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US 4,125,244 AGranted
Retrovisors
AssigneeFifth Patroy Proprietary Limited
InventorLeonard F. Lukey
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Abstract
A retrovisor, or rear vision mirror for automobiles, having a frame which may be supported on a mount for securing said retrovisor to a vehicle, said mounting and said frame having interengagable ratchet means such that upon the frame being resiliently mounted on the support with the ratchets interengaged, the frame will be held in a set position but will swing towards the vehicle if struck by an obstacle.
Claims7
A retrovisor for mounting on a vehicle, said retrovisor comprising:
- a frame member;
- a housing member adapted for ready engagement with the frame member to provide a mirror assembly for receiving and releasably retaining a reflective means;
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- a mounting member for mounting the mirror assembly on the vehicle, said mounting member including an annular plate located on the uppermost surface thereof, said plate having teeth means extending around the periphery of said plate, complementary teeth means being located on the frame member, said teeth means being adapted to engage with said complementary teeth means and oriented so as to allow the mirror assembly to be normally retained in a preset operating position and to cause said mirror assembly to pivot towards the vehicle in response to an application of a force applied to said assembly;
- wherein said complementary teeth means comprises an annular plate arranged on the lowermost surface of a mounting block provided on the frame member;
- wherein said mounting block has a centrally disposed circular aperture therein and is recessed into the frame member;
- and wherein there is provided on the frame member a second mounting block which is substantially in vertical alignment with the first-mentioned mounting block.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.