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Other common names for it include "clear sight", "spin window", "Kent Screen" and "rotating windshield wiper". Clear view screens were patented in 1917 by Samuel Augustine de Normanville and Leslie Harcourt Kent as a stand-alone pillar-mounted screen, [ 1 ] with later patents for telescope and optics covers, followed by the more familiar ships ...
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A windscreen wiper (Commonwealth English) or windshield wiper (American English) is a device used to remove rain, snow, ice, washer fluid, water, or other debris from a vehicle's front window. Almost all motor vehicles , including cars , trucks , buses , train locomotives , and watercraft with a cabin —and some aircraft —are equipped with ...
Windscreen wiper → – Fairly common name that allows to avoid using names specific to a variety of English. Summer talk 14:10, 25 April 2023 (UTC) Oppose - "wiper blade" does not encompass the whole subject of this article, it is just one component of the complete windscreen wiper system. -- DeFacto .
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Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American mechanical engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964, after a few previous designs by other ...
1959: Vacuum Rear Windshield Systems. 1971: Wet Wiper Arm. 1979: Tubular Blades. Used for the first time by Original Equipment manufacturers (introduced to the Aftermarket in 1984). 1980: Plastic-Framed Blade. 1981: Electric Rear Wiper System. 1993: Series 2000 Blades. TRICO’s latest aerodynamic Original Equipment wiper blade.