US1361392A - Auto signaling device - Google Patents

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G. J. MAREK.

AUTO SIGNALING DEVICE- APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30. 1920.

Ill?! L Gem e J. JTweR Patefited Dec. 7, 1920.

GEORGE J. MABEK, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

AUTO SIGNALING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1 Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

Application filed March 30, 1920. Serial No. 369,958.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. MAREK, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Auto Signaling Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in signaling devices for automobiles and similar vehicles and has for its object to produce a simple and inexpensive form of device, adapted to be attached to the wind shield or on automobile cover frames, in position-to be readily operated by the driver, and so that he can position the arrows from time to time, to indicate the direction in which the car is to be driven and so that persons following the car will be properly informed as to such intentions.

With these and other objects in view the invention resides and consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the acompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction within the scope of the claim may be resorted to without departure from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and upon which,

Figure 1 shows a front side elevation of the signaling device as seen from the rear of the car when positioned upon the forward frame work adjacent to the drivers seat.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation as seen from the left of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation as seen from the opposite side of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged central vertical sectional view taken through the signaling device on line 4 -4L of Fig. 2.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked upon the drawings, 5 represents a bracket, including an elongated jaw 6 which is adapted to be clamped to a vertically disposed frame member not shown, of a car top, for securing the signaling device to the car in reach of the operator. 7 represents a socket in the outwardly disposed arm 8 of the bracket to receive the shank 9 of the holder 10. A thumb screw 11 positioned in the arm of the bracket serves to secure the shank of the holder in position to retain the plate 12 in a vertical position. This plate is secured to the holder 10 by a series of rivets 13, which pass through both the holder and plate. The portion of the holder adjacent to the center of the disk is stamped out slightly as shown in Fig. 4: to form a bearing 14 against which the pointer 15 operates. The outer face of this bearing 11 is provided with four small lugs 16 which engage corresponding sockets 17 in the abutting side of the front pointer, to serve as detents, to frictionally hold the pointers in position against the resistance of the spring 18 as will later be described. A tubular bushing 19 is fitted in holes of the plate 12 and the holder 10, and forms a bearing for the shaft 20, and whose rounded portion is positioned in said bushing. The reduced forward end portion 21 of the shaft is preferably squared to engage the correspondingly square shaped hole in the front pointer 25. The outer end of the said square portion is further riveted down on the end of the pointer to secure the same to the shaft.

The rear end portion 23 of the shaft 20 is also squared to receive the square hole in.

the washer 24L and the square hole in the rear pointer 25. The spring 18 before mentioned encircles the bushing and its one end portion abuts against the inner end of the disk while the other end is pressed against the washer 24: which in turn presses against the side of the pointer 25. This construction further serves to normally press the shaft and pointer rearward and to keep the pointer in place by frictional engagement with the bearing 14.

26 indicates a handle by means of which the device is operated and includes a shank 27 that is fitted in the slot 28 of the outer square end of the shaft 20. A pin 29 passes through the holes in the end of the shaft and the handle to secure the latter to the former and forms a support for the pointer 25 which is held thereagainst by the action of the spring 18.

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

In an automobile signaling device, the combination with a supporting plate having a central offset bearing portion, of a tubular pointers and shaft in their adjusted posibushing mounted in the plate, a rotatable tions. shaft extending through the bushing, a Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of pointer secured upon each end portion of F airfield and State of Connecticut, this 27th 5 the shaft and one of said pointers being in day of March, A. D., 1920.

frictional engagement With the plate, a han- GEORGE J M AREK dle for turning the shaft and pointers with respect to the plate, a spring positioned Witnesses: around the bushing and between the plate C. M. NEWMAN, l0 and pointer for frictionally holding the HILDUR N. ERIOKSON.

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