BUMPER GUARD AND SIDEWALL PROTECTOR

• US 3,831,990 A
• Filed: 07/26/1973
• Issued: 08/27/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bhupindar Singh, Donald A. Swauger
• Original Assignee: Bhupindar Singh, Donald A. Swauger
• Inventors: Singh, Bhupindar, Swauger, Donald A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wood, Jr., M. Henson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Love, John J.
• Application Number:
  US05/382,905
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 293/1,62,70,71R 52/716,717,718 267/140,141,139
• US Class Current: 293/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/04 External Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices thereon fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/445 Guard strips

Abstract

A unitary homogenious structure of resilient material on the order of rubber, neoprene and the like in the form of an impact absorbing bead on an integral mounting base in which a pair of adhesive bearing crescent-like skirts extend symmetrically rearwardly from the bead at hinge-like segmental portions and tend to have internal stresses when pressed into adherance with any surface on a vehicle body to cling thereto for securing such bead in a foremost impact receiving position therefrom.

Claims

1. In a bumper guard and side wall protector provided with an adhesive coated back surface for securing the same to parts of a vehicle body, a unitary structure of resilient material comprising in combination:

1. an impact absorbing bead having a fore edge adapted to receive impact from an outside source;

2. a mounting base formed integrally of and with said bead on the after side thereof;

3. said base including a pair of wing-like skirts united with the side of said bead at segmental portions thereof on either side of the fore to aft axis of said bead to provide hinge-like connections between the latter and said skirts;

4. each of said skirts, at repose, having a crescentlike configuration termination in a feather edge and providing an adhesive coated concaved back surface and adapted to yield to internal stresses in conforming to the contour and configuration of a surface to which said mounting base is applied.

2. a mounting base formed integrally of and with said bead on the after side thereof;

3. The bumper guard and side wall protector in accordance with claim 1 in which each of said wing-like skirts of crescent-like configuration has an arcuate outer surface extending from said feathered edge to a coved recess formed at the point of mergence of the outer extremity of said segmental hinge-like connection with said bead for yielding to Forward pressure against said skirts by a surface to which said mounting base is applied.

4. each of said skirts, at repose, having a crescentlike configuration termination in a feather edge and providing an adhesive coated concaved back surface and adapted to yield to internal stresses in conforming to the contour and configuration of a surface to which said mounting base is applied.

5. The bumper guard and side wall protector in accordance with that of claim 4 in which the concaved inner surface of each of said wing-like skirts merges with an inverse curve terminating at a flat surfaced nitch transverse to the fore to aft axis of said bead periphery which is substantially aligned with the point of mergence of said outer arcuate surface with said coved recesses.