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US 3,958,826 AGranted
Windshield for golf carts
AssigneeFederated Merchandisers, Inc.
InventorFrank E. Upton
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Abstract
A windshield has a housing and a bracket to mount the housing in transverse relation on a vehicle. A roller in the housing has a transparent sheet rollably mounted thereon. An edge portion of the transparent sheet of material is securable to a lower portion of the vehicle in extended position.
Claims6
In a vehicle having a driver's seat and a generally horizontal roof member forward of and above the normal head position of the driver thereof, a windshield comprising:
- a. a housing substantially the width of the driver's seat, said housing defines an elongated cavity having an elongated opening on one side thereof, said housing having a slotted portion therein, said housing extending approximately from one side of said driver's seat to the other;
- b. a pair of brackets, said brackets each having a first portion slidably engaged in the slotted portion of said housing and a second portion extending from the first portion and connected to said horizontal roof member, the first portion of said brackets has a fastener member rigidly securing said brackets to said housing, the second portion of said brackets has a cross sectionally semi-annular outer end portion;
- c. a roller mounted in said housing;
- d. an extendable and retractable flexible transparent sheet of material, almost as wide as said housing is long, rollably mounted on said roller;
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- e. attachment means on an outer edge portion of said sheet constructed and adapted to removably secure same when extended to a member on said vehicle in the lower portion thereof and forward of said driver's seat, thereby providing a windshield for said vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.