AUTO PADDED WINDSHIELD

• US 3,721,468 A
• Filed: 06/22/1971
• Issued: 03/20/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stanley E. Burgess
• Original Assignee: Stanley E. Burgess
• Inventors: Burgess, Stanley E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Betts, Kenneth H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pekar, John A.
• Application Number:
  US05/155,439
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 296/84K 280/15B
• US Class Current: 280/753
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/08 automatically movable from an inoperative to an operative position, e.g. in a collision electrical circuits for triggering safety arrangements B60R21/01

Abstract

A device to protect automobile passengers from impact against the glass windshield in case of a collision, the device consisting of a foam filled pad which in an inoperative position rest adjacent the underside of the vehicle roof, and which in case of a collision due to momentum force instantly slides down adjacent the interior side of the windshield so to provide a soft and harmless cushion against which the passengers are thrown.

Claims

1. A windshield crash protective device for vehicles comprising a soft flexible pad mounted movably in the vehicle above the front seat passengers, said pad being movable from an inoperative position above the front seat to an operative forward position adjacent to and spaced from the windshield, in combination with a pair of similar tracks provided on opposite sides of the vehicle, extending from a point adjacent the dashboard, upwardly and rearwardly paralleling the windshield and vehicle roof to a position to the rear of the front seat passengers, said tracks being channel shaped, said pad having a smooth pliant cover enclosing resilient padding material, including a series of roller assemblies mounted on opposite sides of said pad, said rollers being enclosed in said tracks and having shafts extending into the pad, each of said assemblies including a resilient retaining band within said pad secured at right angles to said shafts, in further combination with a detent member extending axially rearward of said pad and coacting detent means mounted on the vehicle roof in alignment with said detent member.