Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
  • G01F23/00—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F23/00—Advertising on or in specific articles, e.g. ashtrays, letter-boxes
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F7/00—Signs, name or number plates, letters, numerals, or symbols; Panels or boards
  • G09F7/18—Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure
  • G09F2007/1856—Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure characterised by the supporting structure
  • G09F2007/1869—Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure characterised by the supporting structure plates fixed to instruments

Definitions

• a measuring instrument preferably for watercraft
• the present invention relates to a measuring instrument, preferably for watercraft, e.g. for indicating fuel volume, voltage, oil pressure and the like, comprising an instrument body, an indicator dial and a transparent front plate which covers the indicator dial.
• the object of the present invention is to provide an instrument, or gauge, of the aforesaid kind which can be made completely watertight and which can nevertheless be "tailor made” t ⁇ s ⁇ r ⁇ extent with regard to its aesthetic appearance, e.g. so as to conform with the engine in ⁇ stallation for which the instrument is intended.
• This object is achieved in accordance with the invention in that the transparent front plate is permanently fixed to the instrument body and/or the dial, and in that a separate decoration strip/decoration panel covers a part of the front plate.
• an instrument manufacturer is able to deliver instruments of a basic design to different engine manu ⁇ facturers and supply decoration strips or panels which bear the name or trade mark of the various engine manu ⁇ facturers, so that each engine manufacturer or engine installation contractor is able to place, e.g., his name on the instrument, simply by snap-fitting his personal decoration strip onto the transparent front plate of the instrument. It is also possible to supply a variety of decoration strips or panels directly to the customer, so as to enable different tastes, with regard to the aeste- thic appearance of the instrument installation, to be satisfied to a greater extent than was previously possible, -
• Fig. 1 is a partially sectioned side view of an inventive measuring instrument or gauge
• Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the ringed area in Fig. 1;
• Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a front plate with a decoration strip attached thereon.
• the illustrated instrument, or gauge may be a moving coil instrument for indicating fuel volume, voltage, amperage, oil pressure, water coolant temperature or the like, and includes a cylindrical instrument casing or body 1 which houses a moving coil and associated electrical components.
• a dial 2 is attached to an attachment plate 3 on the in ⁇ strument casing 1 and is covered by a transparent front plate 4.
• the plate 3, the dial 2 and the front plate 4 of the illustrated embodiment are square in shape and the front plate 4 has a centrally located circular part 5 which has a spherically cupped surface in the otherwise flat surface thereof (of Fig. 3).
• the front plate 4 suitably comprises a plastics material and is glued or welded permanently to the attachment plate
• the instrument is intended to be fitted into a circular aperture in an instrument panel, with the aid of a U-shaped bracket structure 8 and two nuts 9 which are screwed into two screws 10 firmly connected to the body of the instrument.
• a decoration strip or panel shown generally at 11 covers the lower part of the front plate 4.
• the decoration strip 11 of the illustrated embodiment is trough-shaped and grips around the lower part of the front surface of the front plate 4 and the rear side of the attachment plate 3.
• the parts 12, 13 of the front plate and the attachment plate 3 overlapped by the decoration strip 11 are recessed, so that the outer sur- face of the decoration strip 11 is flush with surfaces adjacent thereto, so as to obtain a smooth and even transition between said surfaces.
• the part 12 of the front plate 4 and the part 13 of the plate 3 are each provided with a respective groove 1*1 nriri 15.
• the decoration strip or panel 11 has corresponding beads 16 and 17 on its mutually opposing inner surfaces.
• the strip 11 is conveniently made of a springy, resilient plastics material, so as to enable mutually opposing wall sections of the strip or panel 11 to be first pressed apart and then allowed to spring back with the beads 16, 17 snapping into the grooves 1 , 15, when the trough- -shaped decoration strip is fitted to the instrument panel by moving the strip up over the recessed parts 12, 13 of the front plate 4 and the attachment plate 3.
• connection can be further strengthened by placing a piece of double-sided adhesive tape in the bottom of the trough of the trough-shape de ⁇ coration strip.

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• Displays For Variable Information Using Movable Means (AREA)
• Details Of Measuring And Other Instruments (AREA)

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