Patent ID: 6337623
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: B60Q

Abstract:
In combination:a school bus presenting a front side, a back side, a driver's side, a side opposite the driver's side, a top and a bottom; a conventional warning display mounted on the driver's side of said school bus; a supplementary warning display mounted on the top of said school bus, said supplementary warning display comprising: an elongate base mounted to the top of said bus; and an extendable member presenting a first end connected to said base and an opposed second end, said extendable member being shiftable between a retracted position, wherein said second end is adjacent said base, and an extended position wherein said second end is shifted away from said base and is thereby viewable by drivers of vehicles in view of any of the sides of said bus, said extendable member further presenting a back side lying adjacent to said base when said extendable member is in said retracted position, a front side opposed to said back side, a left side adjacent said first end, and a right side adjacent said second end, said right side farther presenting a major planar surface oriented perpendicularly to said base when said member is in said retracted position and parallel to said base when said member is in said extended position and including a light mounted thereto, said light being visible from any of said school bus sides when said member is in said extended position.