Claims
- 1. A sun visor assembly to be secured to a headliner having a selectively sized through hole comprising
- a grommet including a hollow head having a recessed opening defining a peripheral wall surface at the top and a plurality of fingers extending from the bottom of the head, each having a latching portion,
- a plurality of keys projecting inwardly from said wall surface and spaced inwardly from the top of said head
- said hollow head including a cylindrical axial pocket coaxial with and opening into said recessed opening,
- pin means including
- a cap for closing the top opening of said grommet,
- a disc member including a corresponding plurality of keyways selectively configured and located to match with said keys,
- post means on one side of said disc member for coaxially connecting said cap and said disc member,
- a cylindrical pin extending axially from the other side of said disc member and having a plurality of annular recesses defined therearound for receiving the latching portion of said fingers when said fingers are in contact therewith resulting in the fingers being urged outwardly to clamp the headliner between said hollow head and said fingers or to provide sufficient hold force between the said fingers and annular recess of the cylindrical pin to facilitate the shipping and handling of said sun visor assembly as one unit, and
- thermal plastic cylindrical spring means located within said pocket between said disc member and said hollow head and around said cylindrical pin,
- the height of said cylindrical spring means being selected so that said spring means will be compressively located between said disc member and a portion of said hollow head when said disc is displaced past said keys and rotated therebeneath to provide sufficient resistance to rotation as required in the typical sun visor assembly operation,
- said keys being selectively located to prevent the release of said pin means throughout the normal displacement range of the said pin means,
- means for inhibiting the rotation of said spring means relative to said grommet, and
- a sun visor rod secured to said pin means.
- 2. A sun visor assembly according to claim 1, wherein said inhibiting means comprises a series of axial grooves on said spring means and a series of axial grooves on said pocket.
- 3. A sun visor assembly according to claim 2, said keys further comprising means for preventing the insertion of said pin means into said grommet except at a selected orientation relative thereto.
- 4. A sun visor assembly according to claim 1, wherein said cylindrical pin has an annular surface engaging said compressed spring, said annular surface being tapered outwardly towards the top of said grommet.
- 5. A sun visor assembly to be secured to a headliner having a selectively sized through hole comprising
- a grommet including a hollow head having a recessed opening defining a peripheral wall surface at the top and a plurality of fingers extending from the bottom of the head, each having a latching portion,
- said hollow head including a cylindrical axial pocket coaxial with and opening into said recessed opening,
- thermal plastic cylindrical spring means located within said pocket,
- pin means including
- means for engaging the top surface of said spring means,
- a cylindrical pin extending axially from said engaging means and having an annular recess defined therearound for receiving the latching portion of said fingers when said fingers are in contact therewith resulting in the fingers being urged outwardly to clamp the headliner between said hollow head and said fingers,
- means for inhibiting the rotation of said spring means relative to said grommet,
- the height of said cylindrical spring means being selected so that said spring means will be compressively located within said pocket when said fingers are located within said annular recess to provide resistance to rotation, and
- a sun visor rod secured to said pin means.
- 6. A sun visor assembly according to claim 5, wherein said inhibiting means comprises a series of axial grooves on said spring means and a series of axial grooves on said pocket.
- 7. A sun visor assembly according to claim 5, wherein an annular surface of said cylindrical pin engaging said compressed spring is tapered outwardly towards the top of said grommet.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/838,585, filed Feb. 18, 1992, now abandoned.
US Referenced Citations (3)
Continuation in Parts (1)
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