Patents by Inventor Benjamin P. Harder

Benjamin P. Harder has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4550988
    Abstract: A rear view mirror mounted on the side of a truck is equipped with an air deflector and fluid dispenser for clearing foreign material from the viewing surface of the mirror. The air deflector has a generally flat forwardly directed section joined to a curved middle section. A terminal section joined to the curved section has a lip forming a passage for collecting foreign material and fluids from the air directed toward the viewing surface. The fluid dispenser has an elongated tube provided with a plurality of fluid discharge orifices. The tube is mounted on the lip with a plurality of releasable clips. Fluid under pressure supplied to the tube is directed onto the one side edge of the mirror and carried across the mirror surface with a moving sheet of air to clear mirror surface of foreign materials, such as insects, dust, dirt, mud, snow, ice and rain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Inventors: Benjamin P. Harder, Willard J. Harder