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US1651053A
US1651053A US179442A US17944227A US1651053A US 1651053 A US1651053 A US 1651053A US 179442 A US179442 A US 179442A US 17944227 A US17944227 A US 17944227A US 1651053 A US1651053 A US 1651053A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R19/00—Wheel guards; Radiator guards, e.g. grilles; Obstruction removers; Fittings damping bouncing force in collisions
    • B60R19/02—Bumpers, i.e. impact receiving or absorbing members for protecting vehicles or fending off blows from other vehicles or objects
    • B60R19/24—Arrangements for mounting bumpers on vehicles
    • B60R19/26—Arrangements for mounting bumpers on vehicles comprising yieldable mounting means
    • B60R19/28—Metallic springs
    • B60R19/285—Metallic springs comprising only leaf springs, e.g. the mounting means forming part of the guard itself

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  • the present invention relates to bumpers for vehicles; and its object is, generally,to provide an improved device of that character whereby the vehicle would be protected from injuries which might otherwise result from contact with extraneous objects; and further, to provide such a device having an impact bar provided with improved strengthening means and being freely turnably mounted at its ends.
  • Figure 1 is a top plan view of a bumper for vehicles
  • Figure 2 is a front or face view thereof
  • Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same taken on lines 3-3 of Figures 1 and 2;
  • Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view of parts thereof taken on either of the lines 4L-1 of the other views.
  • a bumper for vehicles such as automobiles, comprising horizontallydisposed spring impact bars 1 connected at their opposite ends by means of vertical pintles 2 with the supporting horizontallydisposed rear spring bar 3 which is mounted on the vehicle by suitable supports 4.
  • the impact element comprises a pair of such bars 1, 1, the rear bar 3 extending at its ends between the adjacent ends of said impact bars.
  • the ends of the rear bars are, in the construction shown, curled around the middle portions of the vertically-disposed pintles and thus support the same, while the ends of the impact bars 1, 1 are in like manner curled around the pintles above and below the ends of the rear bar, and swingably bear on the said pintles whenever the impact bars receive a thrust which springs the same out of normal position.
  • These impact bars 1, 1 comprise upper and lower longitudinallyextending flat portions 5, 5 and an intermediate longitudinally-extending portion 6 which is bow-ed outwardly so that said intermediate longitudinally-extending portion has a cross-sectionally convex outer surface 7 and a cross-sectionally concave inner surfaceS. It will be seen that this cross-sectionally bowed portion of the impact bar adds to its strength by enabling the bar to better resist deforming thrusts, while the inner surface 8 of the end portions of the impact bars which curl around the pintles, being spaced away by reason of their concave formation from the Jintles, enables the impact bar upon receiving a thrust from an extraneous object to more readily turn on the pintles.
  • clamping members 9, 10, connected by a screw bolt 11, serve to hold the impactbars 1, 1 in vertically spaced relation adjacent their middle portions.
  • a bumper for vehicles axiallyweu tical supporting pintles; a horizontally disposed impact bar having ends curled around and swingably bearing on the pintles respectively, said ends having a crosssectionally convex outer surface and a crosssectionally concave inner surface.
  • a bumper for vehicles axially-vertical supporting pintles; a horizontally-disposed impact bar having ends curled. around and swingably bearing on the pintles respectively, said ends comprising upper and lower longitudinally-extendiug flat portions and an intermediate longitudinally-extending portion. having a ci'osseectionally convex outer surface and a cross-sectionall concave inner surface.

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Ndv. 29, 1927.
BUMPER FOR VEHICLES Filed March 1927 H. E. CLAY INVENTOR A rromvsy i atented Nov. 29, 1927.
UNITED STATES PATENT orrica.
HARVEY E. CLAY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, TO VIOLVERINE BUMPER AND SPECIALTY 00., OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.
BUMPER FOR, VEHICLEfE.
Application filed March 30, 1927. Serial No. 1'79, -42.
The present invention relates to bumpers for vehicles; and its object is, generally,to provide an improved device of that character whereby the vehicle would be protected from injuries which might otherwise result from contact with extraneous objects; and further, to provide such a device having an impact bar provided with improved strengthening means and being freely turnably mounted at its ends.
This object is attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter particularly described in the body of this specification and illus trated by the accompanying drawings, in
Figure 1 is a top plan view of a bumper for vehicles;
Figure 2 is a front or face view thereof;
Figure 3 'is a transverse sectional view of the same taken on lines 3-3 of Figures 1 and 2; and
Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view of parts thereof taken on either of the lines 4L-1 of the other views.
In the construction illustrated by said drawings, a bumper for vehicles, such as automobiles, is shown comprising horizontallydisposed spring impact bars 1 connected at their opposite ends by means of vertical pintles 2 with the supporting horizontallydisposed rear spring bar 3 which is mounted on the vehicle by suitable supports 4. In the construction illustrated the impact element comprises a pair of such bars 1, 1, the rear bar 3 extending at its ends between the adjacent ends of said impact bars. The ends of the rear bars are, in the construction shown, curled around the middle portions of the vertically-disposed pintles and thus support the same, while the ends of the impact bars 1, 1 are in like manner curled around the pintles above and below the ends of the rear bar, and swingably bear on the said pintles whenever the impact bars receive a thrust which springs the same out of normal position. These impact bars 1, 1 comprise upper and lower longitudinallyextending flat portions 5, 5 and an intermediate longitudinally-extending portion 6 which is bow-ed outwardly so that said intermediate longitudinally-extending portion has a cross-sectionally convex outer surface 7 and a cross-sectionally concave inner surfaceS. It will be seen that this cross-sectionally bowed portion of the impact bar adds to its strength by enabling the bar to better resist deforming thrusts, while the inner surface 8 of the end portions of the impact bars which curl around the pintles, being spaced away by reason of their concave formation from the Jintles, enables the impact bar upon receiving a thrust from an extraneous object to more readily turn on the pintles.
In the illustrated construction, clamping members 9, 10, connected by a screw bolt 11, serve to hold the impactbars 1, 1 in vertically spaced relation adjacent their middle portions.
The invention being intended to be point ed out in the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction of the par ticular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawings or hereinbefore described.
I claim:
1. In a bumper for vehicles: axiallyweu tical supporting pintles; a horizontally disposed impact bar having ends curled around and swingably bearing on the pintles respectively, said ends having a crosssectionally convex outer surface and a crosssectionally concave inner surface.
2. In a bumper for vehicles: axially-vertical supporting pintles; a horizontally-disposed impact bar having ends curled. around and swingably bearing on the pintles respectively, said ends comprising upper and lower longitudinally-extendiug flat portions and an intermediate longitudinally-extending portion. having a ci'osseectionally convex outer surface and a cross-sectionall concave inner surface.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Grand Rapids, Michigan, this 24th day of March, 1927.
HARVEY E. CLAY.
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