Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Glare screen or visor
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-10
2001-11-13
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Glare screen or visor
Reexamination Certificate
active
06315348
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a visor shade that attaches to an otherwise conventional vehicle sun visor.
DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART
Sun visors can be an important part of safely driving a vehicle, particularly during daytime driving in bright sunlight. Almost all vehicles are provided with adjustable sun visors extending from the interior roofing of the vehicle, usually on both the driver and passenger sides. However, the sun visors provided often do not block all of the sunlight coming through a vehicle's windshield and into the eyes and face of a driver.
Sun visors can be bought to improve the safety of driving a vehicle. Most sun visors are attached to the bottom edge of the sun visors provided by a vehicle to effectively shield a driver from potentially impairing sunlight. Sun visors are well-known in the related art. The related art describes a number of sun visors, most of which utilize clumsy clamps and clips that attach an sun visor to and extending down from the sun visor provided with the vehicle.
Patents issued to Jonas (U.S. Pat. No. 3,304,118), Holladay (U.S. Pat. No. 3,837,703), Vu et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 4,982,992), Lozano (U.S. Pat. No. 5,613,725) and Moo et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 5,673,957) all illustrate the use of cumbersome clips, clamps and hinges with a sun visor. These devices may be difficult to put into position, particularly while operating a vehicle. Many times the mounting clips, clamps and hinges can also tear or puncture the existing sun visor when attaching the sun visor.
These are just some of the problems encountered with the use of current sun visors. What is needed is a sun visor that does not utilize bulky clips, clamps or hinges, is easy to use and install, and can be safely deployed while operating a vehicle. Perhaps a better design is the key needed to spur these needed changes
None of the above inventions and patents, taken either singly or in combination, is seen to describe the instant invention as claimed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The visor shade of the instant invention is attached to the back of an existing sun visor, and pivotally rotated by the driver of the vehicle into any desired position between the folded-up existing sun visor and the windshield of the vehicle. The visor shade utilizes a three-sided hinge and set screw that attaches the rectangular transparent visor body of the visor shade to the existing sun visor. The visor shade is manually adjusted into place without the use of clumsy clamps, clips or hinges. The visor shade is made of lightweight, rigid colored thermoplastic material that comes in a variety of colors and sizes to accommodate a wide range of vehicles.
Accordingly, it is a principal object of the invention to provide a visor shade which is attached to the existing sun visor provided by a vehicle.
It is another object of the invention to provide an improved visor shade that can be easily attached to an existing sun visor of a vehicle.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a visor shade that can be easily positioned in place by a driver while safely operating a vehicle.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a visor shade that does not puncture or tear an existing sun visor while attached to the existing sun visor.
It is an object of the invention to provide improved elements and arrangements thereof in an apparatus for the purposes described which is inexpensive, dependable and fully effective in accomplishing its intended purposes.
These and other objects of the present invention will become readily apparent upon further review of the following specification and drawings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2261881 (1941-11-01), Horstmann
patent: 3105718 (1963-10-01), Ralls
patent: 3304118 (1967-02-01), Jonas
patent: 3837703 (1974-09-01), Holladay
patent: 4053180 (1977-10-01), White
patent: 4982992 (1991-01-01), Vu et al.
patent: 5356192 (1994-10-01), Schierau
patent: 5613724 (1997-03-01), Alula
patent: 5613725 (1997-03-01), Lozano
patent: 5673957 (1997-10-01), Moo et al.
patent: 2310894 (1975-05-01), None
patent: 2153313 (1985-08-01), None
patent: 494645 (1955-11-01), None
patent: 510386 (1957-05-01), None
Faulkner Rhonda
Faulkner Willie
Litman Richard C.
Pape Joseph D.
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