Patents by Inventor Merle F. Smith

Merle F. Smith 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: 4011443
    Abstract: An indicating safety light assembly for attachment to motorcycles and the like, being comprised of a safety light sub-assembly which has as components thereof distinctively shaped amber and red colored illumination transmitting cover members respectively affixed to either a segmentalized or a unimodular mounting bracket member in a back-to-back spaced or abutted complementary configuration, which safety light sub-assembly is either bolted to or threadably connected to the upper end of a vertically extending tubular mounting member which at the lower end thereof, is fixedly attached by means of a mounting clamp assembly to a frame member rearward of the seat of a motorcycle or the like so that the amber colored illumination transmitting cover member of the safety light sub-assembly faces forward and the red colored illumination transmitting cover member of the safety light sub-assembly faces rearward of the motorcycle or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Inventors: Merle F. Smith, Harold H. Wagman