US2276592A

US2276592A - Reflecting safety device

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Publication number: US2276592A
Application number: US311331A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clara V Reitman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1939-12-28
Filing date: 1939-12-28
Publication date: 1942-03-17
Anticipated expiration: 1959-03-17

Description

Marr 17, 1942. c v, REITMAN 2,276,592

REFLECTING SAFETY DEVICE Filed Deo. 28, 19579 Patented Mar. 17, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,276,592 REFLECTING SAFETY DEVICE Clara V. Reitman, Chicago, lll.

Application December 28, 1939, Serial No. 311,331

2 Claims.

This invention relates to appliances intended for attachment to a persons clothing and of such nature that the driver of an approaching vehicle will receive a warning signal through the illumination of the device by light from the headlights of his own vehicle striking the device tand reflected back to the driver.

The main object of this invention is to provide an improved form and arrangement of such safety signal device and particularly as regards the means for attaching it to an article of clothing and the like; to provide attaching means of this kind for securely holding the reflecting device in an appropriate position on the garment regardless of whether that garment be made of textile material or of fur or leather, or other material that might be injured by attaching means that necessitate the perforating of the material; and to provide a simple and proved form of attaching means capable of securing a device of this kind in identical places on the wearers garment either by means of a stick pin or a clasp that may be used selectively and are coextensive with each other and with respect to the body of the device.

A specific embodiment of this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 illustrate the application of the device to various uses to which it is adapted.

Fig. 5 is a rear face view of the device illustrating the arrangement of its attaching means.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the pin and clasp both standing open.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation showing the manner in which the device may be applied to a textile garment.

Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the application of the device to a fur garment.

Fig. 9 is a detail of the blank from which the clasp is formed.

In the form shown in the drawing, the device comprises a body I of approximately elliptical or round-ended oblong formand having its front face equipped with suitable light-reflecting areas 2 which'may be in the usual button form, being made of appropriate transparent material with a spheroidal front face 3 and an internal surface 4 made up of a multiplicity of small areas inclined to each other so that light, as from an automobile headlight, will cause the button to appear brilliantly illuminated to the eye of an I observer in the vicinity of the headlight. Such flector button is not a limitation of the present invention, but an example thereof that is appropriate for use in the present invention may be found in Patent No. 1,807,350 issued to J. C. Stimson May 26, 1931.

On the rear face of the body; that is, the face that is turned toward the garment I provide a -stick pin 5 that is pivoted in a clevis 6 adjacent one end of the body I and extends centrally along the body lthroughout'. the greater part of its length. Adjacent the opposite end of the body is `a keeper 1 for securing the point end of the stick such manner as to securely grip a part of a garment that is interposed between them.

The arm II is provided with a spring tongue I2 that extends centrally' beyond the axis of the pivots I3 and cooperates with an abutment I4 formed o'n the clevis member, of which the lugs are a part. The height of -the lug I4 being sufcient to properly ex the spring I2 so as to apply an appropriate gripping pressure between the body and the arm II. The arm is also equipped with prongs I5 directed toward the body and for engagement with the material of the garment, as shown in Fig. 8. The arm II is provided with a keeper I6 for securing the stick pin 5 whenit lies behind the arm Il. as

for example, when it is engaged with a textile,

garment as shown in Fig. '7. This keeper I6 is also provided with the rotary latching element I1. The latch arm II is slotted at I8 to define the spring tongue I2 and the adjacent parts of the latch plate are reinforced with stiffening ribs I9 and 20.

II; will be seen from Fig. 6 that the clasp arm Il and` the stick pin 5 are so disposed that throughout the greater part of their respective lengths they may lie along the body I coextensively with each other and that either may overlie the other according to which one is to be put into use. It is especially desirable that the device be capable of being applied to the sleeve of a garment in the position in which it is shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. When it is applied in this position it is especially appropriate for use by a pedestrian when crossing a line of trafc, because it is then at the right height and right position to be illuminated in an eiiective automobile. It it is attached to a textile gar-` ment, the pin 5 is lifted as shown in Fig. 6, and

the clasp arm il is allowed to lie against the A body I as in Figet'hwith the stick pin overlying it. Then the stick pin is inserted through the material of the garment as shown in Fig. '7 and locked by the keeper I8.

In other situations, as for example, when the device is to be attached to a fur garment that would be injured by the stick pin, the pin is laid against the body i and fastened by the keeper 1 and the clasp arm Il is employed for securing the device to the garment. In this case the prongs I5 engage the lining of the garment and the tension of the spring I2 holds the device safely in position.

Although-but one speciiic embodiment of this invention is herein shown and described, it will be seen that numerous details may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of this invention as dened by the following claims.

I claim:

1. A light reecting safety device, comprising a body in the form of a brooch having on one face a suitable.medium for reecting light from of said clasp member various angles back toward its source, and having behind said ,face a clasp member hinged at one end of said brooch and extending toward the other end, a stick pin member mounted adjacent said other end of said body and extending toward said one end, said members being formed and arranged to permit either to extend over the outside of the other, and a keeper on the outside engageable with said stick pin member.

2. A light reflecting safety device, comprising a body in the form of a brooch having on one face a suitable medium for reecting light from various angles back toward its source, and having behind said face a clasp member hinged at one end of said brooch and extending toward the other end, a stick pin member mounted adjacent said other end of said body and extending toward said one end, la spring normally urging said clasp into clamping relation to said body, said members being formed and arranged to permit either to extendover the outside of the other, and a keeper on the outside of said clasp member`engageable with said stick pin member.

CLARA V. REITMAN.