Rear view mirrors for vehicles

• US 3,189,309 A
• Filed: 07/12/1963
• Issued: 06/15/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Albert P. Hager
• Original Assignee: Albert P. Hager
• Inventors: Hager, Albert P.
• Application Number:
  US04/294,487
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• US Class Current: 248/478
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/078 easily removable; mounted for bodily outward movement, e.g. when towing

Claims

1. A REAR VIEW MIRROR FOR A VEHICLE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A SUPPORT TUBE AFFIXED TO SAID VEHICLE, SAID TUBE INCLUDING A VERTICALLY DISPOSED PORTION, A MIRROR HEAD INCLUDING A CASING, A MIRROR GLASS MOUNTED WITHIN SAID CASING, A REINFORCING MEMBER EXTENDING VERTICALLY THROUGH SAID CASING BETWEEN THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS THEREOF FOR EXERTING AN INWARD FORCE UPON THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS OF SAID CASING, A PORTION OF SAID REINFORCING MEMBER EXTENDING TO ONE SIDE OF SAID CASING INTERMEDIATE THE TOP AND BOTTOM THEREOF, A FIRST PIVOT MEMBER POSITIONED IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE AND EXTENDING FROM SAID PORTION OF SAID REINFORCING MEMBER OUT OF SAID CASING, SAID FIRST PIVOT BEING RIGIDLY CONNECTED TO SAID REINFORCING MEMBER AND A SECOND PIVOT MEMBER MOUNTED UPON SAID SUPPORT TUBE AND CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST PIVOT MEMBER, SAID FIRST PIVOT MEMBER BEING ADAPTED TO ALLOW THE CASING TO PIVOT ABOUT