GB1222813A - Rear view mirrors for road vehicles - Google Patents

Abstract

1,222,813. Rear view mirrors. JOSEPH LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd. 27 June, 1968 [7 July, 1967], No. 31443/67. Heading B7J. A vehicle interior rear view mirror comprises a sheet metal mounting plate 31 securable to the vehicle body and having a substantially triangular hole 34 with a resilient wall; a reflective element 19 mounted in a synthetic resin housing 11; a mounting bracket 25 formed at its end remote from the housing into a spigot 28 of substantially triangular cross-section which is detachably engageable in the hole 34 in such a manner that rotatory movement of the bracket about the axis of the spigot is resisted unless the mirror suffers a violent impact. The longitudinal edges of the spigot 28 have transverse grooves 30 intermediate their lengths. The resilient wall is provided with cut-aways from the apices of the hole and the initially convex edges of the latter are bent back into flaps 35 parallel with the wall so as to form straight beaded edges 36. In such an arrangement it is possible by virtue of the flexibility of the flaps to engage the spigot in the hole by inserting the spigot into the hole and rotating the bracket so that flaps 35 fit into grooves 30. The reflector 19 which may be formed from a moulded transparent synthetic resin, can be adjusted in order to provide a bright or dim image for the driver in a similar manner to the adjustment of a mirror in another embodiment described with reference to Fig. 2 (not shown). In a modification, a glass reflector is mounted in a metal shell in turn adjustable in a housing.