Rear vision mirror arrangements for vehicles

• US 3,214,578 A
• Filed: 03/15/1962
• Issued: 10/26/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joachim Talbot Yorck
• Original Assignee: Joachim Talbot Yorck
• Inventors: JOACHIM TALBOT YORCK
• Application Number:
  US04/179,936
• Time in Patent Office: 1,321 Days
• US Class Current: 362/143
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2615 mounted on the vehicle body, e.g. with magnets
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2665 on rear-view mirrors lighting devices for vehicle interior on or for rear-view mirrors B60Q3/258
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Claims

1. A REAR-VIEW MIRROR AND LAMP ASSEMBLY ADAPTED TO BE MOUNTED ON A VEHICLE, COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, HOUSING MEANS HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS AND TWO OPEN ENDS;

A MIRROR;

MOUNTING MEANS ADJUSTABLE TO DIFFERENTLY ORIENTED POSITIONS RELATIVE TO SAID HOUSING MEANS FOR HOLDING SAID MIRROR IN A DESIRED POSITION AND BEING LOCATED IN ONE OF SAID OPEN ENDS OF SAID HOUSING MEANS;

LENS MEANS LOCATED IN THE OTHER OPEN END OF SAID HOUSING MEANS ABUTTING AGAINST A PORTION OF THE LATTER AND TURNABLE SUBSTANTIALLY ABOUT SAID AXIS THEREOF;

AND TENSIONING MEANS LOCATED SUBSTANTIALLY CENTRALLY IN SAID HOUSING MEANS AND OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID LENS MEANS WITH SAID MOUNTING MEANS, SAID TENSIONING MEANS BEING AT ONE END THEREOF IN THREADED ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID LENS MEANS AND BEING AT THE OTHER END THEREOF IN OVERLAPPING, BUT RELATIVELY ADJUSTABLE ENGAGEMENT WITH A PORTION OF SAID MOUNTING MEANS IN SUCH A MANNER THAT BY TURNING SAID LENS MEANS IN ONE DIRECTION RELATIVE TO SAID HOUSING AND TO SAID TENSIONING MEANS SAID MOUNTING MEANS ARE URGED BY SAID TENSIONING MEANS INTO SAID ONE OPEN END OF SAID HOUSING MEANS AND ARE FIXED IN A DESIRED POSITION RELATIVE THERETO, WHILE BY TURNING SAID LENS MEANS IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION SAID MOUNTING MEANS ARE PERMITTED TO BE MOVED TO DIFFERENTLY ORIENTED POSITIONS, SAID TENSIONING MEANS INCLUDING AT SAID ONE END THEREOF MEANS FOR CARRYING AN ELECTRIC LAMP IN A POSITION SUBSTANTIALLY CENTRAL RELATIVE TO SAID LENS MEANS.