Communications: electrical – Land vehicle alarms or indicators – External signal light system
Patent
1988-06-03
1989-11-07
Orsino, Joseph A.
Communications: electrical
Land vehicle alarms or indicators
External signal light system
293128, 296207, B60Q 100
Patent
active
048795437
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for protecting the finish on the door of an automobile from damage caused by someone opening the door of an automobile parked in the adjoining parking space. Secondly, the apparatus serves to protect the door of the adjacently parked automobile when the user opens his or her door. The device includes a transparent housing wherein a plurality of arcuate protective strips are deployed therein. Said arcuate protective protective strips including a guide track or channel located along the intermiate section thereof, said arcuate protective strips also including T-shaped flanges substantially depolyed along the opposite ends of each arcuate protective strip, whereby said guide track or channel and said T-shaped flanges communitively allow said plurality of said arcuate protective strips to extend along the longitudinal portion of the door of the automobile. Also provided is a tensile retention band wherein said device may be selectively retracted into said transparent housing. Pivotably affixed hook members provide axial displacement of the device between the longitudinal portion of the car door and the marginal portion of the flanged end of the car door. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a light emitting-signaling source located at the rear portion of its housing, which will notify another person that the user's door is ajar, and will also provide for directional or turn signaling during operation of the vehicle.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3550951 (1970-12-01), Cobbs
patent: 3582134 (1971-06-01), Shaff
patent: 4810013 (1989-03-01), Spears
Hofsass Jeffery A.
Litman Richard C.
Orsino Joseph A.
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