Adjustable support device for vehicle side view mirror

• US 4,711,538 A
• Filed: 09/29/1986
• Issued: 12/08/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Timothy W. Byers
• Original Assignee: Creative Sales & Manufacturing Co., Inc.
• Inventors: Byers, Timothy W., Ohs, Gary L.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/912,987
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 350/639, 350/632, 350/604, 248/480, 248/476, 248/475.1, 248/486, 248/298
• US Class Current: 248/480
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/078 easily removable; mounted for bodily outward movement, e.g. when towing
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/1824 Manual alignment

Abstract

An adjustable side view mirror assembly (50) which includes a conventional pivotal mounting bracket (20) having an upper generally horizontal support portion (38). An adapter block has two halves (70,72) with matching slots (76) and (74) one above the other. The lower slot (74) is mounted on support portion (38) while the upper slot receives a slide bar (90). The mirror (22) is mounted at the outer end (92) of the slide bar (90) while stop means (96) are located at the inner end (94) to prevent the bar from sliding on through. A threadable member (102) locks the slide bar in the desired position.

Claims

1. In a side mounted rear view mirror assembly for vehicles including a pivotal mounting frame bracket which is mounted on a vehicle exterior panel and wherein said bracket includes a generally horizontal upper support section, the improvement, comprising:

(a) a generally rectangular adapter block means detachably and slidably mounted on said upper support section of said bracket and including a first inside end and a second outside end and having a first slot extending from said first to said second end for being received on said upper support section, said block means also including a second slot means above said first slot means extending from said first to said second end, said adapter bar being divided into two parts,

(b) an elongated slide adjustment bar means having an outer mirror mounting end and an inner retaining end and being slidably received in said second slot means of said block means for limited reciprocally slidable movement in said second slot, said bar means supporting a rear view mirror at its outer mirror mounting end, and

(c) said block means including a releasable lock means for adjustably holding said bar means such that said rear view mirror is positionable as desired between a first retracted position and a second extended position.

2. The side mounted rear view mirror assembly according to claim 1 and wherein said block means is made of said two parts divisible along a plane extending longitudinally of said slide bar means and such that the two parts have matching cavities to form said first and second slots so that when joined together they may be firmly secured on said upper support section and such that said slide bar means may be slidably and lockably positioned in said second slot.

3. The side mounted rear view mirror assembly according to claim 2 and in which said releasable lock means is a threaded bolt member.

4. The side mounted rear view mirror assembly according to claim 3 and wherein said second slot means is partially open along the upper surface of said slide bar means from said first inside to said second outside end of said block means.

5. The side mounted rear view mirror assembly according to claim 1 and wherein said inner end of said slide adjustment bar means has stop means thereon to prevent said bar from sliding on through said second slot means.