Marine windshield with forward accent

• US 10,933,951 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2019
• Issued: 03/02/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Taylor Made Group LLC (Nelson A. Taylor Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Taylor Made Group LLC (Nelson A. Taylor Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Oakes, Philip A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wiest, Anthony D
• Application Number:
  US16/383,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20190315437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 381389, 428 38, 296200, 296201, 296 9621, 296 841, 296 771, 114361
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 19/02 Clear-view screens; Windshields canopies connected to windshields B63B17/02
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 45/04 the devices being intended to indicate the vessel or parts thereof

Abstract

A windshield assembly includes a windshield with a starboard side section, a port side section, and a center section between the starboard side section and the port side section. Transition areas of the windshield between the starboard side section and the center section and between the port side section and the center section, respectively, each include a transition radius. A bottom trim member is securable to a deck or frame with a profile including a starboard corner radius and a port corner radius. The bottom trim member supports the windshield and includes a pair of transition members disposed at the transition areas of the windshield. The transition members are configured to adapt the transition areas of the windshield to the deck profile.

Claims

1. A marine windshield assembly comprising:

a windshield including a starboard side section, a port side section, and a center section between the starboard side section and the port side section, wherein transition areas of the windshield between the starboard side section and the center section and between the port side section and the center section, respectively, each comprise a transition radius; and

a bottom trim member securable to a deck or frame with a profile including a starboard corner radius and a port corner radius, the bottom trim member supporting the windshield, wherein the bottom trim member comprises a pair of transition members disposed at the transition areas of the windshield, wherein the transition members comprise an outermost bend point that extends into the starboard and port corner radii, and wherein the transition areas of the windshield extend across a top of the transition members aft and inward from the outermost bend point.

2. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 1, wherein the starboard corner radius and the port corner radius are different from the transition radii.

3. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 1, wherein the profile includes starboard and port outermost corners, and wherein the transition members are configured to occupy the starboard and port outermost corners of the profile.

4. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 3, wherein the outermost bend points match the outermost corners of the profile, and wherein the transition members extend aft and inward from the outermost bend point to an inside point.

5. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 4, wherein the transition areas of the windshield extend adjacent the inside point of the transition members.

6. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 3, wherein the transition areas of the windshield are configured to cut across the outermost corners of the profile aft and inward of the outermost corners of the profile.

7. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 1, wherein the transition members extend through the windshield.

8. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 1, wherein the transition members comprise a functional component.

9. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 1, wherein the transition areas comprise a first pillar between the starboard side section and the center section and a second pillar between the port side section and the center section.

10. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 9, wherein the first and second pillars engage an inside portion of the transition members.

11. A marine windshield assembly comprising:

a windshield including a starboard side section, a port side section, and a center section between the starboard side section and the port side section, wherein transition areas of the windshield between the starboard side section and the center section and between the port side section and the center section, respectively, each comprise a transition radius; and

a bottom trim member securable to a deck or frame with a profile including a starboard corner radius and a port corner radius, the bottom trim member supporting the windshield, wherein the bottom trim member comprises a pair of transition members disposed at the transition areas of the windshield, the transition members being configured to adapt the transition areas of the windshield to the starboard and port corner radii of the profile,

wherein the transition members comprise a functional component, and wherein the functional component is a light source.

12. A marine windshield assembly comprising:

a windshield including a starboard side section, a port side section, and a center section between the starboard side section and the port side section; and

a bottom trim member securable to a deck or frame with a profile including starboard and port outermost corners, the bottom trim member supporting the windshield, wherein the bottom trim member comprises a pair of transition members disposed at respective transition areas between the starboard side section and the center section and between the port side section and the center section, the transition members extending into the starboard and port outermost corners of the deck profile,

wherein the windshield is configured to cut across a top of the transition members aft and inward of the starboard and port outermost corners.

13. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 12, wherein a trim radius of the transition members at junctions between the starboard side section and the center section and between the port side section and the center section is smaller than a radius of the windshield at the transition areas.

14. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 12, wherein the transition members comprise an outermost bend point that matches the outermost corners of the profile, and wherein the transition members extend aft and inward from the outermost bend point to an inside point.

15. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 14, wherein the transitions areas of the windshield extend adjacent the inside point of the transition members.

16. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 12, wherein the transition areas comprise a first pillar between the starboard side section and the center section and a second pillar between the port side section and the center section.

17. A marine windshield assembly according to claim 16, wherein the first and second pillars engage an inside portion of the transition members.