1983-09-01
1985-11-05
Punter, William H.
G02B 508
Patent
active
045509883
ABSTRACT:
A rear view mirror mounted on the side of a truck is equipped with an air deflector and fluid dispenser for clearing foreign material from the viewing surface of the mirror. The air deflector has a generally flat forwardly directed section joined to a curved middle section. A terminal section joined to the curved section has a lip forming a passage for collecting foreign material and fluids from the air directed toward the viewing surface. The fluid dispenser has an elongated tube provided with a plurality of fluid discharge orifices. The tube is mounted on the lip with a plurality of releasable clips. Fluid under pressure supplied to the tube is directed onto the one side edge of the mirror and carried across the mirror surface with a moving sheet of air to clear mirror surface of foreign materials, such as insects, dust, dirt, mud, snow, ice and rain.
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Rear-Safety-View Mfg. Co., Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, TX.
Re-Trac Catalog, pp. 8 and 9.
Harder Benjamin P.
Harder Willard J.
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