US979508A - Headlight-screen. - Google Patents

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the inven unrrsn PATENT oFFIoEI SAMUEL shuns, or FREMONT, oHIo.

To all whom it concern zen of the :United Sta-tes, residing* at Frea mont, in] the county of 'Sandusky and. State ofOhio,-have invented a new and useful Iniproveinent in HeadlighteScreens', of which the following is aspecification; I g This invention relates to a screen for electrio. headlights,

for use with-headlightscarried byintemrban Jcars. These and brilliancy and there" are Ymany. laces where the local regulations either orbid their use or require 'that'they be screened. s

Y ,The object of thisinventionjis to provide means fo hr wing a' screen either'into op- L erative or inoperative" position without achandhng the'screen itself, 'or without ing,;etc., and a. further object of 1 ""tion is, toi so' arrange the screenwthat when "not .in use-{for the light it w-ill act as .a' part of the'reflector.

' 'With these objects in view, my invention 'tion hereinafter fully described, pointed out in theclaim'sand shown in the accompanying drawings, in. which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section, partsbeing; shown inside elevation-and the sjcreei i being shown in inoperative p'ositi'on. Fig. 2 I

shown various ways of operating the screen is a similar view showing thescreen elevated in front of the arc. -'Figs; 3 and 4 are 1 similarviews; illustrating 'modificatio l'is in theinanner 0f operatingthe screen.

" 'ifl'In these drawings 1 represents thehead light casing which contains a; suitable re-.

and is especially designed lights are of great power positio shown in, Fig.

In oFlg. '3 -I have shown the screen oper-l purpose of screening the I consists in the novel features of construe positionshown in Figs. 1,'-3-and-4-, I

1 preferably i Letters Patented Dec, 27, 1910. Apblicati'onhledfam 1.49191? v which is pivotally' connectedan operating reflector 2 and bears electro-m'agnet 8 islpla ced beneath the armature is provided with suitable electric conductors p9 and 10, leading 'froln a'ny suitable source of power. "through said pon the closing of the circuit conductors 9 and 10 the mag- .netj-S will be energized and will draw down the armature, :thuslifting the rod 7 which I int-urn will elevate the 'screen 'i nto the ated by direct pull of screen having connected thereto an-angled arm- 11' carrying an armature 12 which is attractedby the magnet.

I In Fig; 4 I 'havefillustrated afurther modification 1 of the means the-electro1nagnet,8 a solenoid 13,the core of which is co'nnected to ;nected at'its upper 'endto an angledarm 16 carried by the screen t.

end of the lever.6 and i I for operating the screen; wh ch consists in substituting for chain 14 which runs under a pulley 15 and which is con-c p I 1 Inou nt'ed an armature lever hto'one end of l 'Be it known that LS MUELJONES, a c'i'tirod 7 which works upwardly through the upon-the surface of the magnet, the said In all of these various forms the energizv .ing' of. the electro-magnetlifts the screen" into a position to shield the arc.

In order to illustrate the invention, I have by electro-ma'gne'ts, but'I do not desire-to liniit myself to such. specific means as it might be advisable to substitute other means.

In the case of electrically propelled cars this manner would be the logical compressed air, with compressed air brakes, means could readlly consist of or by gasolene and equipped the operating 'ing'forwardly and downwardly andreflectof operating the screen, but if the cars were driven by a compressed airv cylinder in place of theelectro-magnet l. The combination'with a headlight, of a ing' portions of the light rays forwardly,

and means for elevatingsaid screen.

.'2. The cbmbination. with" d "refletdf, 0i 5-; Surface, and means p erible fro'incar" foi' plafaite hingedfdinlthegower porgon of'sgid. lifting said screen;- re ector sai pate. eing in a yanqe 9 a v light als o'an'anged within the reflector, the SAMUEL 5 said "laternorma'lly lying ii; a; downwardly Witnesses:

' C. F. HJLL,

" and orwapzfly inclined osition-and in send .pdsition forming a portlon of the l eflecting E. D. KELLEY.

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