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US 4,284,328 AGranted
Vehicle safety fender trim
OwnerJohn W. Drewsinventor
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This invention relates to safety fender trims mounted vertically on fender flanges at the motor vehicle wheel openings which not only perform improved water splash arrest and mud guard functions, but, with motor vehicles of increasingly varying widths on the roads, the trims primarily augment night driving safety particularly for the user, as well as others. Light reflective disc targets are bonded to fender trim extensions on the user car to reflect rearwardly, forwardly, or preferably both rearwardly and forwardly, the head light beams of other vehicles to pinpoint the presence of the user car in traffic, its width, and whether it is moving or parked. These disc targets reduce flashing reflected glare by diffusing the incident parallel ray beams reflected, not only to widen the visibility for others over a wide viewing angle, but also to reduce glare and sharpen perception and discrimination by the reduced intensity of the reflections to all cars for assisting others in perceiving the presence, size and distance and orientation of the user vehicle.
A traffic signal fender trim member for motor vehicles comprising a substantially flat, flexible body member having a bottom edge, an outermost edge intended to extend vertically away from said bottom edge when said signal trim member is secured to a motor vehicle, said outermost edge having spaced tab members extending laterally therefrom, the space between adjacent ones of said tab members exceeding the vertical dimension of said tab members, and light reflective targets provided on said spaced tab members.
A traffic signal fender trim member for motor vehicles comprising a substantially flat, unitary flexible body member having a bottom edge, an outermost edge formed to extend vertically away from said bottom edge when said signal trim member is secured to a vehicle fender, said outermost edge having a plurality of vertically spaced tab members extending laterally therefrom, and light reflective targets provided on each of said spaced tab members, said spaced tab members and targets being formed to provide a space between adjacent ones of said targets which exceeds the vertical dimension of said targets.
A traffic signal fender trim member for motor vehicles comprising a substantially flat, unitary flexible body member having a bottom edge, an outermost edge formed to extend vertically away from said bottom edge when said signal trim member is secured to a vehicle fender, an innermost edge extending away from said bottom edge and configured to conform to the configuration of a vehicle fender to which said trim member is attached, said innermost edge extending angularly from said bottom edge toward said outermost edge, the portion of said body member adjacent said innermost edge being reinforced for attachment to said vehicle fender, and vertically spaced light reflective targets secured to said body member adjacent to said outermost edge, said targets being secured to both sides of said body member with the space between adjacent ones of said targets exceeding the vertical dimension of said targets.
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