Trailer tow mirror

US6896379B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Britax Rainsfords Pty. Limited · AU

Inventors

• Paul Home · Adelaide, AU
• Paul R. Henion · Troy, US
• Peter Robert Rothe · Adelaide, AU
• David Henderson Woollard · Echunga, AU
• Barry Whitford · Happy Valley, AU
• Trevor Fimeri · Adelaide, AU
• Simon Orme · McLaren Vale, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 2003
• Grant date: May 24, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T403/7077
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A mirror assembly has a pair of telescoping tubular supports extending between a support base and a mirror head to provide adjustment of the mirror head toward and away from the support base. Friction shoes within the tubular supports releasably hold such supports against unintentional telescoping movement. Cooperating stops on the telescoping supports limit outward movement of the mirror head and prevent complete separation of the telescoping supports. The tubular supports are hingedly attached to the support base for rotation about a vertical axis, and cooperating detents and spring elements on the supports and support base releasably hold the supports against rotation.