TRUCK MIRRORS

• US 3,713,726 A
• Filed: 08/23/1971
• Issued: 01/30/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hugo Magi
• Original Assignee: Hugo Magi
• Inventors: Magi, Hugo
• Primary Examiner(s): Schonberg, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tokar, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US05/174,168
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 350/293,288,307 240/4.2 248/473,479
• US Class Current: 359/871
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/0605 specially adapted for mounting on trucks, e.g. by C-shaped support means

Abstract

A side-mounted truck mirror in which a mirror having a gasket fitted around it is snapped into a suitable backing plate which has engagement members cooperating with the gasket to hold the mirror in place. The backing plate has a rearward recess in which a light source is mounted, and a light-transmitting member covering the recess and hinged to the backing plate in such a way that it can only be inserted and removed through movement axially of the hinge.

Claims

1. A mirror assembly comprising:

a mirror having two parallel edges, a forward face, and a rearward face, a gasket framing said mirror and having a V-shaped edge defining a continuous inwardly-opening channel in which the edges of said mirror are received and gripped, the portions of the gasket receiving said parallel edges having rearwardly and outwardly extending ridges projecting from the rearward wall of said V-shaped edge and defining therewith two outwardly-opening slots adjacent said two parallel edges, and a backing plate having a front and a rear, and having two inwardly projecting parallel lips adapted to snap into place in said slots whereby the mirror is secured to the front of said backing plate, said backing plate having substantially the same dimension as the mirror in the direction of said parallel edges, the said rearwardly and outwardly extending ridges on the gasket each having an inwardly and rearwardly sloping cam surface adapted to contact the parallel lips as the mirror and the backing plate are being snapped together, such that the lips deform the ridges inwardly to permit the lips to enter said outwardly opening slots, and end cap means on either end of said backing plate, the end cap means abutting the mirror and restraining movement of the mirror with respect to the backing plate in the direction of said parallel edges.

2. A mirror assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the channel-shaped edges of said gasket are snugly received between two parallel walls of the backing plate, said lips extending inwardly from said walls.

3. A mirror assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the said parallel edges are longer than the distance separating them, the gasket having portions bridging between said parallel edges adjacent the rearward face of the mirror.

4. A mirror assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the gasket is made of polyvinylchloride.

5. A mirror assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which said end cap means comprise two end caps.