Signals and indicators – Vehicle – Transmission indicator
Patent
1988-09-02
1989-06-13
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Signals and indicators
Vehicle
Transmission indicator
116DIG20, 116DIG21, G01D 504, B60Q 1100
Patent
active
048381977
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle steering column control cable mounting clip for an automatic transmission indicator dial system permitting the indicator pointer to be readily aligned with the dial indicia. The system includes a curvilinear looped flexible plastic tubular conduit having one end molded to the indicator housing and its other end molded to an adjustment slide selectively movable on a tongue portion of the clip by means of an adjustment screw interconnecting the slide and the clip. A flexible cable is slidable within the shielding conduit having one unshielded end connected to a pointer carrier and its other unshielded end fixed to a column rotatable shift tube actuator arm extending through an aperture in the column outer jacket. The clip has a pair of spring legs adapted for snap-in reception into the column jacket aperture and includes an integrally hinged lock-bar operative for positively capturing the clip in the aperture. Rotation of the column shift lever exerts a pull on the cable in one direction against a coil spring biasing the carrier in the opposite direction. By turning the adjustment screw the curvilinear shape of the conduit is altered relative to the inner cable modifying the spring tensioned condition of the cable thereby causing incremental aligning movement of the pointer relative to a selected dial indicia.
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Barthel Edward P.
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Hohenshell Jeffrey J.
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