Hangar for vehicle accessories

A combination of mechanical elements by which an accessory is connected to a vehicle wherein the accessory can be moved between a deployed position and a retracted position, the mechanism comprising:

• a flat, vertically oriented bracket removably fixed to the vehicle;
• parallel cylinders affixed to the flat bracket and passing therethrough;
• deployment shafts closely and translatably received in the cylinders;
• an accessory bracket fixed to the shafts and translatable with the shafts with respect to the cylinders;
• a shield bracket engaged to one of the deployment shafts between the flat bracket and the accessory bracket, the shield bracket movable from a first position on the one deployment shaft to a second position on the one deployment shaft, the first position being more remote from the accessory bracket than is the second position;
• an accessory pivoted on the accessory bracket;
• a shield pivoted on the shield bracket and translatable along the one deployment shaft therewith;
• a common axis about which the accessory pivots on the accessory bracket and about which the shield pivots on the shield bracket;
• means for locking the shield to the accessory while the secondary accessory bracket is in the second position.

A combination of elements by which an accessory is deployably comes to a vehicle, comprising:

• a shaft translatable relative to the vehicle;
• shaft engagement means attached to the vehicle for translatably receiving the shaft;
• an accessory bracket fixed to the shaft;
• a shield bracket engaged to the shaft, the shield bracket movable from a first position on the shaft to a second position on the shaft, the first position being more remote from the accessory bracket than the second position;
• an accessory pivoted on the accessory bracket;
• a shield pivoted on the shield bracket and translatable along the one deployment shaft therewith;
• a common axis about which the accessory pivots on the accessory bracket and about which the shield pivots on the shield bracket;
• means for locking the shield to the accessory while the accessory bracket is in the second position.