US990784A - Bulb-protector. - Google Patents

Description

M. G. SCHLOTBORN.

BULB PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.10.1910.

990,784. Patented Apr. 25, 1911.

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Specification of Letiters iate nt. Patented APT- 25, 1911- Application filed November 10, 1910. Serial Ito. 591,662.

To all whom it may concern;-

.Be it known that I, MAX G; SoHLo'rBonN,

a'citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg,'in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have in- Vented certain new and useful Improve- I 'the bulb 4. comprises a of which the folreference being ments in Bulb-Protectors, lowing is a specification, had therein to the especially designed for protecting and shielding the bulbs of automobile horns.

The rimary object of the invention is to provide a metallic hood or shield that can be easily and quickly mounted over the flexible bulb of an automobile horn to prevent the same from being injured or tampered with by juveniles.

A further object ofthe invention is to provide a protectoror shieldof the above type, that is simple inconstruction, durable, inexpensive to manufacture, and efficient for the purposes for which it. is intended.

I attain the above objects by a mechanical construction that will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed, and reference willnow be had to the drawin wherein there is illustrated a preferred em odiment of the invention, but it; is to be understood that the structural elements thereof are susceptible to such chan sco e of the appende claims. p

n the drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of an automobile showing the protector or shield in position. is an enlarged vertical sectionalview of the protector or shield applied to a bulb.- Fig. 3 is an elevation of a detached protector'or shield in an open position. Fig. 4 is a similar view of a portion of the protector or shield in a closed osition, and Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectionahview of the same- In the drawing the reference numeral 1 denotes the body of an automobile provided with a horn 2 having a flexible tubing?)v in communication with a bulb 4.,

The/protector or shield used for inclosing sectional hood, the sections 5 and 6 each corresponding in shape to approximately one-half the bulb 4, the sections when connected having a balloon shape and when separated each section having the upper end thereof corresponding to the quarter of a hollow sphere and the opposite end gradually tapering. to a .neck.

accompanying drawingf This invention relates to a bulb protector edge thereof cut-away,

I ployed, and this es as fall within the- Fig. 2

- automobile;

flexible compressible v The confronting edges of the sections "5 and- 6 are flanged, as at 7, and the upper edges of said sections are hinged or pivotally connected together, as at 8. The lower ends of the .sectionszterminate in semi-cylindrical members 9 and 10, which when brought together form a sleeve hood. The member 9 has oneedge thereof cut-away, as at 11, and the member 10 one cut-away edges providlng. a verticalslot 13 when the members'9 and 10 are brought together. The upper end of the slot 13 is ada ted to communicate with a bayonet slot.

14-tormed in the member 10.

To retain the members 9 and 10 together in the-form 'of'a slee've,a collali 15 1s emcollar is provided with an inwardly projecting button or headed pin 16 adapted to ride upwardly in tlieslot 13 and engage in the bayonet-shaped slot 14: whereby the collar 15 will,.be locked infingagement with the members 9 and 10'and said members embracing the upper end of v the tube 3 and the lower end of the bulb 4.

The section 5 has the edges thereof provided with guide-ffiangesfl soldered or otherwise connected, as at 18, to the .sections 5, saidguide flanges guiding the ed es of the section 6 into engagement with the section 5, as best shown in Fig.5 of the drawings. The collar 15 is placed over the upper end "of the tube 3 prior to securing a bulb to said tube, consequently the collar cannot become accidentally displaced and it is always in easy reach of the operator of the automobile whlen it is desired tolock the hood upon the bu b.

The protector or' shield is made" of light at'the lower end of the as at 12, these two and durable metal and can be finished to V harmonize with the'metallic fittings of the 'What I claim, is:

, 1. A protector of the type described comprising sections having the u of pivotally connected toget per ends thereer, semi-cylindrical members carried by the lower ends of 'saidsections, a collar mounted upon {said members to retain said sections together, and said collar and members provided with means for detachably'securmg the collar upon the members.

2'. A- bulb protector comprising a sectional hood, with the sections thereof hinged together and each section corresponding in shape to approximately one-half of the bulb,

gether and to slide over said members to retain said sections together, a bayonet slot connection between said members and said collar, and guide flanges carried by one-of said sections and adapted to guide the other of said sections into'engage'ment therewith.

4. A bulb protector comprising two sections having the upper ends thereof hinged together, guide flanges carried by one of said sections and adapted to-guide the other section into engagement therewith, semi-cylindrical members carried by-the lower ends of said sections, one of said members having a bayonet-shaped slot formed therein, a collar adapted to slide over said members, and a button carried by said collar and adapted to ride into said bayonet-shaped slot to retain said collar upon said members.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

MAX G. SCHLOTBORN;

VVitneSses:

CHRISTINA T. H001), EVA A. MILNE.

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