Daimler-Benz Ag

Mercedes-Benz Aktiengesellschaft

Hans-Peter Jordan

Christian Grabner

Wilhelm Bauer

Wilhelm Klein

Siegfried Herzog

Max Bausch

Erich Ruhringer

Heinz Hoger

Christian Steinmetz

Jorg Koske

Henryk N/o/ Lscher

Rolf Kr/u/ Gener

Gerard N/u/ Ssle

A cover for a spare wheel arranged externally at the rear of a motor vehicle has a clamping strap which covers the entire tread of the tire. In its lateral edge regions, the clamping strap is drawn in towards the center of the wheel. A round plate covers the free side of the wheel. Over the peripheral edge region of the plate, the drawn-in edge region of the clamping strap engages. In order to make such a cover easy to mount for a single person and to permit it to be used simultaneously for different tire widths, there is provided an outer, annular region of the plate bent to extend towards the spare wheel. A support body can be inserted into a vehicle-side receptacle as far as a stop. The support body is attached to the center of the rear of the plate. The length of the support body is dimensioned such that, when tightening the clamping strap, the plate, acting so to speak as a disc spring, presses the support body against its stop.

Cover for a spare wheel

The invention relates to an exterior mirror for vehicles, with a mirror-housing which, in normal operation, is retained in a fixed location on the vehicle and which, in the event of a collision, can fold away, forwards or backwards, until it assumes at least an approximately flat position against the vehicle. Folding occurs about a pair of pivot-axes. A mirror-shell, carrying a reflector, is retained in the interior of the mirror-housing. An aerodynamically efficient fairing is provided on the leading side of the mirror-housing. In order to be able to design the fairing with a shape which is particularly aerodynamically efficient, namely with a shape which is particularly long in the direction in which the vehicle travels and which resembles a wedge, while nevertheless being able, on the other hand, to permit the mirror to fold away effectively and with little overhang, at least one separate pivot-axis is provided for the fairing of the mirror-housing. This pivot-axis is inclined, in side view, at a pronounced angle relative to the pivot-axes of the mirror-housing. The fairing otherwise merely bears against the mirror-housing in a manner permitting detachment. The fairing is spring-loaded towards the mirror-housing and a vibration-damping, resilient interlayer is provided in the contact zone. The pivot-axis is positioned parallel to an edge-rim of the fairing, in the region of the projecting fitting on the vehicle. That wall of the fairing, which is located opposite, is composed of a conventional resilient material.

Fairing which folds flat independantly of its mirror

The invention relates to a servo-controlled adjustable outside rear view mirror for vehicles, having a stationary mirror housing and a mirror shell which carries the reflector and is able to move therein. In the mirror housing there is provided an interchangeable drive unit for the vertical and horizontal adjustment of the reflector, said drive unit being affixed to the back of the mirror housing or of the mirror shell. The invention aims at providing a broad vibrationless bearing surface for the mirror shell. Furthermore, by means of a simple control switch the mirror shall be adjustable in the same manner about a geometrically defined horizontal and vertical axis. The invention also aims at providing a wedge-shaped convergent, aerodynamic mirror housing. For this purpose, the drive unit is coupled by means of a movable plate to the rear of the mirror shell which can turn on a vertical axis, but the swivel connection has torsional strength about the horizontal axis. At the same time, the swivel connection allows for length adjustment between the plate and the mirror shell. The intermediate plate and the mirror shell are separately suspended on gimbals at independent bearing points located on the horizontal swivel axis of the mirror shell. The drive unit is pushed as far as possible to the vehicle-side housing edge, and the bearing point of the mirror shell as close as possible to the external housing edge of the mirror housing.

Adjustable servo-controlled outside rear view mirror

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Schonaich, Germany

Hans-Peter Jordan