Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Glare screen or visor
Patent
1994-12-06
1996-03-19
Mitchell, David M.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Glare screen or visor
411 48, 411 60, B60J 302
Patent
active
054998549
ABSTRACT:
A sunshade mounting bracket assembly for mounting a sunshade to a vehicle without the use of tools or fasteners. The bracket assembly includes an outer bracket, an inner bracket, and an elbow to which the sunshade is attached. The outer bracket is mountable to an apertured panel such as the sheet metal interior roof of the vehicle. The inner bracket includes resilient locking prongs which define an interior hollow into which the elbow is inserted. The resilient locking prongs are structured to be insertable into an opening in the outer bracket. After their insertion into the outer bracket, the prongs engage the outer bracket when the inner bracket is axially rotated relative to the outer bracket from a first rotational orientation to a second rotational orientation for use. During their engagement with the outer bracket, the prongs are compressed radially inward to compress the elbow maintained within the hollow, which results in rotation of the elbow relative to the inner bracket being frictionally resisted. A method of installing the bracket assembly to a vehicle is also disclosed.
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Beaver Jeffrey L.
Crotty, III Willard E.
Crotty Corporation
Hoge Gary C.
Mitchell David M.
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