FI57231C - STAENKSKYDD FOER FORDON - Google Patents

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PftUnt- OCR ragiltaratyralaan AmMcm utlagd och utlJkrMtM publtc * r »d 31.03.80 (32) (33) (31) Fyyda ** jr« Tuoikea · —Begird prlorim (71) Aina Grundsbo, PI 320U, U606U Frändefors, Sweden-Sverige (SE) (72) Gösta Grundsbo, Sweden-Sweden (SE) (7 * 0 Leitzinger Oy (5U) Splash guard for vehicles - Stänkskydd för fordon The present invention relates to a splash guard for vehicles according to the preamble of the claim.

For road safety, splash guards are required on road vehicles, especially in the rear wheel pair. In splash guards, which consist of rubber pads hanging behind the wheels, there is a high risk that they will tear off if they get caught between the wheel and the chassis when the vehicle reverses on an uneven chassis. U.S. Patent Nos. 2,981,553 and 3,486,764 disclose splash guards which begin with a shaft and which can be turned up by rotating the shaft. However, such a splash guard requires a large space when turned up in the vertical direction. The space available between the mudguard from which the splash guard normally leaves and the underside of the vehicle pallet is very limited in most lorries and does not allow such upturning.

The object of the present invention is to provide such a fold-up splash guard that it is also possible to fold-up in vehicles in which said spaces are very limited.

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The object of the invention is achieved by an arrangement having the features given in the claim.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the rear of a truck on which a device according to the invention is mounted.

Figure 2 is a schematic side view of the device.

According to Fig. 1, a relatively open rear wheel 2 placed below the pallet 1 is provided with a fender 3. This fender terminates at its rear in a rubber splash guard H. For a reason not explained here, it is not appropriate to allow the disc guard 3 to extend which would be needed to effectively protect against splashing backwards. The splash guard 4 thus forms an extension of the relatively high end guard 3. Cover 3 is attached to the top of the back light 5, which at least on one side has been supplemented by the illuminated numerokilvellä and must not be too high in the stage 1 below.

The splash guard 4 is mounted on the shaft 6 at the rear lower edge of the fender 3. The shaft 6 is provided with a short lifting arm 7, which for the sake of clarity is shown to extend rearwards, although it could just as well be inside the contour of the guard 3. The lifting arm 7 is connected to the wire or rod 8 by a power member, mainly a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder, a traction magnet or an electric motor.

The splash guard 4 is located for each rear wheel (or pair of rear wheels) in the vehicle and since it must be possible to act on each splash guard by means of a force element, this can be expediently common to both splash guards. It is then preferably placed in the body of the vehicle and connected to the lifting arms of both splash guards 7 by so-called Bowden cables, the wires of which are shown by elements 8.

The splash guards * + are made of flexible rubber or plastic and, for the reason given below, a protruding rail 9 is attached above the mountings of the splash guards 57231 made on the shafts 6 by the shafts 6.

Said force member can be controlled in some way. It can be controlled, for example, from the wheelhouse of the vehicle by means of a special control device suitably supplemented by an indicator lamp.

However, it can also be controlled by the vehicle's shift lever, if it is in the reverse position, in which case the power member is arranged for two positions. In the second position, the splash guards may be in the normal positions shown in solid lines, mainly depending on their vertical mounting points. In the second position, the splash guards are held in the position shown by the dotted and dashed lines.

The operation of the device is as follows:

Normally and when driving on the road, the splash guards 4 hang downwards as shown in solid figures in the figures. In this case, said force member, which is in a corresponding position, is not expediently affected. When the vehicle is reversed, the power member is activated either by said special control or by a sensor which begins to act when the gear lever is moved to the reversing position. Upon activation, the force member moves to another position and then acts on the shafts 6 of the splash guards by means of rods or cables 8 and a lifting arm 7. The shaft 6 turns about · 180 ° and the splash guard 4 follows this movement. However, as mentioned, the splash guard is made of a soft material and can therefore bend partly due to its own weight and in the final position also due to its pushing against the rail 9 in a doubly bent position according to the dotted and broken lines in the figure, the lower edge of the splash guard will then be approximately due to its tendency to double, it will take up less than half its length in the height direction, despite its upward tendency. As a result, the tail light and the number box 5 are not covered, despite the fact that this must be located relatively low due to the lack of space in the height direction. The rail 9 effectively prevents the splash guard from covering the tail light 5 when turning up.

The device described has effectively solved a difficulty, namely to make the splash guard foldable without therefore obscuring the tail light when the guard is in its upper position. Namely, it is very important not to cover the tail light, because it can