GB183539A - Improvements relating to wind screens and enclosed bodies for vehicles - Google Patents

Abstract

183,539. Riley (Coventry), Ltd., and Rush, H. April 19, 1921. Wind-screens. - Relates to motor and like vehicles having a convertible open to closed body and provided in the open position with a wind-screen for protecting the passengers occupying the rear seats. According to the invention, a unitary device is mounted on each side of the vehicle so as to swing as a whole about a single fixed pivot and adapted to be used in alternative positions, in one position to form a rear wind-screen, and in the other position to form sole in conjunction with the hood 11, front screens 9, and side windows 10 thereon a fully enclosed compartment. In the construction shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the unitary device consists of a two-part screen 5, 6 mounted on a short arm 4 connected to a socket 3 which is slidable on an arm 1 swinging about the fixed pivot. The parts 5, 6 can either be arranged as shown in full lines in Fig. 3 to form a rear screen, or by adjustment of the arms 1, sockets 3 and arms 4 to the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3 to form a fully enclosed compartment as shown in Fig. 2. In a modification, Fig. 6, the unitary devices consist of single panels 7, 8 pivoted on each side of the vehicle and when swung inwards adapted to form a preferably V-shaped screen.