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Traffic signal with directional indicator

  • US RE28,852 E
  • Filed: 08/23/1974
  • Issued: 06/08/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1971
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for displaying adjacent a roadway orientational information indicative of the compass heading direction in which a vehicle must be traveling if the vehicle operator can view the apparatus, in such a manner that motorists on said roadway must of necessity observe it, comprising:

  • a traffic signal comprised of at least three different-colored lenses and means of illuminating said lenses .[.selectively.]., said traffic signal installed with said lenses directed toward a first compass heading; and

    means for permanently modifying the light beam transmitted by one of said lenses to convey information indicative of a second compass heading opposite said first compass heading to provide information as to the direction in which vehicles approaching the traffic signal are traveling.

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