possible in the dark. The replacement of incandescent lamps can be up to the consumption of all incandescent lamps in the Taillight housing to be repeated. The adjustable support plate can be designed as a rotatable disk. The single ones Incandescent lamps are then along a circle concentric to the disk pivot point at equal angular intervals in the Carrier plate inserted. The adjustable support plate can also be moved in a straight line in guides Form a slide on which the light bulbs sit at equal intervals. In this case you can use the handle for the Guide the slide down and out of the rear light housing.

If the rear light is equipped with a converging lens in the reflective glass, then the carrier plate can be made that way adjustable., · and arranges the light bulbs on it so that each When moving the light bulb into the operating position, its filament is in the focus of the converging lens. Achieved with it you get the highest light output.

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The carrier plate can consist of insulating material and each incandescent lamp on the carrier plate with its one contact in a metal frame connected to the generator sit and in their operating position by means of a contact spring lying in the movement path of their head contact be connected to ground. This is when adjusting the support plate after failure of an incandescent lamp the defective light bulb has been removed from the lighting circuit and the next replacement bulb in the lighting circuit is switched on and starts to burn as soon as it has reached its operating position and with its head contact on the ground contact spring has accrued.

The drawing explains the invention on the basis of two exemplary embodiments, on which the invention, however is not restricted. In the drawing show:

Fig. Ii a rear light for swiveling incandescent lamps in vertical section along the line A-B of Fig. Ij

Fig. 2i the rear light according to FIG. 1 in plan view and

Fig. 3 »another embodiment of the rear light in plan view, whereby the light bulbs sit in a linearly adjustable slide.

The rear light is in both versions with the screws 2, which are located on the rear wall 8 of the housing 1, attached to the rear wheel mudguard of the vehicle. The rear light has a reflective glass 3 made of red glass with a converging lens 4 therein, behind which the incandescent lamps are arranged on a carrier plate 6 so that each incandescent lamp in the operating position with its filament in the focal point of the converging lens 4 is located. The carrier plate 6 / disc shape,

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consists of insulating material and has a central pin 9 on the column protruding from the rear wall 8 rotatably mounted and has three incandescent lamps 5 in the example in metal sockets, not shown further, one below the other screwed in at the same angular distances. The screw contacts of these incandescent lamps 5 are supplied with power via the metal sockets, the central pin 9 and the electrical cable 11 leading to the vehicle generator.

Each in the operating position behind the converging lens 4 The incandescent lamp 5 brought in lies with its head contact against one of the rear wall 8 or a fastening screw 2 held contact spring 12, which is connected to ground. This means that the lighting circuit from the generator is via the In each case in the operating position incandescent lamp 5 closed to ground.

A handle 7 protrudes from the rotatable support plate 6 through a slot in the ceiling of the rear light housing 1 out of the housing 1 at the top. With this handle you can pivot the carrier plate 6 to the left or right and a replacement incandescent lamp 5 in the operating position in the focal point of the converging lens 4 and in electrical contact with bring the contact spring 12. This adjustment can also be carried out quickly and easily in the dark. For easy Replacing the incandescent lamps 5 after all the incandescent lamps have been used, the reflective glass 3 with the converging lens 4 is useful removable from housing 1.

In the embodiment according to FIG. 3, three incandescent lamps 5 sit interchangeably on a slide 13 * in the housing 17 in guides 14> 15 by means of a protruding downward Handle 16 is approximately vertically adjustable, so that there is always an incandescent lamp in the focal point of the lens 4 here as well existing, removable reflective glass 3 can be moved. In this version, too, the incandescent lamps in interconnected and via a cable to the

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Metal sockets connected to the vehicle generator sit, which make the electrical connections siit the one contacts of the light bulbs and in the operating position · with their head contacts run onto a contact spring connected to ground.

In both versions, nian can also be used instead of three provide two or four light bulbs. The respective position the support plates 6 and 13 can be done with the help of a Fix the ball catch (not shown) in a simple manner.

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Claims (5)

Claims / \ J Electric rear light, in particular with reflex glass, for two-wheelers with and without a motor with light current supply by a generator, characterized in that several light bulbs (5) are provided on a carrier plate C6, 13) in the rear light housing (ί, 17) and the carrier plate can be adjusted by means of a handle (7, 16) protruding from the housing (!) of the rear light in such a way that a bulb can be switched into the generator circuit if necessary. 2. rear light according to claim 1, characterized in that the adjustable support plate is designed as a rotatable disc (6). 3 · rear light according to claim 1, characterized in that the adjustable support plate is designed as a slide (13) which can be moved in a straight line in guides (14, 15). 4. Taillight according to Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that that the carrier plate (6, 13) made of insulating material consists, each incandescent lamp (5) sits with its one contact in a metal socket connected to the generator and in their operating position by means of a contact spring lying in the movement path of their head contact (12) is connected to ground. 5. Taillight according to claims 1 to 4 with a collecting lens in the reflective glass, characterized in that the carrier plate (6, 13) adjustable and the incandescent lamps (5) are arranged on the carrier plates so that each incandescent lamp (5) when transferred in the operating position with its filament is in the focus of the converging lens (4).