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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
FRANK W. PRESTON, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.
ENGINE-CANOPY FOR MOTOR-VEHICLES.1,164,864.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Dec. 21,1915.
Application filed October 21, 1915. Serial No. 57,163.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, FRANK W. PRESTON,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Houston, in the county of Harris and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Engine-Canopies for
Motor-Vehicles, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention contemplates an improved
10 engine canopy for motor vehicles and has
as its primary object to provide a device of
this character which may be readily fitted
within the engine hood above the engine
for preventing rain or moisture entering
15 through the hood from coming in contact
with the spark plugs of the engine or other
parts of the mechanism thereof.
The invention has as a further object to
provide a device of this character which may
20 be applied to any conventional type of auto-
mobile without the necessity of structural
change therein and which, when in position,
will not interfere with free access to the
engine. And a still further object of the in-
25 vention is to provide a device of this char-
acter which will be cheap and which may
thus be manufactured and placed upon the
market at reasonable cost.
Other and incidental objects will appear
30 as the description proceeds and in the draw-
ings wherein I have illustrated the preferred
embodiment of the invention and wherein
similar reference characters designate cor-
responding parts throughout the several
35 views, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional
view showing my improved canopy ar-
ranged within the hood of a conventional
type of motor vehicle, Fig. 2 is a perspective
view showing the canopy detached, Fig. 3
40 is a fragmentary perspective view particu-
larly showing one of the attaching springs
for the canopy, and Fig. 4 is a similar view
showing a slight modification of the inven-
tion.
45 For convenience, I have shown my im-
proved canopy in connection with a conven-
tional type of motor vehicle including a
dash 10 which is provided with a hood
flange 11. The radiator is indicated at 12
50 and, as usual, this radiator is provided with
vertically arranged waste-pipes 13.disposed
adjacent the inner face of the radiator and
contiguous to opposite sides thereof. Ex-
tending inwardly from the radiator, is aflange 14 adapted to- coact with the flange 55
11 in receiving the hood 15. Connecting the
upper end of the radiator with the dash, is
the usual horizontally arranged brace rod
or connecting rod 16.
Coming now more particularly to the sub- 60
ject of the present invention, I provide a
canopy which includes a body portion 17
preferably formed from an oblong piece of
fabric such as canvas or duck although, as
will be understood, any other suitable ma- 65
terial may be employed. The longitudinal
margins of the body portion 17 are each
overlapped to provide a reinforcing hem 18
preferably secured by a single line of stitch-
ing. At its inner end, the body portion is 70
overlapped to provide a transversely ex-
tending reinforcing hem 19 also preferably
secured by a single line of stitching and ar-
ranged in the said hem is a series of trans-
versely spaced eyelets 20. 75
Arranged in the forward extremities of
the hems 18 are eyelets 21 and freely engag-
ing in the said eyelets are yieldable attach-
ing members or hooks 22.. Each of these
hooks is preferably formed from a single 80
length of suitable resilient wire coiled inter-
mediate its ends into the form of a helical
spring, with the ends of the said wire bent
to define, one a loop 23 engaging in one of
the eyelets 21 with its free end disposed 85
within the spring as more particularly
shown in Fig. 3, and the other to define a
terminal hook 24. By this construction, the
members 22 may, should necessity arise, be
readily detached from the body portion. 90
In Fig. 1 of the drawings, I have shown
the manner in which my improved canopy
is arranged within the hood 15 and in Fig.
2, the canopy is shown in the form it would
take when so mounted within the hood. 95
The body portion 17 of the canopy is. en-
gaged over the rod 16 to extend longitudi-
nally thereof with one of the hems 18 de-
pending upon each side of the rod. Con-
nected to the dash 10 immediately beneath 100
the flange 11 is a series of hooks 25 uni-
formly spaced from the flange and adapted
to receive .the eyelets 20 for connecting the
inner end of the body portion 10 to the
dash. The hooks 24 of the attaching mem- 105
bers 22 are then engaged with the waste-
pipes 13 at opposite sides of the radiator 12
and, as will be observed, the said attach-
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Preston, Frank W. Engine-Canopy for Motor-Vehicles., patent, December 21, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859248/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.