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US 4,132,022 AGranted
Reflected sign
OwnerCharles P. Wood, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A reminder device adapted to be carried on a vehicle's dashboard in front of the vehicle's steering mechanism in such a position as to reflect upwardly onto the inside of the windshield at a position where same can be viewed and read by the driver. The reminder device includes structure movable between a reminder position in which a message reverse-printed on the structure is readable in the windshield as reflected, and a storage position in which the message reverse-printed on the structure is not readable.
Claims2
A message reminder device for a driver of a vehicle, said device comprising
- a windshield and a dashboard, said windshield extending upwardly above said dashboard,
- a placard structure having a first placard component adapted to be mounted in a fixed position onto said dashboard and a second placard component movable relative to said first component, said two placard components being pivotable relative one to the other, one of said components including at least one spacer block mounted thereon to maintain a discrete distance between the components when same overlie one another in a storage position, and
- message indicia denoted in word form, and in reverse image form, on one side of at least one of said fixed and movable components, the mounted location of said placard structure on said dashboard permitting said message indicia to be reflected upwardly into said windshield for easy viewing and reading by the driver of that vehicle in which said device is mounted,
- said movable placard component being movable between a reminder position in which said message indicia can be reflected onto said windshield to present same in readable form, and a storage position in which said message is not reflected onto said windshield.
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