US1367318A - Automobile-headlight - Google Patents

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W. M. HORTON.

AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.2,,I9I6.

L 2 9 1 1 F m m P 2 SHEETSLSH'EET I.

Application filed November 3, 1916.

To all 10 ho'm it may concern:

Be it known that l, WILLIAM ltpl llnK'lON, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of (hiyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile- Headlights, of which the following; is a specification.

This invention relates to headlights, more particularly however, to that class of: head light adapted for use on motor vehicles, such for instance as autmnohiles, the object (it the invention. being: to provide. a very simple and elficient headlight, inexpensive to manufacture and in the use of whicl'i the rellector may be readily and quickly tilted into various angular positions by a very simple op cratingmeans, wherehy the reflector can he shifted to throw the light upwardly or downwardly or in a horizontal. position, as occasion requires.

ls is well known, the average headlight now in use is dangerous by reason of the glare thereof, and various devices ha to been. used With more or less success for the purpose of preventing this glare.

The object of the present invention however, is to utilize the ordinary reflector itselt of the headli ht, to do away with the glare and thus obviate the necessity of using: independent devices, such as deflectors andv shades and masks, etc, and to do this hy providing a very simple means for supporh ing' and shifting the reflector.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 3. is a side view of a portion of a motor vehicle, the hood of which is shown broken away; Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate sectional and top views of the lever operating means herein after referred to; Fig. 4 is a top view illustrating the present improvement applied to a pair oi. headlights; Fi 5 is an enlaroed vertical sectional view talien in line 5-b of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is also a vertical sectional view of a portion of a headlight illustrating the present improvement, this view however, showing the operating means attachml directly to the reflector; Fin". 7 is a hori zontal s ction of a portion of the in'iproved headlight shown in Fig. 6, and Fig. 8 is a vertical. cro. 'sectional viev: of one otthe improved headlights i ELECTRIC UQMPANY, 03E ELEVELAND, G a.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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to the wont panion luinp then two thcreot are used,-- secured. to a sleeri ul from such companion. lamp a pivot rod oi greater length eaten is clamp d by the some sleeve, ivherehy hoth lamps may more in. unseen. the annular :incnihe c I of its pivot pm- V i this the return oi the rellecti'ur' to, and the ing of it in, tilted. poo tiou t prevent the glare oi. the lip-ht, and in p oi. hoth ll hips, when two lh used, may l; provid l, each W i, spring. in practice it has hoe the springr may he dispensed 'wu it is of I lice in UPUIfllllif in the manner dcsc ilied, In p A coiled spring", a [let s' iring could he i. preterred. l or tilting; the reflect: lole cable in the tori oi a wire can connected to one o"? annular meinhcr, p of, this cahle leer. ot the casino; at an i any desired point witiu'i i. to the spider ol' the cahle is shown inc.

- i .,.ihlc in such uiauloo oi." movable tained against movement by securing it in any desired Way, by means of clamps or sleeves 13, or any other desired fastening means, To the end of the wire cable is secured suitable means for man1pulat1ng,-1n

other Words for sliding,it relatively to its casing. In the present improvement this means consists of a lever 14 having a grooved hub 15 pivotally connected in the form shown, to a base plate 16, which is provided w th a suitable guide 17 for the Wire, and to which guide one end of the wire casing 12 is secured, 'While the Wire 11 passes through the guide and is attached to the hub for movement therewith. This base plate 16 may be secured at any desired point within the vehicle, but is shown secured to the spider of the steering wheel. On top of the hub is located a flat washer 18 and a spring Washer held in place by a cap 20, whereby the lever is maintained in any of its shifted positions. When the lever is shifted the Wire will be shifted relatively to the casing, thereby to shift and hold the tilting refiector in any desired position.

By means of the flexible cable it will be observed that it can be arranged in any desired position as, for instance, coiled around the steering column, while at the same time the use of universal joints and other flexible connections are entirely avoided, thus providing a very simple and inexpensive oper ating means for the reflector.

Of course it will be understood that the various details may be more or less modified 1 by a two-part rod, *ach part of which in the. I

present form of the. improvement constitutes one pivot of a reflector, and this rod is lo' cated near the front of the refle 'tor, and by means of this connecting red one reflector is operated from or through the other. to which latter the flexible cable is directly connected as shown herein at a point substantially midway between the pivotal connections of the reflector with the casin".

I claim as my invention:

The combination oi a pair of headlights. each comprising a casin; and a reflector, a reinforcing member secured to each reflector and shiitably connected to the casing, a connection between said reinforcing members whereby both reflectors will move in unison in a vertical plane whcrclrv the re ficctors may be shifted do\\n\vardl to we vent. the glare oi the. light without cutting oil the rays thereof, and means for shilling said reflectors and comprising a casing-inclosed sliding member connected with one oi said reinforcing members.

Signed at #1822 Park llow Building. in

the city, county and State of New York, this 1st day of November, 1916. WILLIAM M. HORTON.

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