Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Dashboards
Patent
1992-10-02
1993-11-09
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Dashboards
296 72, 180 90, 248 271, 361679, B60K 3702
Patent
active
052596559
ABSTRACT:
The invention disclosed here is a dashboard accessory item in the form of an add-on housing that enables the repositioning of certain instrument panels closer to the driver, thereby making the instruments on such panels more accessible. In use, the instrument panels are first detached from a stock dashboard, and the housing is mounted to the dashboard over the location where the panels were originally located. The add-on housing projects forwardly of the dashboard, and the panels are remounted to its forward or frontal face. Such face angles toward the driver as it extends along the dashboard from the steering wheel toward the right-hand side of the cab. This repositions the panels much closer to the driver than they were when originally mounted to the stock dashboard.
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Bellamy Glenn D.
Kaser Bruce A.
Pedder Dennis H.
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