Safety attachment for a front vehicle bumper
AssigneeAuburn Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorJames M. Kite
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Abstract
Two horizontal rollers are rotatably supported on the rear side of a front vehicle bumper adjacent each end portion thereof. If the bumper is shoved rearwardly during a collision, the rollers move into rolling contact with the front wheels of the vehicle to enable the wheels to continue to rotate and to enable the driver to maintain better control over the vehicle.
Claims11
An attachment for a front vehicle bumper having front and rear sides extending transversely of the forward straight line direction of travel of the vehicle, said attachment comprising a pair of transversely spaced brackets, a pair of substantially vertically spaced rollers supported by said brackets to rotate about substantially horizontal axes extending transversely of the forward straight line direction of travel of the vehicle, and means for attaching said brackets to the rear side of the bumper adjacent one end portion thereof.
A front transversely extending bumper for a vehicle, said bumper having front and rear sides extending transversely of the forward straight line direction of travel of the vehicle, rollers located on the rear side of the bumper adjacent opposite end portions thereof, and means for supporting each of said rollers on said bumper for rotation about a generally horizontal axis extending transversely of the forward straight line direction of travel of the vehicle.
A vehicle having first and second laterally spaced and steerable front wheels and having a front bumper spaced forwardly from and extending laterally in front of said wheels, the improvement in said vehicle comprising, first and second pairs of substantially vertically spaced rollers located in front of and spaced forwardly from said first and second wheels, respectively, and means mounting said rollers on the rear side of said bumper for rotation about generally horizontal axes whereby the rollers will make rolling contact with said wheels if said vehicle is involved in a moving collision and said bumper is shoved rearwardly toward said wheels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.