GB2111447A

GB2111447A - Vehicle sun visor

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Publication number: GB2111447A
Application number: GB08137616A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Theodor Berg
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1981-12-14
Filing date: 1981-12-14
Publication date: 1983-07-06
Also published as: GB2111447B

Abstract

A visor for vehicles and crafts has the form of two members whereof one magnetically adheres to the second one and is freely movable to desired position along the surface of said second member. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION A visor for vehicles and crafts This invention relates to a visor for vehicles and crafts (boats, aircraft), by which visor the shielding of glaring light can be adjusted to a far greater extent than it is possible with the visors, which normally are mounted as standard equipment in modern vehicles. The visor consists in principle of a rectangular plate, which is mounted pivotally on the inside of the windscreen in front of the driver and shields glare from ahead or from the side.

When driving in the evening at sunset or on a winding and hilly road, the driver often is blinded by the sun, which because of its position above the horizon and/or the movements of the car passes outside the visor edges, irrespective of how the visor is manipulated.

Several solutions for this problem have been proposed, a.o. in US-PS 3 410 602, which discloses a two-piece protective device where one piece in the form of a plate can be moved relative to the second piece, which is the visor attached to the vehicle. The size of the shielded surface can thereby be increased or reduced to a certain degree. The shielding capacity of the plate, however, is limited, because it can be moved substantially only vertically upward and downward in relation to the visor. The plate does not render it possible to shield light incident from the side of the visor. Further solutions of increasing the shielding surface or varying it have been proposed, for example in US-PS 2 596 573 and 3 336 072, where a shielding effect in lateral direction is tried to be brought about by manufacturing the visor in more than two pieces.

One piece can be moved vertically, and one or more pieces are moved horizontally or laterally relative to the visor attached to the vehicle. Such visors not only are relatively expensive to make, they also require several manipulations in order to shield sunlight incident, for example, from beneath the visor and on the side thereof.

The present invention eliminates the aforesaid disadvantages, in that the visor has been given the characterizing features defined in the attached

claims.

The invention is described in greater detail in the following by way of embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 shows a visor according to the invention, and Fig. 2 shows a slightly modified embodiment thereof.

1 designates a first member of the protection which has the form of a relatively stiff plate provided with an operating handle 2. The member 1 is made of or contains a magnetically attractable substance. 3 designates a second member of the protection which at the embodiment shown consists of a sheet metal or the like, which is folded along its upper edge. On its surface remote from the folding, the metal sheet is coated with a sheet or foil 4 or permanent magnetic material. The member 3, by its folded portion acting like a clamp can be "hang"attached in a simple way to the upper edge of the visor, which normally is found in the vehicle and conventionally is suspended rotatably and pivotally above the windscreen in front of the driver and usually also of the passenger.

It is easily understood that the member 1 can be moved in all directions along the member 3. By the magnetic force and friction between the members 1 and 3, the member 1 is retained in the position into which it was moved. It is, thus, possible to shield with member 1 glaring sunlight, irrespective of whether it is incident from beneath, on the side of or obliquely beneath, even above the visor or member 3, in that the member 1 by a simple manipulation is moved along the member 3 to the desired position.

According to Fig. 2, the member 1 has been bent portion 6 is caused to adhere to the member 3.

possible also to shield light incident obliquely from the side, in that by a simple manipulation the bent portion 6 is caused to adhere to member 3.

The remaining portion of member 1 then forms an angle with the member 3 and thereby renders it possible to shield off light incident, for example, through a side window.

At another practical and aesthetically attractive embodiment of the invention, the member 3 consists of two visor portions located adjacent one another and upwardly connected to each other. The surface of one is said portions which faces toward the second visor portion is coated with the magnetic foil. In this case the member 1 is located between the two visor portions, attracted by the foil. The principle, however, as is easily understood, here is the same at it was described with reference to Fig. 1, except that the member 1 partially is concealed more or less by member 3.

It is, of course, possible within the scope of the invention to provide the visor already mounted in the vehicle with the foil 4, or the visor directly can be manufactured to be permanently magnetic.

Claims 1. A visor for vehicles and crafts, characterized in that it comprises a first member in the form of a plate, which magnetically adheres to and is freely movable at a second plate-shaped member, which in known manner is movably attached to the vehicle.

2. A visor as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said second member is provided with a magnet in the form of a sheet or foil, which covers substantially entirely one side of said second member.

3. A visor as defined in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said second member is detachably attached to the visor mounted in the vehicle.

4. A visor as defined in claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that said first member is provided with a handle for enabling its operation to a

**WARNING** end of DESC field may overlap start of CLMS **.

Claims

**WARNING** start of CLMS field may overlap end of DESC **. SPECIFICATION A visor for vehicles and crafts This invention relates to a visor for vehicles and crafts (boats, aircraft), by which visor the shielding of glaring light can be adjusted to a far greater extent than it is possible with the visors, which normally are mounted as standard equipment in modern vehicles. The visor consists in principle of a rectangular plate, which is mounted pivotally on the inside of the windscreen in front of the driver and shields glare from ahead or from the side. When driving in the evening at sunset or on a winding and hilly road, the driver often is blinded by the sun, which because of its position above the horizon and/or the movements of the car passes outside the visor edges, irrespective of how the visor is manipulated. Several solutions for this problem have been proposed, a.o. in US-PS 3 410 602, which discloses a two-piece protective device where one piece in the form of a plate can be moved relative to the second piece, which is the visor attached to the vehicle. The size of the shielded surface can thereby be increased or reduced to a certain degree. The shielding capacity of the plate, however, is limited, because it can be moved substantially only vertically upward and downward in relation to the visor. The plate does not render it possible to shield light incident from the side of the visor. Further solutions of increasing the shielding surface or varying it have been proposed, for example in US-PS 2 596 573 and 3 336 072, where a shielding effect in lateral direction is tried to be brought about by manufacturing the visor in more than two pieces. One piece can be moved vertically, and one or more pieces are moved horizontally or laterally relative to the visor attached to the vehicle. Such visors not only are relatively expensive to make, they also require several manipulations in order to shield sunlight incident, for example, from beneath the visor and on the side thereof. The present invention eliminates the aforesaid disadvantages, in that the visor has been given the characterizing features defined in the attached claims. The invention is described in greater detail in the following by way of embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 shows a visor according to the invention, and Fig. 2 shows a slightly modified embodiment thereof.

4. A visor as defined in claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that said first member is provided with a handle for enabling its operation to a desired position in relation to said second member.

5. A visor as defined in any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said first member is angularly bent.

6. A visor for vehicles and crafts substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

New claims or amendments to claims filed on 2 July 1 982 Superseded claims 1-6 New or amended claims: 1. A visor for vehicles and crafts, comprising a first member in the form of a rigid plate with an even surface which magnetically adheres to but is freely movable on a second plate-shaped member, the second plate member being movably attached to the vehicle and being provided with a magnet covering substantially entirely one of its sides.

2. A visor as defined in claim 1, in which said magnet is in the form of a sheet or foil, which covers substantially entirely one side of said second member.

3. A visor as defined in claim 1 or claim 2, in which said second member is detachably attached to the visor.

4. A visor as defined in any of claims 1, 2 or 3, in which said first member is provided with a handle for enabling it to be moved to any desired position in relation to said second member.

5. A visor as claimed in any of the preceding claims, in which said first member is angularly bent.