Windscreen washing devices

Claim 1

A windscreen washing device comprising a. a housing; b. pump means operatively mounted in said housing and having an intake means from a source of washing fluid and a discharge means for conveying the washing fluid to a windscreen; c. operating means for said pump means slidably mounted in said housing for reciprocable operational movement relative to said pump means; d. switch means for a windscreen wiper motor carried by said housing and including a switch member rotatably mounted in the housing transversely of the reciprocable path of movement of the operating means; e. first means carried by said switch member and engaged by the operating means for indexing the switch member to a position for actuating the wiper motor upon a movement of the operating means from a normal position to a first operating position; f. said operating means being movable from said first position to a second operating position in which it operates the pump means to eject washing fluid onto the windscreen without operatively engaging the switch member so as to turn off the wiper motor; g. means for automatically returning said operating means from said second position to its normal position without operatively engaging the switch member so as to turn off the wiper motor; h. second means carried by the switch member and engaged by the operating means for indexing the switch member to an open position for turning off the wiper motor upon movement of the operating means from its normal position to said first position when the motor is operating; and, i. means carried by the switch member and the operating means for indexing the switch member to effect a continuing operation of the pump motor when the operating means is moved from its normal position to its second position for the purpose of actuating the pump means when the wiper motor is in operation.