Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Glare screen or visor
Reexamination Certificate
2000-12-04
2001-12-04
Gordon, Stephen T. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Glare screen or visor
C296S097100, C296S097200
Reexamination Certificate
active
06325442
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a supplemental sun shield. More particularly, it relates to an adjustable supplemental sun shield for semi-permanent mounting on a front windshield visor of a motor vehicle.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
All drivers of motor vehicles can attest to the fact that there are certain times during a day when the vehicle's direction of travel and the sun's position in the sky create a near blinding driving situation. Even at night time, an on-coming vehicle with its bright lights on can cause a blinding effect. All vehicles are equipped with windshield visors for the front windshield. Each visor is simply flipped down from a rest position adjacent the vehicle's roof liner to a position which about parallels the windshield and is near the windshield's top edge. The standard sized visor is dimensioned to leave a substantial amount of front windshield area available for viewing purposes. Most sun problems are readily handled with the vehicle's standard windshield visors.
Certain travel and sun position conditions occur which create a sun glare problem which the standard windshield visors of the motor vehicle are not able to fully eliminate. A larger sized visor would meet the need, though would also interfere with the driver's view of the road. Having to stop at a traffic light and then having to watch the stop light for it to change can be difficult too at times. The standard opaque windshield visor is of no value in these situations. The sun glare problem is very prevalent, experienced by all drivers at least occasionally and by some drivers on an almost daily basis. Numerous attempts have been made to produce a product which attaches to the windshield visor to solve what has proved to be a longstanding problem. U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,304,118, 3,545,805, 3,954,297, 4,167,287, 4,317,589, 4,635,995, 5,611,591, 5,673,957, 5,678,880, and 6,012,758 contain disclosures of several product attempts. There are only a few characteristics which a successful supplemental sun shield product must possess. It must be universally adaptable for use on all or at least most all motor vehicle models. The product must be easily accessed by the driver and readily adjusted to the particular condition. The product also must be inexpensive. To date, no product intended for use in blocking out sun glare in the motor vehicle has been developed which truly has all the aforementioned characteristics.
In accord with a long felt and widely recognized need, there has now been developed a supplemental sun shield for use in a motor vehicle. The supplemental sun shield is conducive to mass production with low manufacturing costs. The supplemental sun shield is readily positioned on the motor vehicle's windshield visor. It is also readily adjusted to a use position as needed. The supplemental sun shield of the invention is adaptable for installation on most vehicle models and is beneficial to drivers of all normal heights.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A supplemental sun shield comprises a clip member and a glare reducing polymeric sheet element rotatably and slidably mounted on the clip member. The clip member is for mounting on the auto vehicle's windshield visor in a manner where it can move laterally depending on the need. The clip member has two elongated legs, each having an upper terminus and a lower terminus. The legs are joined together at their lower terminuses to form a generally U-shaped configuration. A hook-like arm for the sheet element extends from a front face of one of the elongated legs. The clip member further has a gripper means for gripping the windshield visor. The glare reducing polymeric sheet element has a substantially horizontal slot near an upper edge. The slot of the sheet element fits over the hook-like arm of the clip member. When needed, the glare reducing polymeric sheet element is capable of being radially rotated about the hook-like arm and laterally slid over the hook-like arm of the clip member until the sheet element reaches a position where sun glare is blocked.
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patent: 3158396 (1964-11-01), Berger
patent: 3415569 (1968-12-01), Leevo
patent: 5259657 (1993-11-01), Arendt et al.
patent: 2632255 (1989-12-01), None
patent: 002662119-A (1991-11-01), None
patent: 002676403-A1 (1992-11-01), None
Coletta Lori L
Gordon Stephen T.
Wilson Charles R.
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