Cable kit for making a remote controlled truck mirror
OwnerRaymond Jacksoninventor
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Abstract
A kit for converting a conventional truck side view mirror, so that it can be remotely controlled in adjustment by the truck driver within the truck cab; the kit including a flexible cable which, at one end, is attached to a pivotable side view mirror, and which, at its other end, extends into the interior of the cab, and under the dashboard, where it terminates with a manually controllable handle or knob, and intermediate portion of the flexible cable being grasped by guide means supported from the mirror tubular support.
Claims6
A cable kit mounted on a truck, for making a remote controlled truck mirror, comprising, in combination, a mirror unit, said mirror unit being supported in a tubular support mounted on a truck door of a truck, and remote control means for rotating said mirror unit by a driver of said truck;
- said means comprising a mirror frame on said mirror unit having an outward extending bolt, an upper and a lower bracket on said tubular support each receiving said bolt within an opening thereof, a nut fastener on said upper bracket providing means to raise or lower said mirror frame, an offset set screw fastener near a bottom of said mirror frame, retaining a loop on an end of a cable enclosed in a plastic sleeve, a third bracket secured to a leg of said tubular support, a cable clamp supported on said third bracket grasping a longitudinally intermediate portion of said cable sleeve, and said sleeve of said cable extending through an opening of a body of said truck, said sleeve being secured to a dashboard of said truck;
- a control knob being secured to an end of said cable, a second clamp secured on said sleeve enabling a driver to manipulate said control knob secured on said end of said cable, said second clamp being secured fixedly to a gear shift, a coil received on said cable and abutting at one end with said control knob and abutting at its other end with a flange adjacent said second clamp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.