Vehicle window ventilator

• US 4,756,242 A
• Filed: 12/14/1987
• Issued: 07/12/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William C. Keith
• Original Assignee: William C. Keith
• Inventors: Keith, William C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US07/133,136
• Time in Patent Office: 211 Days
• Field of Search: 98/2.12, 98/2.13, 296/93, 296/152, 296/154
• US Class Current: 454/133
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/267 Openings in or near to vehicle windows pivoting side windows B60J1/14; wind deflectors associated with windows for ventilating B60J1/20

Abstract

The vehicle window ventilator is of a one-piece construction, including a top bulbous portion and a bottom polyurethane portion having openings extending therethrough angled from the interior of the vehicle rearwardly to the exterior for inducing quiet air flow out of the passenger compartment. Pressure of the upper edge of the window against the bottom portion of the ventilator controls the opening and closing of the polyurethane openings. The bulbous upper portion is suitable for being mounted in the inverted window channel of any vehicle window without the use of screws or hardware.

Claims

1. A ventilator adapted to be positioned in a horizontal, inverted channel in a vehicle window opening comprising,

an elongated body member having an upper bulb portion adapted to be received in a window channel,

said body member including a lower portion having openings extending laterally therethrough for passage of air from one side to the other side when said openings are open, and

said lower portion of said body member being of a normally expanded material which is compressible under pressure from a window when moved to its closed position whereby said openings are adapted to be closed.

2. The structure of claim 1 wherein said openings are formed by a series of ridges and valleys.

3. The structure of claim 2 wherein said openings have longitudinal axes extending diagonally across said lower portions of said body member.

4. The structure of claim 3 wherein said openings are adapted to extend from the front to the rear of a vehicle window.

5. The structure of claim 1 wherein said upper portion of said body member includes a downwardly extending deflector extending in adjacent spaced relation to said lower portion to shield said openings from moisture exterior to a window.

6. The structure of claim 5 wherein a second deflector extends from said upper body portion in adjacent spaced relation to said lower portion, said second deflector being on the opposite side from said first deflector and adapted to extend on the interior side of a vehicle window.

7. The structure of claim 1 wherein said body member includes middle, forward and rearward body portions and said middle body portion includes said laterally extending openings, said forward and rearward body portions having a lower portion which is imperforate, and said forward and rearward body portions are adapted to be positioned in the forward and rearward portions of a vehicle window.

8. The structure of claim 1 wherein said lower portion of said body member has an upper and a lower edge with said lower edge being wider than said upper edge to provide a larger area for engagement by a window, and said upper edge being integrally connected to said upper body portion.

9. The structure of claim 1 wherein said lower portion of said body member is made of polyurethane material.

10. The structure of claim 9 wherein said upper body portion of said body member is made of a compressible material substantially more dense than said lower body portion.