Patent ID: 6446301
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
A laterally movable wiper arm assembly for cleaning curved interior surfaces of automobile and truck windshields, comprising a generally vertically and axially extending sweepable wiper blade movable on a pair of curved tracks; one of said tracks extending horizontally at a top of the windshield and another of said tracks extending horizontally at a bottom of the windshield, said vertically extending wiper blade movable laterally therebetween, said wiper arm assembly having a rigid wiper arm support being telescoping with respect to its vertically extending axis, said telescoping rigid wiper arm support permitting said vertically extending wiper blade to tilt into respective corners at a bottom of the windshield to cover a larger proportion of the area thereat,wherein said wiper blade is supported with a resilient layer attached to a flexible substrate, which said flexible substrate is adjustably attached to said rigid arm support, said rigid arm support movably following the windshield contour.