SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLE WITH SAFETY BUMPER

• US 3,560,922 A
• Filed: 11/02/1967
• Issued: 02/02/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1967
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kenneth A Wilson
• Original Assignee: Kenneth A Wilson
• Inventors: Wilson, Kenneth A.
• Application Number:
  US04/680,129
• Time in Patent Office: 1,188 Days
• US Class Current: 340/436
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/02 Bumpers, i.e. impact receiving or absorbing members for protecting vehicles or fending off blows from other vehicles or objects B60R19/56 takes precedence; initiating brake action by contact of bumper with an external object B60T7/22; for rail vehicles B61F19/04; safety equipment for cycles B62J27/00; integral with waterborne vessels or specially adapted therefor B63B59/02
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 5/13 Arrangements having a single output and transforming input signals into pulses delivered at desired time intervals

Abstract

THE SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLE DISCLOSED HEREIN COMPRISES A SAFETY BUMPER INCLUDING SPACED FLEXIBLE SHEET MEMBERS WITH A SWITCH INTERPOSED THEREBETWEEN WHEREBY WHEN AN OBSTACLE IS ENCOUNTED, THE OUTERMOST BUMPER IS MOVED TOWARD THE INNERMOST BUMPER TO CLOSE SAID SWITCH AND PRODUCE A STOP SIGNAL. MEANS ARE PROVIDED SO THAT IN THE EVENT OF CLOSURE OF THE SWITCH OR BREAKING OF ANY OF THE LEADS TO THE SWITCH, A STOP SIGNAL IS PRODUCED.

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