BLADE CARRIER FOR THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES

• US 3,881,213 A
• Filed: 03/02/1973
• Issued: 05/06/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lodovico Tilli
• Original Assignee: Lodovico Tilli
• Inventors: Tilli, Lodovico
• Primary Examiner(s): Feldman, Peter
• Application Number:
  US05/337,494
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 18/250.36,250.42,250.35,250.37,250.38,250.39,250.40,250.41
• US Class Current: 15/250.43
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/38 Wiper blades provided with liquid spreading means B60S1/524; provided with gas spreading means B60S1/546
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3882 C-shape section
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/4064 the channel-shaped end being provided with protrusions on, or holes in, the side walls to create a pivot
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3818 the backing strip being a channel-like element, e.g. not continuous

Abstract

A blade carrier for the windshield wipers of motor vehicles comprising a bowed rod of flexible plastic material having on one face hook shaped teeth forming a holding groove for the foot of the wiping blade. Means are provided for facilitating the introduction of said foot in said holding groove.

Claims

1. A blade carrier for a windscreen wiper of a motor vehicle, comprising (a) an elongated body for connection to a wiper arm, said body being formed as a single arcuate piece of an elastically flexible plastic material having a first plurality of hook-shaped retaining members spaced apart from one another along the concave side of said body, and a second plurality of hookshaped retainiNg members spaced apart from one another along said concave side and arranged to define with said first plurality a holding groove for receiving and retaining the rear portion of a conventional windscreen wiper blade, and (b) first and second terminal holding means at opposite respective ends of the blade carrier for retaining the ends of the windscreen wiper blade, that hook-shaped retaining member which is nearest the first terminal holding means being spaced from said first terminal holding means by a distance greater than that separating adjacent hook-shaped retaining members of the first or second plurality, whereby a space is provided between said first terminal holding means and the hook-shaped retaining member nearest thereto so that the rear portion of the blade may be inserted by way of said space into the holding groove and slid along the holding groove.

2. A blade carrier according to claim 1, in which an upstanding, non-hooked tooth is provided between the first terminal holding means and that retaining member of the first plurality which is nearest thereto and an upstanding, non-hooked tooth is provided between the first terminal holding means and that retaining member of the second plurality which is nearest thereto, the two teeth being on opposite respective sides of the line of the holding groove .

3. A blade carrier according to claim 1, in which an upstanding, non-hooked tooth is provided between the second terminal holding means and that retaining member of the first plurality which is nearest thereto and an upstanding, non-hooked tooth is provided between the second terminal holding means and that retaining member of the second plurality which is nearest thereto, the two teeth being on opposite respective sides of the line of the holding groove.