Prince Corporation

Carl W Flowerday

Ronald A Dykstra

Dennis J Fleming

Konrad H Marcus

Edward T Boerema

Gordon B Kempkers

A container holder includes a vehicle armrest having a generally horizontally extending recess opening at the front for receiving a slide member defining a support floor for containers. Pivotally mounted to the slide member are a pair of arms which define sidewalls for selectively supporting sides of a container positioned on the slide floor. The slide member is slidably supported within the recess of the vehicle support member for movement between a fully retracted and concealed stored position and selected extended positions permitted the arms, which are biased to move away from each other, to span different diameter containers.

Container holder for a vehicle

A beverage container holder for a vehicle includes a housing having a recess for receiving a container holder member for storage. The container holder member includes foldable members which unfold to define the holder member when the holder member is extended from the housing for use. In another embodiment, the beverage container holder includes a support having a well formed therein with a vertically movable platform located in the well. A control structure is provided which extends between the support and the platform for controlling the motion of the platform as a container is placed therein to provide a vertically adjustable support floor for the container placed in the well.

Beverage container holder for vehicles

Beverage container holder and vehicles

An indirect interior vehicle light preferably located along the top edge of each of the forward vehicle doors which directs low level light downwardly and below the eye level of the vehicle occupants. The system includes an elongated generally L-shaped housing defining a light shield. The housing includes one wall which extends generally downwardly and defines a downwardly facing light transmissive window.

Interior vehicle light

An illuminated vanity mirror package includes guide and support members which allow the package to translate and rotate to a variety of use positions. In a preferred embodiment, the package is mounted within a recess of a vehicle visor and can be reversed between flush-mounted stored and use positions as well as intermediate use positions.

Illuminated vanity mirror assembly

A visor includes a body having a recess with an access opening along a lower edge of the visor. A generally rectangular vanity mirror panel assembly is pivotally coupled to the visor body to pivotally move from a stored position within the recess to a use position extending from the recess. The resultant structure provides a useful mirror lowered below the visor in a convenient location for use and having an aspect ratio conforming to that of a person's face.

Visor with pivoted concealed vanity mirror

An armrest assembly includes a pair of mounting brackets each including sockets for pivotally receiving a pair of spaced L-shaped legs facing outwardly from each other to provide a compact structure to which a padded armrest can be attached for use.

Vehicle armrest support

A visor includes a snap-in frame which extends inside a visor mirror receiving recess and engages its sidewalls compressing upholstery fabric against the walls and securely holding it in place. In one embodiment, the visor core is of clamshell construction in which the upholstery material is wrapped around the free edges and held in place around the peripheral boundary of the visor by the clamping action of the visor core. A method of manufacturing a visor of such construction includes the steps of surrounding a visor core having two halves with upholstery material and temporarily affixing the edges of the upholstery material around the free edges of the core, joining the core halves together to clamp the upholstery material in place around the periphery of the visor so formed while bonding the visor core halves permanently together to provide a compressive clamping force to the upholstery material. The method of the preferred embodiment of the invention pertaining to the visor recess includes the steps of cutting an opening through the visor upholstery material having a dimension slightly smaller than the dimensions of the visor recess and inserting the spring frame into the recess to compressibly hold the edges of the upholstery material in place.

Visor covering

A panel includes a mirror surrounded on three sides by a generally U-shaped light source for providing illumination of the mirror for use as a vanity mirror under low ambient light conditions. The panel, in one embodiment of the invention is an integral portion of a body of a visor or a panel which is slidably extended from a visor. The U-shaped light and mirror panel can be pivoted when in an extended position such that the light and mirror can be utilized while the visor is in a raised, stored position or in a lowered use position. The panel is, in one embodiment, coupled to an X-shaped bracket with the legs forming the bracket pivotally coupled to one another. One end of each leg is pivotally coupled to one of an anchoring member or the visor panel and the opposite end pivotally and slidably mounted to one of the anchoring member or the visor panel.

Vehicle visor lighting apparatus

A visor control includes a first member positioned in the body of the visor and engaging one side of a pivot rod also extending within the visor body for moving the visor between stored and use positions. An elastically deformable plate has one end secured to the first member and engages an opposite side of the pivot rod in an elastically deformed position. The rod includes a flat formed in the opposite side for engagement by the deformable plate to provide a torque for returning the visor to a predetermined position and for releasably holding the visor in such position. In one embodiment of the invention, the first member is also an elastically deformable plate which engages flats formed in the one side of the pivot rod. In yet another embodiment of the invention, collar shaped cam members surround the pivot rod and a compression spring urges the cam members together, one of which is anchored to the pivot rod and the other of which is rotationally anchored to the visor body but is free to slide on the visor rod. Each of the cam members includes interengaging inclined surfaces for urging the visor under the spring compression into a predetermined position and releasably hold the visor in such position.

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Holland, MI, United States of America

Carl W Flowerday