Pression sector windscreen-wiper blade for motor vehicles

• US 3,969,784 A
• Filed: 01/30/1975
• Issued: 07/20/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Paul Journee
• Original Assignee: Paul Journee
• Inventors: Journee, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Feldman, Peter
• Application Number:
  US05/545,383
• Time in Patent Office: 537 Days
• Field of Search: 15/250.36-250.42
• US Class Current: 15/250.46
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3801 characterised by a blade support harness consisting of several articulated elements B60S1/3803, B60S1/3806 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3812 Means of supporting or holding the squeegee or blade rubber
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3813 chacterised by a support harness consisting of several articulated elements

Abstract

The invention pertains to a windscreen-wiper blade of the type constituted by a large bridge on each end of which is articulated a bar or small bridge to hold a squeegee, wherein the contact between said bar and said squeegee occurs in a plurality of pressure zones.

Claims

1. In a windshield wiper blade assembly having a primary bridge member, a secondary bridge member pivotally mounted on each end of said primary bridge member and a flexible wiper member engaging each of said secondary bridge members at a plurality of spaced zones, the improvement comprising:

said primary bridge member being substantially rigid;

each of said secondary bridge members being of a unitary single structure and being resiliently bendable in a plane containing all said bridge members;

means fixed on said secondary bridge members defining at least three of said pressure zones longitudinally spaced along each of said secondary bridge members; and

said pressure zones of each of said secondary bridge members, when said bridge members are unstressed and at rest, being relatively arranged to each other to cause said wiper member to define a curve concave on the side thereof facing away from said bridge member.

2. A windshield wiper blade assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said secondary bridge members are of spring steel.

3. A windshield wiper blade assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said secondary bridge members are of elastically bendable synthetic material.

4. A windshield wiper blade assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said secondary bridge members are pivotally mounted on said primary bridge member by pivot means engaging a selected one of a plurality of pivot holes spaced apart along said secondary bridge members.