Windshield washer for automotive vehicles

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION OF A WINDSHIELD-WASHER DEVICE WITH A DEVICE FOR DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL, COMPRISING A HOUSING HAVING SIDE WALLS AND A REAR WALL, A SWINGING PLATE PIVOTALLY MOUNTED IN SAID HOUSING, A STOCK SWITCH SECURED TO SAID SWINGING PLATE AND ADAPTED TO OPERATE DIRECTIONAL SIGNALS UPON POSITION ING SAID STOCK SWITCH INTO RESPECTIVE OPERATIVE POSITIONS, A LEVER PIVOTALLY MOUNTED INTERMEDIATE ITS ENDS ON SAID SWINGING PLATE TO PERMIT A SWINGING MOVEMENT OF SAID LEVER IN A PLANE DISPOSED PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF SAID SWINGING PLATE, ONE END OF SAID LEVER OPERATING SAID STOCK SWITCH FROM ITS INOPERATIVE POSITION INTO ITS RESPECTIVE OPERATIVE POSITIONS UPON SWINGING SAID LEVER LATERALLY WITHIN SAID PLANE PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF SAID SWINGING PLATE INTO THE RESPECTIVE OPERATIVE POSITIONS FOR OPERATION OF THE DIRECTIONAL SIGNALS, A GUIDE BOLT SECURED TO AND PROJECTING FORWARDLY FROM SAID REAR WALL OF SAID HOUSING, AN INTERMEDIATE PLATE DISPOSED IN SAID HOUSING SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID REAR WALL OF SAID HOUSING AND HAVING A SLEEVE PROJECTING REARWARDLY FROM SAID INTERMEDIATE PLATE AND RECEIVING TELESCOPICALLY SAID GUIDE BOLT, RESILIENT MEANS TENDING TO URGE SAID INTERMEDIATE PLATE IN ITS FORWARDMOST POSITION IN SAID HOUSING, AN ARM HAVING ONE END PIVOTALLY SECURED TO SAID SWINGING PLATE AND THE OTHER END PIVOTALLY SECURED TO SAID INTERMEDIATE PLATE, SAID ARM PUSHING REARWARDLY SAID INTERMEDIATE PLATE PARALLEL TO ITSELF IN SAID HOUSING ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID GUIDE BOLT UPON PUSHING SAID LEVER AND, THEREBY, SAID SWINGING PLATE ABOUT THE PIVOT OF THE LATTER IN REARWARD DIRECTION, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH SAID INTERMEDIATE PLATE CAUSING PRESSURE TO A WINDOW WASHER, A WIPER-MOTOR SWITCH SECURED TO SAID INTERMEDIATE PLATE AND HAVING AN OPERATING BOLT PROJECTING FORWARDLY FROM SAID WIPER-MOTOR SWITCH FOR ABUTMENT WITH SAID SWINGING PLATE TO BE SET FROM A FORWARD INOPERATIVE POSITION INTO A PLURALITY OF OPERATIVE POSITIONS FOR DIFFERENT SPEEDS OF THE WINDOW WIPER, SAID WIPER-MOTOR SWITCH BEING RETAINED IN ITS OPERATIVE POSITION FOR HIGHEST SPEED OF SAID WINDOW WIPER UPON FURTHER REARWARD PUSHING OF SAID LEVER TOGETHER WITH SAID SWINGING PLATE FOR OPERATION OF THE WINDOW WASHER, SO THAT SAID SINGLE LEVER UPON MOVING THE LATTER LATERALLY RELATIVE TO SAID SWINGING PLATE IN EITHER DIRECTION THE RESPECTIVE DIRECTIONAL SIGNALS ARE OPERATED AND UPON MOVING SAID LEVER REARWARDLY ABOUT THE PIVOT OF AND JOINTLY WITH SAID SWINGING PLATE AT FIRST ONLY THE RESPECTIVE OPERATIVE POSITIONS OF SAID WIPER-MOTOR SWITCH ARE SET AND UPON FURTHER MOVEMENT OF SAID SAME LEVER REARWARDLY SAID WINDOW WASHER IS RENDERED OPERATIVE, WHILE THE OPERATIVE POSITION OF SAID WIPER-MOTOR SWITCH FOR GREATEST SPEED IS MAINTAINED.