Tournament style wiper blade

[Lasse...@aol.com]

Hi All,

 

Is a tournament [style] wiper blade in some countries outside the US called something else in the States?

 

Julie Foster

 

[Benjamin Barrett]

Searching for tournament and "wiper blade" on the US Patent site, 27 hits are found.

I'm not sure if that answers your question or not, though. Is this somehow related to Japanese<>English translation?

Benjamin Barrett

Seattle, WA

[Steven P. Venti]

Lasse...@aol.com wrote:
> Is a tournament [style] wiper blade in some countries outside the US
> called something else in the States?

I'd never heard the term "tournament [style] wiper blade" before, it's
not mentioned in the en.wiki article on windshield wipers, and it
actually took a bit of time to track down what it meant.

So, I now I'm curious to know just where this expression does have
currency. <g>

In response to your question, "tournament" doesn't really refer to a
type of blade. It refers to how the blade is mounted in the wiper arm,
and since this has been the industry standard since the '80s, most
people in the US would probably just call it a "standard windshield
wiper."
In cases where a distinction must be made between historical types of
wipers, however, it would likely be referred to as a whippletree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippletree_(mechanism)#Windscreen_.28windshield.29_wipers

The above is mostly speculation on my part, but I hope it helps.

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[Lasse...@aol.com]

None of those are by American translators are they? So I'm suspicious it's called something else here (US). Yes, this is for a J>E translation.

 

In a message dated 3/23/2011 2:22:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gog...@ix.netcom.com writes:

Searching for tournament and "wiper blade" on the US Patent site, 27 hits are found.

I'm not sure if that answers your question or not, though. Is this somehow related to Japanese<>English translation?

Benjamin Barrett

Seattle, WA

On Mar 23, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Lasse...@aol.com wrote:

Hi All,

 

Is a tournament [style] wiper blade in some countries outside the US called something else in the States?

 

Julie Foster

 

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[Lasse...@aol.com]

Thank you very much for the link, and taking the time to do all that. There are some patents by US inventors that use a "whiffletree" structure but never a "tournament" structure. I think one Japanese company (Asmo) coined that style of wiper blade, or not.

 

In a message dated 3/23/2011 2:33:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, spv...@bhk-limited.com writes:

Lasse...@aol.com wrote:
> Is a tournament [style] wiper blade in some countries outside the  US
> called something else in the States?

I'd never heard the term "tournament [style] wiper blade" before, it's
not mentioned in the en.wiki article on windshield wipers, and it
actually took a bit of time to track down what it meant.

So, I now I'm curious to know just where this expression does have
currency. <g>

In response to your question, "tournament" doesn't really refer to a
type of blade. It refers to how the blade is mounted in the wiper arm,
and since this has been the industry standard since the '80s, most
people in the US would probably just call it a "standard windshield
wiper."
In cases where a distinction must be made between historical types of
wipers, however, it would likely be referred to as a whippletree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippletree_(mechanism)#Windscreen_.28windshield.29_wipers

The above is mostly speculation on my part, but I hope it helps.

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   Steve Venti
   spv...@bhk-limited.com

   Oh, you know all the words, and you sung all the notes,
   But you never quite learned the song, she sang.
                                              --Mike Heron
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[Adam Rice]

> Thank you very much for the link, and taking the time to do all that. There are some patents by US inventors that use a "whiffletree" structure but never a "tournament" structure. I think one Japanese company (Asmo) coined that style of wiper blade, or not.

I just saw an ad for windshield wipers that contrasted "conventional" (whippletree) and "beam" windshield wiper blades.

Adam Rice :: Austin TX USA :: adam...@8stars.org :: http://8stars.org

[Lasse...@aol.com]

Thanks Adam. I used both terms. I did eventually find one US inventor in the USPTO database that used "tournament" but the rest used "whippletree."

 

In a message dated 3/29/2011 9:14:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, adam...@8stars.org writes:

> Thank you very much for the link, and taking the time to do all that. There are some patents by US inventors that use a "whiffletree" structure but never a "tournament" structure. I think one Japanese company (Asmo) coined that style of wiper blade, or not. The wipers on my old '91 mercedes kind of have that "hierarchy" structure.

 

Julie Foster

I just saw an ad for windshield wipers that contrasted "conventional" (whippletree) and "beam" windshield wiper blades.

Adam Rice :: Austin TX USA :: adam...@8stars.org :: http://8stars.org