Resilient bumper for vehicles

Claim 1

AN IMPROVED BUMPER CONSTRUCTION COMPRISING AN ELONGATED RIGID FRAME PIECE HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS ADAPTED TO BE SUPPORTED AT ONE END OF AN AUTOMOBILE ABOVE GROUND LEVEL AND PRESENTING A RIGHT ANGULAR CENTRAL BODY PORTION HAVING AN OPENING THERETHROUGH, A PAIR OF SPRING ELEMENTS MOUNTED IN OPPOSED RELATIONSHIP TO ONE ANOTHER AGAINST OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE CENTRAL BODY PORTION IN END TO END RELATIONSHIP SUCH THAT THE AXIS OF CONTRACTION AND EXTENSION OF THE SPRING ELEMENTS EXTENDS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE FRAME PIECE, A PAIR OF BUMPER SIDE SECTIONS, RESPECTIVE SIDE SECTION SHACKLE MEMBERS PIVOTALLY ATTACHED TO THE FRAME PIECE, SAID SHACKLE MEMBERS EXTENDING ANGULARLY AWAY FROM THE FRAME PIECE AND BEING PIVOTALLY ATTACHED TO THE BUMPER SIDE SECTIONS TO YIELDABLY SUPPORT THE BUMPER SIDE SECTIONS IN SPACED RELATION TO THE FRAME PIECE, A BUMPER CENTRAL SECTION HAVING ITS OPPOSITE ENDS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO EACH OF THE SAID BUMPER SIDE SECTIONS AT POINTS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE SAID SHACKLE MEMBERS, SAID PIVOTED BUMPER SIDE SECTIONS FURTHER BEING CONSTRUCTED WITH RIGHT ANGULARLY DISPOSED EXTENSIONS FOR RECEIVING OUTER ENDS OF SAID SPRINGS AND HAVING OPENINGS FORMED THERETHROUGH, A HOLDING ELEMENT EXTENDING THROUGH EACH OF THE SPRINGS AND THE CENTRAL BODY PORTION AND THE RIGHT ANGULARLY DISPOSED EXTENSION, SAID HOLDING ELEMENT HAVING OPPOSITE EXTREMITIES THEREOF ANCHORED THROUGH THE RIGHT ANGULARLY DISPOSED EXTENSIONS OF THE BUMPER SIDE SECTIONS, TO SECURE THE SPRINGS TO RESPECTIVE SIDE SECTIONS WHEREBY THE SAID SIDE SECTIONS MAY BE DISPLACED AGAINST THE RESISTANCE OF THE SPRINGS THROUGH ONLY A LIMITED ARC OF TRAVEL.