NOS 1960\'s 1970\'s Vintage Nippon Outside Signal Flasher Mirrors. Made in Japan.
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NOS 1960\'s 1970\'s Vintage Nippon Outside Signal Flasher Mirrors. Made in Japan.:
$322.77
These are 2 new old stock, World Famous Nippon Technical Flasher Mirrors. Patent # 3266016 Date August 1964. Made in Japan. The first car mirrors with built in turn signals. Heavy, well made construction. Excellentquality chrome. Easy to install. Comes with instructions, mounting brackets, and gaskets. Please look up the Patent number forcomplete description of the design and functionality. A very rare mirror used on import cars in the 1960\'s and 1970\'s. Please see all 12 pictures. Will ship world wide. It is a principal object of this invention to combine the functions of a fender rear-view mirror and flashing turn-indicator. Thus, in place of the ordinary reflecting rear-view mirrors, a semi-opaque one-way glass mirror is used with a source of light installed behind the glass. Under normal conditions, this would function as an ordinary rear-view mirror. However, when the inner lamp flashes, the special one-way glass mirror lights up and glows in unison with the vehicles other turning signals. When lights flash, the whole mirror surface lights up giving warning to other vehicles, etc., thus combining effectively the functions of the ordinary rear-view mirror and the turn indicators. Due to the nature of semi-opaque mirrors, only a fraction of the inner light reaches the exterior. A relatively strong source of light is preferred for elfective functioning in the daytime or when the suns rays are especially bright as during clear, fair weather. Installation of overly-strong lamps, however, would rule out the possibility of utilizing the vehicles originally-installed flasher relay. On the other hand, increasing the transparency of the glass would decrease its effectiveness as -a rear-View mirror
(1) Light from the exterior is substantially completely shut out by back surface of the mirror while transparency ratio is increased;
(2) Installation of a reflector behind inner light source concentrates light rays on back surface of mirror, thus increasing the glowing capacity of the mirror.
In this way, this invention combines the functions of the rear-view mirror and flashing tum-indicator in such a way that is immediately visible to vehicles in the rear or alongside where such visibility is most urgently required. Not only has this inventon increased such visibility but it has done so with maximum simplicity, thus decreasing cost accordingly.
When functioning as a turn-indicator, light emitted by this invention covers the whole surface of the mirror warning other vehicles to the rear and alongside as to the drivers intentions. Excessively bright rays, however, may be cast toward driver due to the angle of the mirror while also blurring out rear image while lights flash on. Either way, this may cause great inconvenience to the driver.
A further characteristic of this invention resides in methods by which such shortcomings are nullified. In other words, cutting off of the rays which would normally cause glare in drivers eye when the lights are flashing; and maintaining mirrors original function of giving the driver a view of his rear while simultaneously diverting the rays toward the exterior of the vehicle where it is most required.
While this invention is used together with vehicles original turn-indicators, turning signals become immediately visible to vehicles and pedestrians running or walking parallel to vehicle. Thus, they are effectively cautioned. Hitherto used standard turn-indicators on front and rear end of the vehicles would be useless due to such viewing angles. In most instances, clear warning will also be given when the driver wishes to change lanes on the highway. Further, even when light is flashing, rearview mirror functions quite normally for viewing purposes by the driver.
For more information, please see patent # 3266016NOS 1960\'s 1970\'s Vintage Nippon Outside Signal Flasher Mirrors. Made in Japan.:
$322.77