US1264825A - Motor-hood. - Google Patents

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Original application filed November 17, 1915, Serial No. 619%. Divided. and this application flied may 3,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, l) Moltn LIVINGSTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State oi. New York', have invented a new and improved Motor-Hood, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This application is a division of an application. filed by me l lovember 17, 1915,

joint will be prevented 'from dripping on the motor. Water entering the hood through the top joint of the ordinary hinged hood is liable to short-circuit the spark plugs and I to otherwise produce undesirable results or lit! ill

damage. My invention provides at the top of the hood beneath the hinge joint, means forming an. effective gutter to carry to an end of. the hood, any water entering through the hinge joint so that the engine and. ignition system will be effectively protected from drip.

Incidentally, the gutter is employed in connection with a depressed hinge,'that is to say, a hinge depressed in practice to a greater or less extent to present more or less projection relatively to the general top surface of the hood. Specifically, the gutter is employed in connection with a hinge composed of a hinge pin, and hinge members formed alternately on the adjacent portions of the juxtaposed top sections of the hood, each hinge member being produced by turning the material of the hood Serial No. 166,111.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similarreference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of one example-oi the invention.

.liigure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section as far as its general. features are concerned.

The hood shown flares rearwardly and thereby the top hinge joint 25 is an incline.

I provide at the said hinge joint, at the in side thereof, a gutter 2? to receive and conduct to an end of the hood any drip passing through the joint. The gutter inclines, in the illustrated example, withthe flare of the hood so that, any water. entering the joint will collect in the gutter and be conducted forwardly past the engine, but the direction of. the pitch of the gutter is unimportant and may be determined according to a particular design of hood or particular engine installation. The joint, in the preferred construction, is formed by bending knuckles on the respective sections of the hood about a hinge pin or red 26.

The hinge is of such a form that it may be and preferably is within the general top surface of the hood to present more or less projection above the top surface, as desired, the advantage of the minimum projection being a matter solely of taste with respect to the appearance of the top surface as to Whether it should present a projection at the hinge. The manner of forming the hinge is best illustrated in Fig. 3, in which it will be seen that each hinge member (25) is formed by hendingthe material directly downward. from the body of a hood. section. 18 at the near side of the hinge pin 26 and carryimg, the hingemember in rounded form beneath the hinge pin to the far side and then over the top of the pin, the hinge member being returned into close proximity with. the body of the hood section. on which it is formed. With a hinge as thus formed the adjacent hood sections 18 may swing through a considerable angle before the one section isarrested by contact with the other section. "The hinge, it is to be noted, forms part of the general top surface of the hood regardless of the extent to which the hinge is depressed. Also, it will be observed that the hinge is disposed directly between the juxtaposed hood sections and that the gutter is directly beneath the hinge elements.

Notwithstanding that the hinge as thus formed collects water and directs it through the joint, water is prevented by the described gutter from injuriously affecting the ignition system. V

The gutter 27 in practice, advantageously is curved transversely as best seen in Fig. 3 and a lateral extension or flange at one side thereof is suitably secured to one section of the hood 18 as by rivets 28 or other means, the gutter extending beneath the hinge joint to the opposite side thereof. The gutter thereby is spaced from the hinge for the ready flow of the drip and the arrangement is such as to insure clearance.

The hinge joint 25 at the sides of the hood may e of any approved character.

I wish to state in conclusion that although the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodiment of my invention, I do not limit myself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since'manifestly the same can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and-desire to secure by Letters patent:

1. A motor hood having a hinge joint at the top thereof, and a gutter on said hood at the interior thereof, beneath the hinge joint. I

2. A motor hood having a longitudinal hinge joint at the top thereof and a gutter connected with the hood at one side of the said joint and extending beneath the hinge joint toward the opposite side thereof.

3. A motor hood formedof sections and having a longitudinal depressed hinge joint atthe top, and a gutter attached to one hood section at one side of the joint and extending transversely beneath the hinge members, said gutter following generally the lines of the hinge and being spaced from the hinge members.

4. A motor hood having a hinge joint at the top thei'eof, and a gutter on said hood at the interior thereof beneath the said hin e joint, the said gutter inclining downward y from the rear end to the front end of the hood.

5. A motor hood formed of sections and including a hinge joint at the top of the hood, and a gutter on said hood beneath the hinge joint, said hinge joint being composed of a hinge pin and hinge members on the respective hood sections directly between juxtaposed. portions thereof.

6. A motor hood formed of sections and including a hinge joint at the top of the hood, the hinge joint being depressed and disposed directly between the juxtaposed hood sections; together with a gutter on the hood beneath said depressed hinge joint.

7. A motor hood composed of sections, and a hinge comprised of a hinge pin and hinge members on the respective hood sections, each hinge member composed of material extending about the pin at the under side, to the far si e and over the top of the pin toward the sect on on which said hinge member is formed, said hinge fo ming part of the top surface of the hoodand being dcpressed below the general top surface.

8. A motor hood including two sections presenting opposed portions at the top of the hood, a gutter on the hood beneath both of said opposed portions to catch drip passing between 'the same, and means establishing a hinge connection between said sections directly above the gutter.

9. A motor hood including two sections presenting opposed portions at the top of the hood, a gutter on the hood beneath both of said portions to catch drip passing between the same, and means establishing a hinge connection between said sections.

D McRA LIVINGSTON.

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