Side view mirror apparatus for vehicles

A side-view mirror apparatus for vehicles comprising a supporting frame having three vertically spaced horizontally extending mounting members, an upright mirror assembly carried by and between two of said mounting members for rotation about an upright axis, the third mounting member being beneath the lower of said two mounting members, said two lower members having two bushings, respectively, a vertically arranged hollow shaft secured at its upper end to said mirror assembly is journaled for rotation in said two bushings;

• said mirror assembly including two generally parallel back-to-back mirrors having sandwiched therebetween a planar arranged electrical heating element, an elongated electrical conductor received by the hollow portion of said shaft and connected at one of its two ends to said heating element, said conductor being insulated from said shaft, and means connected to said shaft for rotatably adjusting said mirror assembly;
• said means for adjusting said mirror assembly including an electric motor carried by said frame between said two lower mounting members and a worm and wheel drive connected between said motor and said shaft;
• said frame being in the form of a three sided housing enclosing said mirror assembly, and including a convex mirror mounted on said housing beneath said mirror assembly and juxtaposed with respect to said motor and drive, and said housing enclosing said motor and drive and said convex mirror closing the open side of said housing opposite said motor and drive.