SIDE VIEW MIRROR ATTACHMENT FOR MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 3,826,563 A
• Filed: 12/11/1972
• Issued: 07/30/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bernard E. Davis
• Original Assignee: Bernard E. Davis
• Inventors: Davis, Bernard E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wibert, Ronald L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tokar, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US05/314,176
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• Field of Search: 350/303,304
• US Class Current: 359/865
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/081 avoiding blind spots, e.g. by using a side-by-side association of mirrors

Abstract

A mirror assembly is provided for attachment to a motor vehicle, and which is intended to be mounted on the vehicle as a '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'side view'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' mirror. The mirror assembly of the invention, in the embodiments to be described, comprises an upper flat mirror and a lower flat mirror, both of which are mounted in the same casing. The first and second mirrors are supported in essentially vertical planes, and they are inclined to one another so that when the assembly is attached to the motor vehicle, the two mirrors provide separate reflected fields, for increased coverage by the assembly, as compared with the usual prior art side view mirror. The casing of the assembly may be pivotally mounted on the motor vehicle, in the same manner as the usual side view mirror, for adjustment to a desired position.

Claims

1. A side view mirror assembly for mounting on the side of a motor vehicle to provide a reflected view of the area to the rear of the vehicle, said assembly including:

a casing including mounting means for attaching the casing to a motor vehicle;

a bracket defining first and second fixed flat planar sections disposed at a predetermined inclination to one another, said bracket being pivotally mounted in said casing for angular movement with respect thereto in all directions;

a first flat mirror member mounted on said first flat planar section of said bracket and extending thereacross to be supported in a first substantially vertical plane thereby; and

a second flat mirror member mounted on said second flat planar section of said bracket and extending thereacross to be supported in a predetermined fixed angular relationship with respect to said first mirror member and in a second substantially vertical plane thereby angularly displaced from said first vertical plane, said bracket supporting said first flat mirror member and said second flat mirror member at a predetermined vertical angle with respect to one another in a range extending substantially from 2* to 4*, and at a predetermined horizontal angle with respect to one another in a range extending from 5* to 12*.

2. The mirror assembly defined in claim 1, in which the predetermined vertical angle between the first and second flat mirror members is substantially 3*, and the predetermined horizontal angle between the first and second flat mirror members is substantially 9*.