US1898919A - Direction indicator - Google Patents

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 21 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT? OFFICE DIRECTION INDICATOR Application filed August 4, 1932. Serial No. 627,516. g

The object of the invention is to provide a direction indicator applicable to all forms of cars and positioned so that it is made operative through the rear window of the car; to provide a device of the kind indicated in which the actuating means are positioned adjacent the drivers seat for ready actuation by him; and to provide a device'which is of simple form, susceptible of cheap manufacture and of a character that will permit its installation without the necessity for experience or mechanical skill on the part of the party making such installation.

With this object in view, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawing but to which embodiment the invention is not to be restricted. Continued use in practice may dictate certain changes or alterations and the right is claimed to make any which fall within the scope of the annexed claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the interior of a closed car, showing the invention applied in operative position.

Figure 2 is an exterior View of the rear window of the car, showing the manner in which the device is exposed in operation, the companion signal for opposite turning being indicated in dotted lines.

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail elevational view of one of the signal elements shown in exposed or operative position, the inoperative position being indicated in dotted lines.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the actuating means.

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the direction guides.

The invention is of a character to permit its application to an automobile directly above the rear window 10 and consists of a plate 11 to the rear face of which are pivotally connected the links 12, the links being connected at their extremities with the plate 11 on a medial longitudinal line of the latter. The remote ends of the links 12 are pivotally connected to a hanger bar 14 which is secured in the body of the car above the rear window in any acceptable manner.

The plate 11 is imprinted or impressed on its front face with an arrow in which appears the word Turn.

Since the invention contemplates signalling for turns in either direction, two of the plates 11 are employed with their suspending means and are postioned adjacent opposite ends of the window 10, as illustrated in Figure 1. The two plates are identical except that the arrow on the one is reversed with respect to the arrow on the other. e

The links 12 provide free swinging movement of the plates from the hanger bar, so that if unrestrained, they will hang below the upper edge of the window 10 and be ex- 5,

posed through the glass thereof. The plates may be elevated, however, by applying a pull laterally, when they are raised above the upper end of the window, as illustrated with respect to one of the plates in Figure 1.

, The means for effecting raising movement of the plates consists of flexible members 15 of which each is terminally secured to the one in advance of the other but are identical in form and each consists of a base plate 20 on which is mounted a guide bar 21 with its extremities turned laterally and anchored in the base portion. On the guide bar is slid- .ably mounted the sleeve 22 to which the pull cord or flexible member 15 is anchored. The sleeve carries a finger engaging loop 23, preferably of triangular form. V

The base plate is secured to the car body and adjacent its forward end is provided. with an abutment member for engagement with the loop 23, the forward face of the abutment member being fiat but the rear face being inclined. In the lower or signalling position of the plates 11, the sleeves 22 are at the rear ends of the guide bars 21. In the nonsignalling position, the sleeves are at the forward ends of the guide bars to which they are moved by the operator engaging his 5 fingers with the loops 23 and forcing the sleeves forwardly, when the loops engage the inclined faces of the abutment members 24, by which they are deflected, until they pass beyond the abutment members, when they drop in behind the flat faces thereof. The engagement of the loops 23 against the flat faces of the abutment members, holds the signalling plates in the normal or ino erative position of the latter. To release the signal, therefore, it is only necessary to pull the loop 23 of the selected signal laterally, until, it is freed of the abutment, thereafter releasing the loop, when the gravital tend a, oucy of the plate moves it to signalling posio tion. To raise the plate to the inoperative oanonsignalling position, movement of the sleeve toward the forward end of the bar 23 is all that is necessary, the abutment member 24 automatically effecting the lateral 25 swingingmovement of the loop 23 to dispose it behind the abutment.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is: r I 1. direction indicator comprising a sigso nalling member shiftable into and out of signailing position, a pull member for effecting such movement, and an actuating member comprising a base plate, a guide mounted thereon, a member movable longitudinally of-the guide and connected with the pull member and having a laterally projecting element, the base plate having an abutment engageable with said laterally rojecting ,q element and formed with an inc ined edge it to deflect said element behind said abutment when said member is moved longitudinally of said ide. Y 2. A irection indicator comprising a signailing member shiftable into and out of sig- 43 nallin position, apull member for effecting such fififting movement, and an actuating member comprising a base plate, a guide bar mounted thereon and a sleeve mounted on ,1 the ide bar and connected with the pull 5 mom r, the sleeve having a pendent finger piece and the base plate having an abutment dis d adjacent one end of the guide bar an formed with one flat face and an adjapr} cent inclined face for deflecting the finger '65 piece laterally to dispose it beside and adjacent the flat face.

In testimony whereof he ailixes his signature. n JOHN E. WAASER, S3.

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