Motorist{40 s emergency warning apparatus

Claim 1

A motorist''s emergency warning apparatus adapted to be normally stored away but to be placed in a visibly perceptible information-providing display position when a motorist has car trouble on or alongside a road, comprising: collapsible support standard means and base means adapted to be moved between collapsed unassembled unsupported and non-displaying relationship and assembled, supported and displaying relationship, said support standard means and base means comprising frame means including a plurality of relatively movable frame means portions provided with engageable and disengageable connection means for connecting said frame means and said base means in said assembled, supported, and displaying relationship when desired, said frame means being provided with visibly perceptible display panel means carried thereacross and defining a display surface of substantial area positionable in and lying across the line of sight of an oncoming motorist and provided with informationbearing display material indicating an emergency condition of an associated motor vehicle, said frame means and said base means being provided with stabilizing means cooperable therewith to provide great lateral and anti-tipping stability to the entire frame means, base means, and display panel means when in assembled upright diplaying relationship, said stabilizing means comprising low-center-of-gravity weight means carried adjacent to the bottom of said base means in a position adapted to be immediately adjacent to an auxiliary supporting surface upon which the entire apparatus is adapted to be placed when in said assembled upright displaying relationship, said base means comprising a transversely directed hollow storage box normally adapted to store the complete frame means and display panel means therein in unassembled, collapsed, non displaying relationship.