US1653208A - Antiglare device - Google Patents

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E. c. GRAY ANTIGLARE DEVICE Filed Feb.4, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 I INVENTOR ATYORNEY WITNESS:

Dec. 20, 1927.

E. C. GRAY ANTIGLARE DEVICE Filed Feb.4, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 3 1 m OI Earl 6'. Gray .NVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Patented Dec. 20, 1927 UNITED STAT-sis EAR-LC. GRAY, OF ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI.

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2 Application filed 1ebruary4, 1927. erial; No. 165,947.

The object of this invention is to provide special means for preventing the driver of a motor vehicle from becomingtemporarily blinded by a brilliant headlight on an approaching car,.t he device employed for this purpose being efficient, inexpensive, eas ly mounted, and of such'constr'uctionlthat [it causes no interference with driving, either by daylight or after dark.

A further object is to; provide a device including a frameadapted to carry colored glass and providing a screen or shield, so that the brilliant rays of light from the headlight of an approachingcar may be rendered harmless to the eyes of the driver ofthe car carrying the protecting element.

A further object is to provide a special form of shield or screen operating mechanism.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of elements described, illustrated and claimed, it being understood that modifications may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming part of this application,

Figure 1 is a view showing a portion of a body of a closed-motor vehicle, with the attachment forming the subject matter of the present application mounted at the side of the wind-shield, the latter not being directly shown, but its position being understood.

Figure 2 is a view in elevation, showing the screen or shield and the mounting means therefor, the scale being considerably larger than that employed in Figure 1, for showing the attachment.

Figure 8 shows in vertical longitudinal sec tion the bracket by means of which the shield or screen is mounted on'a stationary element of the vehicle, the said element being'broken away, and the operating means being fully illustrated.

Figure 4: is a fragmentary View in vertical section, transversely of the rotary element vice 15 extends.

vioed .with a handle or. knob 16 at its outer Figure 6 is a perspective view of the rotary clement.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of the flat spring illustrated in Figures and elsewhere, 2

and designed to bear on the fiat sides of the element of Figure 6, in order that the screen rigid with thisrotary element may be retained in predetermined positions.

The bracket 10 includes an upper outwardly extending element formed with a base 11 which is adapted to beattaohed by securing devices such as 12to an element 13 forming a part of the stationary structure.

This element last named is provided with a bore 14 thru which the flexible operating de- This element- '15 is proing provided at 10 for the accommodation of element 15 and tube 14 which loosely passes thru said opening, and which also passes thru a guiding device 17 mounted in the position illustrated, and from this point 17 the element 15 is deflected upwardly.

The outer portion ofthe bracket mounting the protecting element constitutes a housing a or casing and is designated 20, including substantially vertical walls and a curved wall 21. A detachable cover 22 is mounted on the upper part of a housing 20, and a horizontal shaft or rotary element 23 is carried in bearings such as 24, 24 in the oppositely located walls of the housing.

Thisshaft or rotary element includes cylindrical portions at the points of bearing,

and includes an intermediate portion having flat faces 27 and 28 on which a spring or resilient element 30 bears. This spring 30 is securedat one end, as shown at 31, v

and it is obvious that, being in engagement with shaft 23, on one of its faces, the shaft will be resiliently held in the position corcross section. This frame 36 mounts or inshall beheld at i closes the glass plate 88, the glass being colored for properly shielding the eyes of the driver of the car carrying the device, from the brilliant rays of any undimmed headlight.

The rotary device or shaft 23 carries a rigidly mounted arm 40 pivotally connected with arm 41, and the flexible element 15 is connected with said member 11 by means of a retaining device positioned at 4:2. The flexible device or wire 15 may pass thru a flexible tube 14:, so that there will be no obstruction to the free movement of wire 14. r

The device thus constructed is of special value in actual use, the operatlon being obvious, namely, that the screen 1s elevated by I movementrabout the axis of rotary element 23, as the latter is operated or caused to 1'0- tate thru a given angle by exerting tension on wire 1%, the-latter being controlled by knob or handle 16. The retaining device 452 permits of adjustment between elements 14: and 41 for controlling the movement of arm 40 and the extent of rotation of the shaft 28 on which the "anti-glare device per se is mounted.

Having described the invention what is claimed is z 1. In a device of the class described, an

anti-glare element including an arm, a rotat able member mounting the arm, sald member havlng annular bearing surfaces and angular intermediate surfaces, a resilient element adapted to engage the angular portions, a second arm connected with the ro- I tatable element, a housing for mounting this element, a supporting bracket formed with the housing, and means extending thru the bracket and housing for operating the rotatable element."

2. In a device of the class described, a rotatable element including flat surface'portions, an anti-glare device carried by said element, a. resilient member adapted to bear on the flat surfaces, an arm mounted radially of the rotatablevelement, a second arm pivotally connected with that first named, 'a flexible device connected with the EARL o. GRAY.

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