Windshield wiper assembly

• US 3,317,946 A
• Filed: 06/30/1964
• Issued: 05/09/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John W. Anderson
• Original Assignee: John W. Anderson
• Inventors: Anderson, John W.
• Application Number:
  US04/379,081
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• US Class Current: 15/250.201
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3801 characterised by a blade support harness consisting of several articulated elements B60S1/3803, B60S1/3806 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3806 Means, or measures taken, for influencing the aerodynamic quality of the wiper blades

Claims

1. A WINDSHIELD WIPER ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A WIPER BLADE ELEMENT CONFORMABLE TO BOTH FLAT AND CURVED SURFACES AND HAVING OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED THEREWITH A PRESSURE-DISTRIBUTING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY ARTICULATED MEMBERS ADAPTED TO DISTRIVUTE PRESSURE, FROM A WIPER ARM TO RELATIVELY LIMITED SPACED-APART AREAS ON SAID WIPER ELEMENT AND IN A DIRECTION TOWARDS SAID WINDSHIELD, ONE OF SAID MEMBERS HAVING LONGITUDINAL PORTIONS LATERALLY AND DOWNWARDLY SPACED PROGRESSIVELY AWAY FROM A PLANE DEFINED BY THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE WIPER BLADE ELEMENT AND THE UPPERMOST PORTION OF SAID ONE MEMBER, SAID PORTIONS HAVING, ADJACENT THEIR LOWER LINEAR EDGES, LONGITUDINALLY CHANNELED ELEMENTS WHEREBY TO TURN REVERSINGLY UPWARD, AIR FLOWING GENERALLY DOWNWARDLY THEREUPON, WHEREBY TO INCREASE DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON THE BLADE AS THE VELOCITY OF AIR IMPINGING THEREON INCREASES.