Vehicle sun visor

• US 4,090,732 A
• Filed: 04/07/1977
• Issued: 05/23/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Anatoli Vistitsky
• Original Assignee: Anatoli Vistitsky
• Inventors: Vistitsky, Anatoli
• Primary Examiner(s): Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Church, Gene A.
• Application Number:
  US05/785,421
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 296/97 R, 296/97 A, 296/97 B, 296/97 C, 296/97 F, 296/97 G, 296/97 H, 296/95 C, 160/DIG. 3
• US Class Current: 296/97.8
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/0208 combined with auxiliary visor

Abstract

A vehicle sun visor provided with a pair of tracks mounted on an opaque panel, each of which slidably mounts a bearing having oppositely extending pintles rotatably receiving brackets fixed to a first and second semi-transparent tinted extension panel. One or both of the panels may be slid along with its mounting bearing to a position below the lower edge of the opaque panel to reduce glare from the sun'"'"'s rays or glare from the headlights of an oncoming vehicle and angularly adjusted relative thereto when the opaque panel is insufficient to provide a suitable shield. One of the extension panels may be polarized at a different angle with respect to the other so that when used in combination, glare may be substantially reduced below that normally obtained by the use of only one of the extension panels.

Claims

1. A vehicle sun visor comprising:

an opaque panel adapted to be positioned in front of a windshield of a vehicle,

at least one track having an elongated slot therein mounted on said opaque panel,

a bearing slidable along said slot in said track,

said bearing having a pair of laterally extending pintles,

a first semi-transparent tinted panel rotatably mounted on one of said pintles, and

a second semi-transparent panel rotatably mounted on the other of said pintles.

2. The sun visor of claim 1 including

a pair of tracks having elongated slots therein mounted on said opaque panel,

each of said tracks including a bearing slidably mounted within the slots in said tracks,

each of said bearings including a pair of oppositely extending pintles,

one pintle on each of said bearings rotatably mounting said first semi-transparent panel, and

the other of said pintles on each of said bearings rotatably mounting the other of said semi-transparent panels.

3. The sun visor of claim 2 wherein

each of said tracks includes a pair of spaced plates, and

each of said bearings includes a substantially T-shaped extension received between said spaced plates and defining opposite grooves slidable along the edges of each of said slots in said tracks.

4. The sun visor of claim 3 wherein the rearmost plate of each of said tracks is substantially C-shaped in cross-section forming extensions for engagement with the opposite edges of said opaque sun visor.

5. The sun visor of claim 4 wherein each of semi-transparent panels has a bracket fixed thereto rotatably received on said mounting pintles.

6. The sun visor of claim 5 wherein one of said semi-transparent panels has an axis of polarization different than the axis of polarization of the other of said semi-transparent panels.