Headlight Mechanism (Patent No: 187272)

Inventor: Bawtinheimer, Harvey Elbert

Location: Red Deer

Comments: see Mingling Memories; biographical information; b 1880 Ontario; 1890 Calgary; 1891 Red Deer; Springvale; logging; 1910/11 opened Alberta Garage Co; m Alice Kate Davis, 1912; 1919 moved to Victoria; returned; 1939 built new garage "natural inclination towards things mechanical"; photos P163(426) RDA

Description: Harvey E. Bawtinheimer, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, 5th November, 1918; 6 years. Filed 3rd August, 1917. Receipt No. 282,855.

Claim.- In an electric switch, a switch plate having an offset member and a shoulder, a pair of terminal poles in the plate, a pair of levers pivoted on the plate and adapted to be connected respectively for grounding and with a magneto, and a hand lever having said levers fulcrumed thereto and working on the offset member for engaging the shoulder and to limit the movement of said levers with respect to the terminal poles.