Signals and indicators – Bells – Gong type
Patent
1975-12-10
1976-10-12
Swisher, S. Clement
Signals and indicators
Bells
Gong type
116DIG20, G09F 900
Patent
active
039850951
ABSTRACT:
A gear shift indicator for an automatic gear change in a motor vehicle comprising a gear lever pivotally mounted within a housing for movement in and along an elongated slot in the surface portion of said housing and into a number of predetermined positions, said surface portion having a window adjacent said slot, through which window is visible one of a series of legible characters carried on a movable indicator member located within said housing adjacent said surface portion, each legible character corresponding to a respective one of said predetermined positions, there being a movable member coupled between said gear lever and said movable indicator member in a movement-increasing arrangement that has a ratio of movement between the characters on the movable indicator member and the gear lever of more than 1 to 1, the spacing of the characters on said indicator member being such that, when the gear lever is in each of said predetermined positions, the corresponding character is visible through said window. With such a gear selector it is possible to obtain a relatively wide spacing between adjacent characters even though the corresponding movement of the gear lever is small.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2303049 (1942-11-01), Ingalls
patent: 2434470 (1948-01-01), Rhodes
patent: 2980055 (1961-04-01), Burns
patent: 3896759 (1975-07-01), Ogura
Corr Denis E.
General Motors Corporation
Moran John P.
Swisher S. Clement
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