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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
ROHDE REYNOLDS, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.
VEHICLE-SIGNAL.1,367,989.
Specification of letters Patent.
Patented Feb. 8, 1921.
Application filed September 7, 1916. Serial No. 118,874.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Ronnr REYNOLDS, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Houston, in the county of Harris and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and
useful Improvements in Vehicle-Signals, of
which the following is a specification, ref-
erence being had to the accompanying draw-
ings.
10 This invention relates to signals for auto-
mobiles and other vehicles and particularly
to signals mounted upon the rear of a ve-
hicle and actuated by the driver for the
purpose of indicating the direction in which
15 the vehicle is' about to turn or whether the
vehicle is about to back, stop or slow down.
The general object of my invention is to
provide a very simple, easily applied and
easily rotated signal of this character which
20 is so constructed that it will attract a maxi-
mum of attention from the driver of a ve-
hicle in the rear and in whikh the signals
will be plainly observable at night as well
as by day.
25 A further object of the invention is .to
provide a signaling mechanism in which a
plurality of signal arms or semaphores are
used. connected by flexible connections to
operating means, these connections being
3o arranged vithin- a flexible conduit so that
the mechanism may be applied in the most
convenient manner to all makes of automo-
biles, or in various circumstances of opera-
tion.
35 Still another object is to provide a sig-
naling device of this character which" will
occupy .but little space and which will not
readily get out of order.
Other objects will appear in the course
40 of the following description..
My invention is -illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings, wherein:
Figure 1 is an elevation of my signaling
device' applied upon an automobile-;
45: Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the casing 10
showing the signal actuating members
within the casing and also showing the sig-
nals;
Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3' of
50 Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows;.
Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the means for
operating the various signals;
Fig.' 5 is a longitudinal sectional view
through the casing 21 at right:angles to the
55 section in Fig, 4; atid-
Fig. 6 is an elevation partly in sectionshowing a modified form of signaling mech-
anism.
Referring to these drawings, .10 designates
a casing which is preferably of sheet-metal, 60
though it may be made of any other suitable
material, the casing being open at its sides
but closed at its top, the sides at the rear
portion of the casing being also closed.- Ex-
tending through the casing from front to 65
rear, is a shaft 11, and surrounding this
shaft are a plurality of sleeves 12, these
sleeves being successively shorter so that
the outermost sleeve is shortest -of all as
illustrated clearly in Fig. 2. These sleeves 70
are rotatable upon each other and upon the
central shaft which is rotatable within the.
casing. A suitable bearing.13 may be pro-
vided to support the several sleeves and the
intermediate portion of the shaft, this bear- 75
ing being disposed to engage the outermost
sleeve 12 and being mounted in any suitable
manner upon the casing. Mounted upon
these several sleeves are the corresponding
pulleys or band wheels 14. 80
Mounted upon the shaft 11 is a semaphore
arm 15 and mounted upon each of the sleeves
12 is a corresponding semaphore- arm, all
of these semaphore arms being designated
16, and all alike except as.regards the sig- 85
naling indicia carried thereon. These sema-
phores are preferably of relatively thin
sheet metal such as galvanized iron and are
about one and five-eighths inches wide.
Normally the several semaphores 15- depend 90
.vertically and- are concealed from view by
the front of the casing-10. One of these,
semaphore arms carries upon it the word
'Stop" and' another one the word "Slow,"
still another the word "Reverse" and the 95
remaining arms carry the ,words "Right"
and "Left' respectively. Other words or
indicia may be used however.
Mounted in the frame 10 disposed in the
lower portion of. the casing are a plurality 100
of pulleys 17 and "over these pulleys pass
flexible connections such as chains- 18 which
extend upward to the several.' pulleys or
band wheels'. 14, the chains being wound
upon these band wheels so that when the re- 105
spective chains 18 are pulled the band
wheels and the respective-shafts will be ro-
tated' to raise the paddles or semaphores
connected thereto -into horizontal position.
Connected to the rear end of the casing is no
a nipplel19 to which in turn is connected a
flexible conduit 20 which, as illustrated in
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Reynolds, Rohde. Vehicle Signal, patent, September 7, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1258336/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.