Windshield wiper boot

• US 4,342,126 A
• Filed: 12/02/1980
• Issued: 08/03/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward F. Neefeldt
• Original Assignee: Edward F. Neefeldt
• Inventors: Neefeldt, Edward F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Feldman, Peter
• Application Number:
  US06/212,266
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 15/250.07, 15/250.40, 15/250.41, 15/250.42, 15/250.36, 15/250 R, 15/246, 15/257 R
• US Class Current: 15/246
• 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 2001/3839 with longitudinally split squeegee, with squeegee parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3843 equipped with removable cover or protective elements

Abstract

A windshield wiper boot constructed of molded rubber is designed to be fitted over and substantially cover a windshield wiper with the exception of the wiper blade. The boot serves the purpose of preventing the accumulation of snow, ice and other materials within the flexure portion of the windshield wiper so as to eliminate interference by these materials with the flexural movement of the wiper blade over a windshield.

Claims

1. A windshield wiper assembly protection means, said protection means comprising a cover being of only one piece of material and devoid of other components and being elongated along a longitudinal dimension having a section generally of an inverted curved shaped broad channel and the cover being foreshortened along a transverse dimension having a section generally of an inverted curved shaped narrow channel, said cover having at a domed portion thereof an aperture for communicating therethrough an extended portion of a blade retaining structure to just protrude and pass through in close proximity thereof while having distal therefrom a free edge forming a skirt and extending substantially around the entire length of the cover for sleeving over and directly contacting an entire windshield wiper assembly distal from a windshield wiper blade element so as to permit a length of the wiper blade to extend from the wiper blade itself so as to come into contact with a windshield, an interior surface of the cover along its longitudinal dimension conformably interfitting and engagingly contacting generally the entire length of a fairly rigid support arm of the windshield wiper assembly for the wiper blade element, said cover serving to effectively protect the structural components of said windshield wiper assembly from the outside environment while not interfering with a contact between a windshield surface and a windshield wiper blade forming a portion of said windshield wiper assembly.

2. The windshield wiper assembly protection means as defined in claim 1, wherein said cover is of a molded and resilient construction and is conformably fittingly positionable over a windshield wiper blade retaining structure forming a part of said windshield wiper assembly.

3. The windshield wiper assembly protection means as defined in claim 2, wherein said resilient construction is obtained through the forming of said cover out of a rubber material.