Vehicle protective deflector having visual enhancement and illuminating means
OwnerCharles E. Geisendorferinventor
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Abstract
A deflector shield fixed to the hood of a motor vehicle comprising a mounting bracket and a transparent panel upstanding from the bracket. The panel is recessed in its rear surface to provide visible enhancements. A light source mounted on the bracket emits light into the lower edge of the panel and the recessed surfaces deflect light out of the plane of the panel thereby illuminating the enhancements.
Claims4
In a protective deflector mountable on the frontal portion of a vehicle and having an upstanding transparent panel with a surface facing toward said vehicle, the improvement comprising:
- recess means in said surface opening toward said vehicle for providing visual enhancement for said panel;
- said recess means opening to said surface and the periphery of the openings of said recess means being surrounded by raised annuli of panel material disposed on said surface.
In a protective deflector mountable on the frontal portion of a vehicle and having an upstanding transparent panel with a surface facing toward said vehicle, the improvement comprising;
- recess means in said surface opening toward said vehicle for providing visual enhancement for said panel;
- said recess means being defined by walls that are translucent;
- electrically operable illuminating means mounted on said deflector in illuminating relation with said panel for rendering said recess means visible in the darkness;
- said deflector including mounting means for said panel;
- said illuminating means being disposed on said mounting means proximate an edge of said panel;
- said illuminating means comprising an electric light assembly including a bulb and a receptacle for said bulb;
- said receptacle being supported on said mounting means with said bulb extending from said receptacle for emitting light edgewise into said panel;
- said panel and said mounting means having abutting apertured portions;
- said apertures being coaxial and together defining a cavity;
- a portion of said bulb extending into one end of said cavity which opens toward said vehicle;
- and, said mounting means having another portion closing the other end of said cavity.
A method for providing visual enhancement for a transparent panel portion of a vehicle protective deflector comprising the steps of:
- providing a transparent panel of thermal plastic material;
- applying heat locally to said panel by means of an instrument having a heated, shaped tip;
- pressing said tip into said material after it becomes plastic whereby said material is displaced by said tip forming a recess therein;
- discontinuing the application of heat and pressing said tip into said material before said panel is pierced through;
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- allowing the material displaced from said recess to cool and reharden in an anulus about the opening of said recess to the surface of said panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.