US 4,052,099 AGranted

Oncoming air spoilers for vehicles, mounted near the hood to deflect air carried bugs, rain, road spray, snow, and lightweight debris up and away from the windshield

AssigneeDixson, Inc.

InventorsDennis J. Lowery, Robert E. Merchant, Milton A. Walls

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Abstract

Dual oncoming air spoilers for vehicles are mounted near the hood to deflect air carried bugs, rain, road spray, snow, and lightweight debris up and away from the windshield. They are provided essentially in a one embodiment kit having: two plastic panels; two bottom channels to respectively receive the two panels; four bendable and breakaway pre-drilled and countersunk brackets to be used in securing the bottom channels and their inserted bottom edges of the dual oncoming air spoilers to a front of a vehicle on or near the hood and standard fastener assemblies, all these components being assembled and installed using conventional hand tools for drilling access holes to receive the fastener assemblies and to secure them. By following selective installation procedures, the contents of this one embodiment kit are mountable on many different vehicles having many different hood widths and hood contour designs. For example the dual oncoming air spoilers are spaced apart on wider vehicles and arranged end to end on narrower vehicles. The pre-drilled countersunk malleable, bendable, breakaway brackets, usable, end for end, in a variety of positions and places, and being breakable at different lengths for respective different vehicle mountings, make this one embodiment kit of dual oncoming air spoilers installable on all vehicles having an extending hood configuration.

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Dependent claims

A universally adaptable oncoming air spoiler arranged in two sub assemblies for mounting on wide, medium and narrow width vehicles near or on their extended hoods to deflect air carried bugs, rain, road spray, snow, and lightweight debris up and away from their respective windshields, comprising:

a. two alike air deflector planar panels having their top corners formed on a radius;
b. two alike channel supports to respectively co-extensively receive the bottom uniform edges of the two alike air deflector planar panels;
c. four mounting brackets to hold the universally adaptable oncoming air spoiler on a vehicle, as a pair of these mounting brackets are secured both to a channel support and to the vehicle, and each of the four mounting brackets is a strip of bendable material, scored at selected places along its length for subsequent intentional breaking at a score, drilled and countersunk between the scores, and bent at right angles near one end, independently of any score, thereby providing a choice of having either a long leg of selectable variable bracket length or a short leg positioned vertically, upon installing this universally adaptable oncoming air spoiler to the vehicle;
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d. selected multiple fastening assemblies used throughout the universally adaptable oncoming air spoiler, used at three different types of location either to secure the two air deflector planar panels to the respective channel supports, or to secure the respective channel supports to the respective mounting brackets, or to secure the respective mounting brackets to the vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.