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MOUNTING MEANS

  • US 3,703,270 A
  • Filed: 10/20/1970
  • Issued: 11/21/1972
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1970
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A safety rear-view mirror assembly for vehicles, including a blow-releasable connection means between the mirror and the base part by means of which the mirror assembly is adapted to be secured to the vehicle, said blow-releasable connection means comprising first and second separable parts, said first part being provided with an undercut head, the underside of the head being inwardly sloping and having a shoulder extending outwardly adjacent the termination of the inwardly sloping underside of the head, and said second part comprising a member of resilient plastics material having a socket cavity in which said undercut head of the first part is fitted, said socket cavity having a mouth of smaller size than said head, the plastics material at said mouth being expandable to allow said head to be forced therethrough to separate the two parts, said shoulder, when said head is fitted in said socket cavity, abutting parts of the surface of the moulding around the mouth of the socket cavity which constitute with said shoulder a fulcrum about which said first and second parts can rock to withdraw the head from the socket cavity when the mirror receives a blow exceeding a predetermined value, and said moulding being formed around the mouth of the socket cavity with an annular recess, and the mouth of the socket member being disposed slightly below the level of the parts against which the shoulder abuts such that the plastics material forming the mouth of the socket urges the head in a direction to hold the shoulder in firm abutting contact with said parts.

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