US1306093A - Directioit-indicatob - Google Patents

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H. H. BANKS.

DIRECTION INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17. 1918 l fifififl 3 Patented June 10, 1919.

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H, H. BANKS.

DIRECTION INDlCATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 191B.

Patented J 111110 10, 1919.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- HELENA H. BANKS, OF AMES, IOWA.

DIRECTION-INDICATOR.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 10, 1919.

Application filed. July 1'7, 1918. Serial No. 245,351.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HELENA H. BANKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ames, in the county of Story and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Direction-Indicators, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a. corner signal or a signaling device for indicating the direction of travel of an automobilist.

The object of the invention is the provision of simple and eflicient means on an automobile, readily operated by a driver of a machine, for indicating which direction the machine is to take in traveling over intersecting streets.

With this and other objects in view the invention involves certain novel constructions and combinations as shall more fully appear in the following specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a fragmentary view of an automobile, showing in side elevation, an apparatus constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary front view of an automobile showing particularly the position of the wind shield with my swinging lamps, and their supports, attached to the wind shield frame; while Fig. 3 is substantially a top plan view of the signaling device shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. f is a perspective view of one of the lamp supporting brackets.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 designates the floor or body of the automobile, and 2-2 the frame or rods of the wind shield structure.

Under the steering wheel 3 1 preferably arrange the foot devices for operating my signal lamps and I have provided two of these foot devices, one for each lamp at each side of the wind shield. Each foot device comprises a plate 4, having a depending apertured lug 5, and at 6 I pivotally mount bracket 7 which has an upwardly extending lip 8 and a depending lip 9. Pivotally secured to the upper lip 8 is the foot plunger 10, and fastened at 11 to the lower lip 9, is the lower end of cable 12. The cable or connecting means 12 is passed through the pulley block 13, fastened at 14:, to the frame of the automobile, and the upper end of the cable or fastening means 12 is attached to the bottom of the swinging lamp 15; this attaching of the cable 12 is preferably near the inner end of the bottom so that when the lamp is in its projected position by being swung outwardly, inward pull exerted upon the cable 12 will cause the lamp to swing upwardly and into a vertical position, which vertical position is its normal position when not used for signaling.

Each lamp 15 is pivotally mounted, at 16, between the parallel lugs 17 (Fig. 4:) at the outer end of the lamp bracket 18. The lamp bracket 18 comprises a body plate 19, and a flat upper face 20, havin a threaded lug 21, that receives screw 22, wich screw 22 holds the leaf spring 23 secured to lug 21. The inner end of the lamp bracket 18 is slitted, as at 24., and terminates in a pair of clamping lips 25, which lips 25 are adapted to surround the rod or frame 2, as shown clearly in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. A tightening thumb bolt 26 is threaded through registering apertures 27 on the split or bifurcated portion of the lamp bracket, and by tightening the bolt 26 the bracket will be securely fastened upon the wind shield. frame.

Spring 27 is attached at one end to the lip 8 and at its other end to the depending lug 5, and this spring is stronger than the leaf spring 23 so that when the operator removes his foot from off the plunger 10, spring 27 will. return the lamp from its horizontal, extended position to its vertical position, since the leaf spring 23 is only used to tilt the lamp when the operator has depressed the plunger 10.

On the glass or transparent portion 28 of each lamp suitable words may be placed for indicating purposes, and the lamps can easily be supplied, through the electric wire or cable 29, with current for illuminating purposes; I do not make any specific claim for the illumination of the lamps, hence the electric cables 29 are merely shown to indicate a complete apparatus, as any old and practicable form of illumination of the signal may be adopted, as best suits the constructor or operator of a car upon which my signaling apparatus is mounted.

What I claim is:

1. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with an automobile body and a wind shield frame, of a lamp bracket attached to said Wind shield frame, said lamp bracket comprising a body-plate provided at its outer end with a pair of apertured lugs, and at its inner end with" a' slitted or bifurcated portion terminating in clamping lips, said body plate provided near the slitted portion with registered apertures, a tightening bolt threaded into said apertures, said body plate provided With-a fiattened upper portion, and a threaded lug eX- tending from said upper portion, a. leaf spring positioned against saidthreaded lug, ascrew threaded into said lug and fastening said spring thereto,a signal lamp pivotally mounted between said lugs at the outer end of the bracket, said lamp adapted to be moved to a-horizontal, extended-- position'by the-action ofthe leaf, spring upon-its bottom, and manually-operated means carried by the body of the automobileand connected to said signaling lamp for controlling its movement Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the and normally holding the lamp in a vertical,

inoperative position.

pivotally mounted upon the outer end of said bracket, a spring attached to the bracket between the bottom of said lamp and the upper portion of the bracket, for normally pivoting the lamp to a horizontal signaling position, and spring-held, foot-operated means carried by the body and connected to the inner end of the bottomof the signaling lamp for normallyholding the'signaling lamp in a vertical position and compressed ,against the spring carried by the bracket.

'In testimony WhereofI hereunto afliX my signature. --LENA BANKS.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G.

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