The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-17
ILLUMINATION EXPERT
LAUNCHES new LENS

In an u~npretentlous little room In
Connersville. Ind, a device has been
perfected that solves perhaps the last
of the really basic automobile prob
lens Of today. that of the binding
headlight glare.
In that room, day after day. for the
past two years. Samuel F. Arbucklc,
sales engineer OF the United States Au-
tomotive corporation, could have been
found at work on this device. There
were days OF observation-disclosures
times weeks. And there were days that
brought more cheer.
Little did the Society Of Illuminating
Ia Engineers. that great authority on
illumination which drafted the recon-
mendations that gave this nation its
present uniform railroad headlamp law.
realize when It held up az the ideaI So
tuition Of automobile headlight glare the
tilted, movable reflector lamp. that this
inventive genius was nearing the goal
OF success with such a device.
But Arbuckle saw in his idea the real
solution to the problem and he set out
20 accomplish its development. His am
hition has seen its fulfillment In the
series So models of the Lexington
Motor company In The adoption as
standard equipment Of Arbuckle's vacu-
uIn controlled two-way. headlamps.
This United States Automotive cor
poration engineer has placed within
the hands OF the people a weapon to
combat an evil that takes an admit
teddy large toll each year In life and
suffering. Lexington's two-way lamps.
and those Of Cadillac-which embody
the same principle, although differing
neutrality-suspicious. a solution TO the
dangerous binding glare problems to
which the Society of Illuminating En-
Eineers pointed more than a year ago
as the ideal for which to strive.
The device invented by Arbuckle Is
semi-automatic. The movable reflec-
tors are operated by the vacuum ere
ated In the motor by the suction stroke
OF the pistons, This suction exhausts
the air from "A metal bellows connected
TO the reflectors, An instrument board
control, Il simple touch OF which will
raise OF defle\t the lights, has also
been provided.
The device complies with the spirit
OF every known antiglare law. Nothing
is left to the judgment of a driver as
to how far he shall defect the pro-
lected beams to come within the law.
Those positions are fixed by the de-
vice. If the lights through neglect,
are left in the upward position when
the car is parked at the curb. they are
automatically tilted down when the en-
CINE stops.
These lights mean safety to others on
the road, whether in vehicles or on
foot, They mean equal safety to drlv-
efs and occupants of the cars equipped
with the two-way lamps. because they
do not reduce the quantity but simply
control the direction of the light.
These lights have passed the drastic
New York state a~ntiglare law with a
mark Of 100 per cent. New Work, con-
coded to have the first scientific no.
glare law in the country outside Of
California, has shown the way to the
elimination OF the binding glare prob
lem, Arbuckle has provided the instru-
ment with which to realize the ideal.
1t is up to the people to reap the harv-
est from this efgineer's years of labor
and his gift of genius by insisting
upon a scientific lighting device test
and a uniform nation wide law.
The two-way lamps used on the cur
rent Lexington models are made by the
Indiana Lamp company, also Of Con-
nersville, but patent rights are con-
troiled by the United States Automo-
tive corporation.