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US 7,243,882 B2Granted
Gauge display assembly
AssigneeGauge Works, LLC
InventorsGregory E. Day, Dwight C. Green
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Abstract
An assembly for attaching gauges or other accessories to vehicles provides a rampart member for securing the assembly to a vehicle surface and a gauge display member secured to the rampart member for receiving and displaying gauges and other instruments.
Claims20
An above-dash gauge display mount, comprising:
- a gauge display member having a face portion, a beard portion and an interior wall, said face portion having a substantially horizontal top edge lying in a substantially horizontal plane when said mount is in an upright position, said beard portion integrally formed with said face portion, said face portion further including at least one opening therein;
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- a rampart member not integrally formed with said gauge display member and securable to said interior wall of said gauge display member, said rampart member having a substantially flat section having at least an upper edge and left and right edges, said rampart member further having an inflexible lip portion extending from the left edge to the right edge along a lower inner portion of said flat section, said lip portion having an internal and external face such that said external face can mate securely therealong with said gauge display member interior wall, thereby creating an opening between said gauge display member top edge and said rampart member upper edge.
An after-market gauge display assembly, comprising:
- a rampart configured so as to reside against a windshield, the rampart including an inflexible lip portion;
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- a gauge display member not integrally formed with the rampart and secured to said rampart lip portion so as to form an opening between the rampart and the gauge display member.
An after-market gauge display assembly, comprising:
- a gauge display member having an inner wall and a ring member forming an opening in said gauge display member;
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- a rampart member having an inflexible lip portion extending from an inner surface thereof, said lip portion thereby forming a back groove on an outer surface of said rampart member capable of concealing one or more wires, said lip member further having an exterior facing surface not integrally formed with and cooperatively engaging said gauge display member inner wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.