Dashboard subassembly

• US 3,270,831 A
• Filed: 04/09/1964
• Issued: 09/06/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert C. Woofter, William C. Luscombe
• Original Assignee: Robert C. Woofter, William C. Luscombe
• Inventors: Woofter, Robert C., Luscombe, William C.
• Application Number:
  US04/358,588
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• US Class Current: 180/90
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/14 lighting through the surface to be illuminated

Claims

1. FOR A VEHICLE HAVING ELECTRICAL WIRING MEANS SUCH AS INSULATED CONDUCTORS, GROUPED WIRES AS A HARNESS AND THE LIKE AS WELL AS A DASHBOARD MEANS TO CARRY INSTRUMENTATION, ACCESSORIES AND THE LIKE A PRE-CONNECTED COMBINATIN ILLUMINATION AND INSTRUMENTATION-ACCESSORY PANEL, COMPRISING, A BODY PORTION OF INSULATING MATERIAL HAVING AN ELONGATED PREDETERMINED CONFIGURATION ADAPTED TO FIT ON ONE SIDE OF THE DASHBOARD MEANS, A CHANNEL-LIKE GUIDE PORTION FOR THE WIRING MEANS EXTENDING INTEGRALLY AND LATERALLY ON ONE SIDE OF SAID BODY PORTION, A PLURALITY OF LAMP SOCKET MEANS ALSO COMPLETELY INTEGRAL WITH SAID BODY PORTION OF INSULATING MATERIAL AND HAVING PREDERERMINED POSITIONING THEREOF ESTABLISHED BY SAID BODY PORTION, TERMINAL MEANS PROVIDED IN EACH OF SAID LAMP SOCKET MEANS FOR MOUNTING AND INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN ENERGIZABLE ILLUMINATORS SUCH AS LIGHT BULBS AND BARE ENDS OF THE WIRING MEANS DIRECTLY ON SAID BODY PORTION PRIOR TO ATTACHMENT OF SAID BODY PORTION TO THE DASHBOARD MEANS, AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL SOCKET PORTION INTEGRAL WITH SAID BODY PORTION OF INSULATING MATERIAL, AND AT LEAST ONE COMBINATION CLIP AND TERMINAL MEANS PROVIDED IN SAID ADDITIONAL SOCKET PORTION WHICH MAINTAINS BOTH RETENTION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENERGIZATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL PIECE OF INSTRUMENTATION, ACCESSORIES AND THE LIKE.