Tip the Lamps to Stop Headlight Glare 



Night and a curve in the road ? 

 Pull the lever and swing the lamps 



Casing mounted 

 on steering postx 



1 lie lamps are set at an angle which will brightly 

 illuminate the road without unnecessary glare 



DEVISED to eliminate the disadvan- 

 tages of the various types of auto- 

 mobile headlight dimmers now on 

 the market, which either do not prevent 

 glare or reduce the light to such an extent 

 that it is not sufficient for country driving, 

 a system of tilting head 

 lamps has been invented. 

 It enables the driver to 

 set the lamps at any de- 

 sired angle so that the 

 light may shine fully up- 

 on the road with the rays 

 parallel or at an angle to 

 the ground. The tipping 

 head lamps also enable 

 the driver to quickly se- 

 cure the full headlight 

 illumination after the use 

 of the dim headlights. 

 This is of especial im- 

 portance in country road 

 driving when it is essen- 

 tial to dim the lights 

 upon passing another vf^- 

 hide and to resume the 

 full brilliancy immediately 



The mechanism which moves 

 the lamps at the pull of a lever 



afterward. 

 Although the invention may be applied 

 to any make of car, the design shown in 

 the accom[)anying sketches, is particu- 

 larly adapted to Ford automobiles and 



may be applied to them simply 

 by the removal of the ordinary 

 head-lamp brackets. 



The device consists of one 

 transverse shaft carrying two 

 headlights and mounted in two 

 bearings bolted to the front 

 frame member in front of the 

 radiator. A bell-crank lever 

 arm is keyed to the shaft and is 

 pushed backward or forward 

 by means of a flexible metal 

 shafting inserted through a hole 

 cut in the radiator core and 

 then carried to the rear under 

 the motor hood to a point on 

 the steering column directly 

 below the hand wheel. The 

 lamps are tilted downward from 

 their vertical position by twist- 

 ing the flexible shaft slightly on its axis 

 so that a pin driven through it near 

 the end on the steering column is en- 

 abled to slide in a slot with three notches 

 cut in the casing over the cable end. A 

 longitudinal movement is then given to 

 the shafting by means 

 of a small handle so that 

 the bell-crank lever is 

 moved forward or back- 

 ward. When the handle 

 is again released, the pin 

 will quickly spring back 

 to the next notch by 

 reason of the energy 

 stored up in the flexible 

 shafting resulting from 

 its being twisted. A 

 further movement of the 

 handle tips the lamps 

 to a still greater degree 

 while the longitudinal 

 movement in the opposite 

 direction similarly brings 

 the lamps back to their 

 normal position. The 

 operating lever is so easy to turn 

 that the driver need not divert his 

 eyes from the road to manipulate 

 it and move the light where he 

 wants it. 



Handle 



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