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US 3,983,836 AGranted
Indicator bar for automobile radio
AssigneeThe Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
InventorMaria Rivera
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Abstract
An indicator bar assembly for an automobile radio in which a reflector surface of the slidable indicator bar reflects light through one of a plurality of separately colored plastic fixed indicators to indicate the radio station to which the radio is tuned.
Claims3
A slide bar indicator mechanism for a radio which indicated by means of the display of individual colored light, the tuned setting of the radio, comprising
- a slide bar indicator linked to the tuning mechanism of the radio which is moved across a numbered scale in response to rotation of the tuning knob of the radio,
- a set of transparent individually colored plastic indicators mounted parallel to the numbered scale mounted in the front panel of the radio,
- a fixed light source mounted in the housing of the radio which is shielded from direct view of the transparent indicators, and
- a mirror mounted on an arm attached to the slide bar indicator that reflects light from the fixed light source through one or more transparent indicators depending on the setting of the slide bar indicator.
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