US1336489A

US1336489A - Signal device

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Publication number: US1336489A
Application number: US302431A
Authority: US
Inventors: Claud F Smith
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-06-07
Filing date: 1919-06-07
Publication date: 1920-04-13
Anticipated expiration: 1937-04-13

Description

C. F. SMITH.

SIGNAL DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7, 1919.

1,336,439, Patnted Apr. 13, 1920.

BMW-1 fo'c 1/100 1. J/wrfi witnesses 6 CLAUD F. SMITH,

0F KALAIX'IAZOO, MICHIGAN.

SIGNAL DEVICE.

Application filed June 7. 1919.

1 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CLAUD F. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at 915 Mill st., city and county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Signal Devices, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to improvements in signal devices.

The main objects of this invention are:

First, to provide an improved signal device for motor vehicles which may be mounted upon the body of a vehicle in aconvenien't position to be operated by the driver.

Second, to provide an improved signal device comprising a single signal member adapted to be manipulated to display dif ferent signal indicia.

Third, to provide an improved signal device having these advantages which is very simple and economical in structure. convenient to operate and readily mounted on various makes of automobiles.

Further objects, and objects relating to structural details, will definitely appear from the detailed description to follow.

I accomplish the objects of my invention by the devices and means described in the following specification. The invention is clearly defined and pointed out in the claims.

A. structure which is a preferred embodiment of my invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which:

Figure I is a. detail side view of a motor vehicle having my improved signal device mounted thereon.

Fig. II is a detail vertical section on a line corresponding to line 22 of Figs. I and III, the signal member being shown in its collapsed position by full lines and in its erected position by dotted lines.

Fig. III is a horizontal section on a line corresponding to line 33 of Fig. II.

Fig.v IV is a detail section corresponding to Fig. II with the signal member in its erected position, it being reversed from the erected position shown by dotted lines in Fig. II.

In the drawing similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, and the sectional views are Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, 1920.

Serial No. 302,431.

taken looking in the direction of the little arrows at the ends of the section lines.

Referring to the drawing 1 represents the body of a motor vehicle and L the door thereof adjacent to the drivers seat, my improved signal being preferably mounted upon upper edge of the door so as to be within convenient reach of the driver. The signal member 3 is preferably blade-like as illustrated and is provided with a spindle t supported by a bearing 5 pivoted on the support 6, the pivot 6 for the bearing being disposed at right angles to the spindle. The supporting bracket is in the form of a plate adapted to be secured to the upper edge of the door 2 as shown in the accompanying drawing. The spindle is provided with a hand piece T which preferably terminates in a weight 8 which tends to rotate the spindle in its bearing so that when col lapsed the blade of the signal member lies in the position shown in Figs. I and II.

To yieldably retain the signal member in its collapsed position preventing swinging thereof through motion of the vehicle, I provide a spring detent 9 of V shape the ends of the arms of which are secured to the support 6 at 10 so that as the signal member swings to its collapsed position it is engaged by the detent as shown in Figs. II and III.

To assist in turning the signal member to the same position when collapsed it is provided with a flattened or cam portion 11. with which the converging sides of the detent coat-t as the spindle swings into the detent turning the spindle to the same norma or collapsed position so that the operator will not be confused in manipulating to present the indicia desired.

In the structure illustrated the signal member has the word stop on one side and the word left on the other.

\Vith the parts thus illustrated the signal may be swung to its erected position and rotated to display the indicia desired and. when released the weight of the signal member is sufiicient to swing it to its collapsed position. The hand piece is preferably weighted so that it also tends to turn the spindle to bring it to its proper position when collapsed.

I have not illustrated or described certain modifications and adaptations which I contemplate as I believe the disclosure made will enable those skilled in the art to which my invention relates to embody or adapt the same as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a signal device, the combination of a supporting bracket adapted to be mounted on the edge of the body of a vehicle at the side of the driver, a blade-like signal member having signal indicia on both sides and provided with a spindle a weighted hand piece at its inner end, said spindle having a cam, a bearing for said spindle pivotally mounted on said bracket, the pivot being disposed at right angles to the spindle so that the signal may be swung to a horizontal erected position and the spindle rotated to display either side or to a vertical collapsed position, and a spring detent yieldably engaging the spindle when in its collapsed position, said detent being provided with a converging portion coacting with said cam portion of said spindle to turn the spindle in its bearings as it swings on its pivot to collapsed position.

2. In a signal device, the combination of a supporting bracket adapted to be mounted on the edge of the body of a vehicle at the side of the driver, a blade-like signal member having signal indicia on both sides and PIOXlClQd with a spindle having a hand piece, a bearing for said spindle pivotally mounted on said bracket, the pivot being disposed at right angles to the spindle so that the signal may be swung to a horizontal erected position and the spindle rotated to display either side or to a vertical collapsed position, and a spring detent yieldably engaging the spindle when in its collapsed position.

In a signal device, the combination of a supporting bracket adapted to be mounted on the edge of the body of a vehicle at the side of the driver, a'signal member having signal indicia on both sides and provided with a spindle having a hand piece at its inner end and a bearing for said spindle pivotally mounted on said bracket. the pivot being disposed at right angles to the spindle so that the signal may be swung to a horizontal erected position and the spindle rotated to display either sideor to a vertical collapsed position.

4:. In a signal device, the combination of a signal member having signal indicia on both sides thereof and provided with a spindle having a hand piece, said spindle having a cam portion, a pivoted support for said spindle disposed so that the signal member may be swung to erected position and rotated to display either side, a spring detent for yieldably holding said signal member in its collapsed position, and means coacting with said cam member on said spindle for turning the spindle so that the signal member will occupy the same position when collapsed as the signal member is swung to its collapsed position.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two witnesses.

-CLAUD F. SMITH. [n s] lVitnesses:

CLAUDE M. KEEP, JULIUs DEIDOPPEL.