Vehicle windshield washer

• US 3,230,564 A
• Filed: 12/16/1963
• Issued: 01/25/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert E. Mcdevitt
• Original Assignee: Robert E. Mcdevitt
• Inventors: Mcdevitt, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US04/330,907
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• US Class Current: 15/250.04
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3415 with means for supplying cleaning fluid to windscreen cleaners, e.g. washers arrangement of nozzles B60S1/52
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/528 the spreading means being moved between a rest position and a working position B60S1/526 takes precedence

Claims

7. FOR USE IN PROVIDING A VEHICLE WINDSHIELD WIPER WITH MEANS TO DISPENSE LIQUID, THE COMBINATION INCLUDING, A HOLLOW SHAFT FOR SUPPORTING A WIPER BLADE ARM, A TUBE SLIDABLE LONGITUDINALLY IN SAID SHAFT, ONE END OF SAID TUBE HAVING A RADIALLY ENLARGED PORTION FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH ONE END OF SAID SHAFT TO PROVIDE CLOSURE MEANS FOR THE INTERIOR OF THE SHAFT, SAID TUBE ALSO HAVING A RADIALLY DIRECTED ORIFICE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE INTERIOR THEREOF AND POSITIONED WITHIN THE INTERIOR OF THE SHAFT WHEN SAID CLOSURE MEANS IS EFFECTIVE, MANUAL CONTROL MEANS, AND MECHANICAL CONNECTOR MEANS BETWEEN SAID MANUAL CONTROL MEANS AND SAID SLIDABLE TUBE.

12. IN A VEHICLE WINDSHIDLE WASHER, CONDUIT MEANS HAVING A NOZZLE, SUPPORT MEANS TO POSITION THE NOZZLE TO DIRECT LIQUID ON A WINDSHIELD, AND EXTERIOR CLOSURE MEANS RELATIVELY MOVABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE SUPPORT MEANS FOR THE NOZZLE TO PREVENT THE ENTRY OF CONTAMINATION WHEN NOT IN USE, MANUAL CONTROL KNOB MEANS POSITIONED ADJACENT THE VEHICLE OPERATOR'"'"''"'"'S STATION, AND CABLE MEANS CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID CLOSURE MEANS AND SAID MANUAL CONTROL KNOB MEANS.