Wiper equipment
AssigneeTrico Products Corporation
InventorsPeter C. Pethers, Ivan A. Duck, Malcolm A. Carter
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Abstract
The need for separately manufactured left-hand and right-hand wiper arms, when a bend is provided along the length of the wiper arms, is avoided by enabling an inner end of a bar portion to be removed from a retainer portion, rotated through a half turn about the longitudinal center line of the inner end, and detachably reassembled with the retainer portion, and by enabling an arm termination to be removed from an outer end of the bar portion, rotated through a half turn about the longitudinal center line of the outer end, and detachably reassembled with the bar portion.
Claims6
A wiper arm comprising an inner retainer portion pivotable about a transverse axis on an arm head, an outer bar portion having an inner end telescopically engaging the distal end portion of said retainer portion detachably secured thereto in one position and in another position rotated through a half turn about its longitudinal center line, and having an outer end arm termination means for enabling connection to be made to a wiper blade, the bar portion being formed with at least one bend in a plane substantially parallel to the transverse axis so that the longitudinal center line of the outer end of the bar portion is not aligned with the longitudinal center line of the inner end of the bar portion;
- which includes cooperating latch means and keeper means on said outer bar portion for detachably and removably retaining the inner end of said outer bar portion in operative connection with said retainer portion in a position wherein said outer end of said bar portion extends at one fixed angular attitude and in another position rotated through a half turn about the longitudinal center line of the inner end wherein said outer end of the bar portion extends in another equal fixed angular attitude in an opposite direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.