US1367304A - Automobile-signal - Google Patents

Description

W. CROSSLEY.

AUTOMOBILE SIGNAL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19, 1920.

1,367,304. Patented Feb. 1,1921.

WILLIAM CROSSLEY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

AUTOMOBILE-"SIGNAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1. 1.921

Application filed July 19, 1920. Serial naasmes.

f 0 all echo-1a it may concern Be it known that I, \VILLIAM Cnossnnr, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in AutomobileSignals; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1, a view looking forward showing parts of a car including a mud-guard w1th my improved signal mounted, thereon.

Fig. 2, a plan view of my improved s1gnal partly broken away, showing the lamp projecting from the housing and indicated in position therein, by broken lines.

Fig. 3, a sectional view on the line 33, Fig. 2 looking rearward.

Fig. 4:, a sectional view on the line 47- 1 Fig. 2.

This invention relates to an improvement in automobile signals. In driving a car a common practice is to extend the hand from one side of the car to indicate that the car is about to stop or turn a corner. The object of this invention is to provide a device, adapted to be operated by the driver, and which will, when turned out at one side indicate the stopping or turning of the car, and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention I employ a housing, 10, adapted to be secured to the under side of one of the forward mudguards, 11. if, as is frequently the case, the mud-guards have a flange 12, the housing will be provided with an upward projecting lip, 13, adapted to be secured to the'flange of the mud-guards. This housing is longi tudinally bowed corresponding to the curvature of the mud-guards and may be secured thereto in any desired manner. Mounted in the housing is a disk or ratchet wheel, 14, and arranged in a horizontal position and mounted upon a projecting end, 15, is a similar ratchet-wheel or disk, 16, the disks 14 and 16 being connected by chains 17 and 18, so that when the disk 16, is turned it will correspondingly turn the disk, 14.

Mounted in ring-like bearings19 and 20, secured to the disk 14 is a tubular arm or sleeve 21, carrying atits outer end a lamp frame, 22, and to the end of the arm is mounted a socket 23, for anincandescent electric lamp bulb, 24., the wires 25 and 26, therefor leading to terminals 27 and 28, adapted to contact with strips 29 and 30, connected with binding-posts, 31 and 32, to wh ch point, wires may be connected.

in its closed position the lamp frame, 22, stands horizontally within the housing and the side of the housing is closed by a plate 33, secured to one side of the lamp frame. On the sleeve are two teeth 3 1 and 35 adapted to engage with a roller 36, mounted in the housing and in rear of the roller is a pin 37, for the purpose, as will hereinafter appear. The disk 16,'may be turned in any described manner for instance, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the disk, 16, may be connected by cords or wires 38 and 39 with the ends of a walking beam lever, 40, arranged in the bottom of the car at a convenient point of operation by the driver. When the lamp frame is in the closed position, the opening in the side of the frame 1 is closed by a slide, 41, operated by a pin,

42, extending into an engagement with chain 18. When in the closed position electric connection to the lamp is broken. When it is desired to give a signal that the car is about to stop or to turn a corner the driver operates the lever, 40, so as to turn the disk, 16, which turns the disk, l-il, moving the lamp out of the housing, and as it approaches a position at right angle thereto,

the tooth, 34, engages the roller, 36, which turns the sleeve 21, and thus the lamp frame is moved into a nearly vertical position and the movement of the lamp frame to a vertical position is completed by the engagement of the tooth 35, with the pin 37. As the lamp frame is moved outward the slide, 41, is moved rearward. As the sleeve reaches its final turned position the terminals 27 and 28 contact with the strips 29 and 30 so as to close the circuit to the lamp, thus providing a signal which may be visible at night.

A reverse movement of the lever, 4.0, returns the lamp into the housing.

I, thus provide, by simple means and readily operated by the driver, a signal which may be readily observed, either from the front or rear of the car, and avoids the necessity of the driver extending one arm to indicate his course.

I claim: i

1'. An automobile signal comprising a housing, open at one side, a disk pivotally mounted in said housing, means for turning said disk, a sleeve loosely mounted on said disk and adapted to revolve thereon, a lamp frame connected with said sleeve and a means for turning said sleeve whereby When the sleeve is turned by the disk the sleeve will be rotated to turn the lamp frame.

2. A signal comprising a housing, a disk pivotally mounted in said housing, means for turning said disk, a sleeve loosely mounted on said disk and adapted to revolve thereon a lamp frame connected with said sleeve, said sleeve provided with two fingers, a roller in the path of said fingers, whereby, when the sleeve is turned the lamp frame will be partially rotated.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM CROSSLEY.

Witnesses VERA B. DICKERMAN, Gnonen H. Tnonms.

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