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View Patent ↗A signaling device for defining a space between parked vehicles. The signaling device comprises a vehicle attachment component, an extendable component, and a warning component. The vehicle attachment component is configured to engage a vehicle window. The extendable component comprises rotatable and telescoping arms for defining the space between the vehicles when the rotatable and telescoping arms are extended. The warning component alerts others of the defined space. A method of using the signaling device to define a space between parked vehicles is also disclosed.
1. A signaling device for use with a vehicle, the signaling device comprising:
a vehicle attachment component comprising a bottom slot running between and transecting a first and second ends of the vehicle attachment component and a window engaging element positional within and lining the bottom slot for frictionally engaging a window of the vehicle;
an extendable component pivotally connected to the vehicle attachment component,
the extendable component comprising a first arm connected to the second end of the vehicle attachment component rotatable approximately 90 degrees horizontally outward away from the window and a second arm pivotally connected to the first arm, the second arm rotatable outward approximately 180 degrees from the first arm and comprising a plurality of telescoping sections comprising more than one nesting sections and a distal section that is larger in diameter or width than the more than one nesting sections, wherein the more than one nesting sections are proximal to the distal section when the second arm is extended and nest within the distal section when retracted; and
a warning component attached to the second arm of the extendable component.
2. The signaling device of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle attachment component comprises a swivel connector for connecting the vehicle component to the first arm.
3. The signaling device of claim 1 , wherein the first arm is a fixed length.
4. The signaling device of claim 1 , wherein the first arm and the second arm are pivotally connected via a second swivel connector.
5. The signaling device of claim 1 , wherein the warning component comprises at least one visual indicator.
6. The signaling device of claim 5 , wherein the at least one visual indicator is pictorial.
7. The signaling device of claim 5 , wherein the at least one visual indicator is reflective.
8. A method of defining a space between parked vehicles comprising the steps of:
installing a signaling device between a window and a window frame of a vehicle where a weather resistant element lining a bottom slot of a vehicle window attachment component of the signaling device frictionally engages a window of the vehicle to providing a watertight seal;
rotating a first arm of an extendable component of the signaling device approximately 90 degrees horizontally outward away from the window;
rotating a second arm of the extendable component approximately 180 degrees horizontally from the first arm; and
telescoping the second arm outward exposing more than one nesting sections housed within a distal section of the second arm.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the signaling device further comprises a warning component configured to alert a second vehicle not to park too close to the vehicle when the signaling assembly is deployed.