DE520195C - Device for vehicles, in particular motor vehicles, for making the optical signals used for traffic control visible - Google Patents

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GERMAN EMPIRE

ISSUED ON MARCH 9, 1931

REICH PATENT OFFICE

PATENT LETTERING

JVi 520195 CLASS 63c GROUP

Steatite-Magnesia Akt-Ges. in Berlin-Pankow *) Patented in the German Empire on January 14, 1928

As is well known, in order to regulate road traffic, especially at road crossings, Arranged traffic signals whose changing position or color shows the driver whether he has free passage or stop got to. These signals are usually relatively high above the road as traffic lights hung up. If the signal gives free passage, the must

ίο signal start moving immediately to the stationary carriage, when fast traffic is not to be impaired.

In wagons, especially motor vehicles, in which the driver has a part of the vehicle, e.g. B.

Experience has shown that the convertible top protrudes, i.e. especially when the car is closed the car so close to the signal that the driver can do it from his seat behind the wheel can not see. He must therefore choose

ao lean over the car or wait for the driver of the rear car that has the Can see the signal due to their greater distance, pay attention to the clear passage do.

It has already been proposed in a device for making the Traffic control signals on the radiator or the like of the vehicle one the rays of the traffic signal reflecting or refracting bodies. At this However, the device turns the rays into the through the intermediary of a special mirror The driver's field of vision is steered.

The invention relates to rod-shaped bodies as refractive or reflective Serve body and which are arranged transversely to the vehicle. With this device, the driver can, even if the car is pretty Waiting just below the traffic signal, by observing the refractive or reflective rod-shaped body in which the respective position or color of the Signals with the formation of corresponding lines that recognize free passage, without having to get up from his seat at the wheel.

The deflecting body is given a particularly simple design if, according to the invention, several rod-shaped deflector bodies are arranged one above the other. Those forming the deflector Rods can also be combined to form a ribbed glass.

Should the car stand far to the side of the signal, it would turn into one Do not properly depict the deflector perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the carriage. to for this purpose, the deflector body is provided with parts that are at an angle to the Ouer-

*) The patent seeker stated as the inventor:

Ludwig R. Biber in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

level of the vehicle. The albel body is then angled or arched educated.

In the drawing are several embodiments of the device according to the invention shown.

Fig. 1 illustrates the mode of operation of the device on a carriage in elevation. Fig. 2 is the plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows an embodiment of the deflector in elevation. Fig. 4 is a section along the line AB of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows a horizontal longitudinal section through another shape of the deflector. Fig. 6 is the rear view of Fig. 5 and Fig. 7 is a cross-section along line CD of Fig. 6.

The traffic light α is hung in the usual way above the intersection of two streets. In the illustrated motor vehicle b , the a ^ erdeck c protrudes over the driver e sitting at the wheel d , so that when his car is waiting in the front row for free passage, he cannot see the traffic light α from his seat, like the beam / (Fig. 1 and 2) shows.

At the front of the radiator / carriage b , the refractive deflecting body shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 is now attached, which is composed of a row of glass rods g with round cross-section. These rods are arranged lying on top of one another and held together by a frame h . The deflecting body § · is attached to the radiator / in such a way that the driver e can see it from his seat and the glass rods g lie transversely to the longitudinal axis of the car b.

If the carriage b is waiting and the traffic light α lights up red, a red stripe i forms in the bundle of glass rods g through refraction and reflection. This strip the driver e can observe from his seat. The beam 2 falling from the traffic light α onto the deflecting body g is thus deflected by this body, bypassing the top c, into the driver's field of vision. The traffic light changes α

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Patent claims: green, the driver recognizes this change immediately by the green color of the stripe i and can drive off without having to bend out of the car. According to Fig. 5 to 7, the deflector consists of ribbed glass k, the ribs m of which are horizontal. The ribbed glass is curved and attached to the radiator / in such a way that the ends k ^{1 of} the arch "are at an angle to the transverse plane of the carriage b , as shown in Fig. 2 with dashed lines. In plan, this deflecting body can also be designed in a U-shape instead of an arcuate shape. The red or green line «can also be seen on the ribbed glass k , but as a result of the arcuate design, the carriage b can stand far to the side of the traffic light α , since rays from the traffic light still hit the ribbed glass. i. Device for vehicles, in particular motor vehicles, for making the optical signals used for traffic control visible, in which a light-refracting or reflective body is arranged on the vehicle, for example on the vehicle radiator, characterized in that rod-shaped bodies (g) are used as light-refracting or reflective bodies, which are arranged transversely to the vehicle. 2 .. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that several rod-shaped deflecting bodies (g) are arranged one above the other. 3. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the rod-shaped deflecting bodies are combined to form a ribbed glass (k, 111) . 4. Apparatus according to claim 1 to 3, characterized in that the deflecting body {g, k) are provided with parts (k ¹ ) which are at an angle to the Ouereplane of the vehicle (Jb) . 1 sheet of drawings