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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE6
WILLIAM ERNEST SQUIER, OF BURXBURNETT, TEXAS.
AUTOMOBILE-SIGNAL.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Nov. 15,1921.
Application filed January 27, 1921. Serial No. 440,452.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM ERNEST
SQUIER, citizen of the United States, resid-
ing at Burkburnett, in the county of Wich-
5 ita and State of Texas, have invented cer-
tain new and useful Improvements in Auto-
mobile-Signals; and I do declare the follow-
ing to be a full, clear, and exact description
of the invention, such as will enable others
10 skilled in the art to which it appertains to
make and use the same.
This invention relates to an improved sig-
nal for vehicles, the same being especially
designed to be used on automobiles and serv-
15 ing to indicate the direction of movement of
the vehicle carrying it to enable the drivers
of other vehicles to govern themselves ac-
cordingly and thus overcome and reduce
the number of accidents which now occur
20 because of the lack of proper means for
indicating the intent of movement of the
various machines.
The principal object of the invention is
to generally improve upon and simplify de-
25 vices of this class by providing a signal
which is adapted to be supported near the
front of the vehicle, this signal being dis-
posed at a rather high and desirable eleva-
tion and including a pair of stationary indi-
30 cators of suitable types which are disposed
at substantial right angles to each other in
order to render them easily and readily visi-
ble throughout a radius of approximately
two hundred and seventy degrees. With
35 such a signal, drivers of other vehicles ap-
proaching the signal from three different
points will be able to easily and readily
ascertain the direction of movement of the
machine carrying the signal. This partien-
40 lar type of signal is especially useful at in-
tersecting streets.
Another object of the invention is to pro-
vide a signal embodying the aforesaid an-
gularly disposed indicators, the same em-
45 bodying rotary legend displaying lamp boxes
to render the device highly effective at night,
these boxes being associated with shields so
as to protect the driver's eyes, from the glare
of the light.
50 A further object of the invention is to
provide an automobile signal wherein the
construction and arrangement of parts is
such that the illuminating devices may be
easily replaced in or removed from their
,5 housing and access had to iny parts of thedevice for making necessary repairs or for
any other reasons.
Other objects and advantages of the in-
vention will become apparent during the
course of the following description. 60
In the accompanying drawings forming
a part of this specification and in which like
numerals are employed to designate like
parts throughout the same:
Figure 1 is an elevational view of a sig- 65
nal constructed in accordance with this in-
vention, the same being shown in use on an
automobile.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view show-
ing the angularly disposed shields and gear 70
housing.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken
on the plane of the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.
Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional views taken
on the planes of the lines 4-4 and 5-5, re- 75
spectively, of Fig. 3.
Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line 6-6
of Fig. 1, showing the segmental rack and
operating handle which is associated there-
with. 80
- Referring to the drawings wherein the
preferred embodiment of the invention is
clearly illustrated, the numerals' 1 and 2 des-
ignate generally the aforesaid angularly dis-
posed rearwardly extending indicators. 85
These indicators could be of any other suit-
able construction, but they preferably in-
clude rotary legend display devices 3 in the
form of lamp boxes, these boxes being rota-
tably and removably supported in any suit- 90
able way in tubular casings 4 which constitute
the aforesaid shields. At this point, I wish
to state that inasmuch as the indicators 1 and
2 are duplicates of each other, a description of
one will suffice for both. The casing 4 is 95
provided in its front face with a horizon-
tally disposed elongated slot 5 and the lamp
box, which is preferably rectangular in shape
is adapted to have one of its sides positioned
in alinement with this box so that the legend 100
appearing on this' side will be visible
through the slot. It is understood that in
actual use, the lamp box will. be equipped
with a' plurality of different colored glasses
6, each of these glasses 'bearing a different 105
legend such as "Stop", etc., as is usual. 'Re-
ferring more specifically to the lamp box 3,
it will be seen that it is equipped at its inner
end with a stub axle 7 carrying a beveled
gear 8 which serves a purpose to be herein- .111,397,463.
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Squier, William Ernest. Automobile-Signal., patent, November 15, 1921; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1258785/m1/3/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.