Dual purpose lamp assembly for use, for example, as a combined fog and cornering lamp on a motor vehicle

A combined fog and cornering lamp assembly readily adaptable for installation on either side of a motor vehicle, the lamp assembly comprising:

• (a) a housing having an open front end;
• (b) a lens closing the front end of the housing;
• (c) a fixed reflector fixedly mounted within the housing and oriented forwardly of the housing;
• (d) a light bulb mounted to the fixed reflector and generally extending forwardly therefrom;
• (e) a movable reflector, smaller than the fixed reflector, disposed forwardly of the fixed reflector and having an aperture formed therein to permit the light bulb to extend therethrough with clearance, the movable reflector being normally held in a fog lamp position for reflecting the light rays from the light bulb in the forward direction of the lamp assembly in coaction with the fixed reflector, the movable reflector being pivotable about a vertical axis from the fog lamp position to either of two cornering lamp positions, which are angularly displaced from the fog lamp position toward both sides of the lamp assembly, for reflecting part of the light rays from the source toward the opposite sides of the lamp assembly;
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• (f) two way drive means for pivoting the movable reflector between the fog lamp position and either of the two cornering lamp positions depending upon which side of the motor vehicle the lamp assembly is to be installed on;
• (g) whereby, being mounted to the fixed reflector so as to extend forwardly therefrom through the aperture in the movable reflector, the light bulb hardly intercepts the light rays that have been reflected from the movable reflector.