US1268297A - Actuating means for radiator-protectors. - Google Patents

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W. .l. SUTCLIFFE. ACTUATING MEANS FOR RADIATOR PROTECTORS.

' APPLICATION FILED JULY 2.1917- Patented June 4:, 1918.

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Imventor;

WILLIS J. SUTCLIFFE, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

AGTUATING MEANS FOR RADIATOR-PROTECTORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June a, 191$.

Application filed. July 2, 1917. Serial No. 178,300.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIS J. SUTOLIFFE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Actuating Means for Radiator-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in actuating means for radiator protectors, and the object of my improvement is to supply for a movable cover for a radiator of an automobile means operable to shift the same in one direction combined with other means for resiliently retracting it and supporting it in a proper relation to the radiator.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the hood of an automobile showing my improved cover and the actuating means therefor mounted over the radiator, with the cover drawn up, and Fig. 2 is a like view, but showing the cover retracted to uncover the radiator.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several vlews.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 2 denotes a frame mounted on the hood 9 around the radiator 13. This frame at the top 10 and sides 2 has inturned edges which thus inclose and provide a runway for a flexible curtain l and its top cross-bar 5. The lower end of the curtain is secured on a roller 4 to be wound thereon, the pintles of said roller being rotatably mounted in bearing openings in end-plates 3 projecting forwardly from the lower part of said frame.

A spool or winding-drum 6 is fixed upon one end of one of said pintles, and a cable 7 is secured thereto to be wound thereon, the cable then being carried rearwardly through an opening 8 in the hood and within the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the rection, Winding up the apron,

hood, to be then passed through an opening in the dashboard for the convenience ofv the user.

A lazy-tongs 12 is positioned in front of the apron 1, having its lower end fastened to the middle of a crossbar .ll of said frame, while its upper end is fastened to the middle of the cross-bar 5 of the apron.

A helical tension spring 11 has its upper end secured to the middle of the frame-part 10, and extends downwardly over said lazytongs with its lower end secured to one of the pivotal connections of the latter.

hen the cable 7 is free, the tension of the spring 11 will unroll the apron 1 to cover the face of the radiator 13, the lazytongs extending. To uncover the radiator, a pull on the cable will unwind it from the drum 6 to rotate the roller in a reverse dicollapsing the lazy-tongs and placing the spring under tension, and the cable can then be secured in any convenient way to retain said parts in said positions.

The lazy-tongs affords a support to the apron 1, and, in conjunction with the side runways of the frame 2, serves to keep the apron close to the radiator face, preventing cold air from passing therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In a device of the character described, an apron, a fixed support, a yieldable resilient connection between said support and said apron adapted to shift the apron in one direction, a lazy-tongs also connected between said fixed' support and said apron, and actuating-means connected to said apron adapted to move it in a reverse direction while placing said resilient connection under tension and collapsing said lazytongs.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 14th day of June, 1917.

WILLIS J. SUTCLIFFE.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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