Special receptacle or package – Combined or convertible – Packaged assemblage or kit
Patent
1993-08-23
1995-06-06
Foster, Jimmy G.
Special receptacle or package
Combined or convertible
Packaged assemblage or kit
7144, 7158, 30123, 206223, 206232, 206578, A62B 3700, B25F 100, B26B 2902
Patent
active
054214602
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to emergency equipment for motor vehicles for use in traffic accidents.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
As is generally known, the occupants of motor vehicles which come to a standstill are particularly endangered in case of reduced visibility, poor road conditions and dense traffic, while the prescribed warning triangles, or emergency reflective triangles, are unable to provide adequate protection in some cases, especially when they are either not easily accessible or damaged, incorrectly erected, or sometimes even are missing.
The occupants of motor vehicles are moreover in some cases endangered after road accidents because they do not undo the safety belts or open the doors or windows and thus can not free themselves from the vehicle. When road accidents occur, assistance moreover does not always come in time to avoid further accidents.
After a traffic accident it is moreover required to draw up an accident report but this is often difficult and uncertain, the necessary materials (accident-reporting form, pens, measuring tape, wax crayons lamp etc.) either being absent or not easily accessible. In bad weather and under poor road conditions there is among other things the danger of pileups of several vehicles.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide an emergency equipment for motor vehicles which provides improved protection of the occupants especially in the case of road accidents and which can largely take the above-mentioned problems and dangers into account.
This object is met in accordance with the invention by the emergency equipment having the features defined in claim 1.
This emergency equipment is characterized in that it forms a hollow, closed, rigid, multi-section rod having a first, elongated, closed end-section which is provided with a knife and a striker in such a manner as to allow safety belts to be cut and vehicle windows to be smashed in an emergency in order to rapidly free the occupants of the vehicle.
Said hollow rod consists of several sections which are rigidly connected to each other at their front faces by means of fastening elements so that the hollow rod may be stowed as a whole by means of a holder in the vehicle so as to be easily accessible and may serve in an emergency to immediately and rapidly free the occupants by means of the knife and the striker.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The individual sections of the hollow rod are designed to contain various special accessories for use in an emergency. Said first end section is here advantageously subdivided into two coaxial compartments in such a manner that an outer, annular compartment can serve to house a rolled-up accident-reporting form and a central compartment can serve to house a collapsible accident-warning triangle.
Said first end section advantageously comprises several longitudinal holes for accommodating wax crayons or pens and a small lamp outside the outer, annular compartment. These longitudinal holes may be designed as an element of a plug connection for the next section or a corresponding cover.
Said knife is preferably mounted in such manner on the inner side of a clip which is attached to the end of the first end section that it may be slipped under a tightened safety belt in order to cut through the belt in an emergency.
A special measuring tape roll advantageously forms one section of the hollow rod so that the measuring tape is directly available.
A special, disposable camera with a flashlight and a special flashing light or flasher lamp advantageously constitute respective sections of the hollow rod.
The invention will now be explained by means of an embodiment and the accompanying drawings which show the following.
FIG. 1 shows a partial longitudinal section along I--I in FIG. of the emergency equipment according to one embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2 shows a partial view of the emergency equipment according to FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows a section along III--III in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 shows a partial section of an exam
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