Direction Indicator for Motor Vehicles (Patent No: 299509)

Inventor: Storms, Patrick

Location: Bluffton

Comments: N/A

Description: Patrick Storms, Bluffton, Alberta, Canada, 22nd April, 1930. Filed 17th January, 1929. Serial No. 340,722.

Claim.—1. A direction indicator for motor vehicles including visible direction indicating: means, and means carried by the steering knuckles of the motor vehicle to cause functioning of the first-mentioned means upon operation of the steering mechanism.

2. A direction indicator for motor vehicles, including means to indicate the right and left turning of the motor vehicle to parties following the vehicle, and means controlled by the steering knuckles of the vehicle steering mechanism to complete an electric circuit through the first-mentioned means and thus cause functioning of the latter upon operation of the steering mechanism to indicate the direction of turning of the motor vehicle.

3. A direction indicator for motor vehicles, including the combination with the axle and steering knuckles working thereon, of insulation blocks carried by said axle near the ends thereof and having a pair of spaced electric switch contact members on each block, lamps mounted at the rear of the motor vehicle with one lamp serving as a left turn direction indicating lamp and another as a right turn direction indicating lamp, a source of electric energy for the several lamps, electric connections between said source of electric energy and said contact members and between one of each set of contact members and one of said direction indicating lamps, a circuit closing switch member carried by each of said steering knuckles and adapted to engage and connect the pair of spaced electric switch contact members on the adjacent block and thus complete the electric circuit through one of the direction indicating lamps upon turning of the vehicle in either direction, means for completing the circuit through another of said lamps when the brakes of the motor vehicle are applied, and independent means for controlling the electric circuit through the remaining lamp serving as the vehicle tail light.

Claims allowed, 3.