Locks – Special application – For automotive vehicles
Patent
1995-05-22
1996-09-03
Boucher, Darnell M.
Locks
Special application
For automotive vehicles
70193, 70248, 74477, 74475, B60R 2506, E05B 6512
Patent
active
055512666
ABSTRACT:
A floor mounted manually operable shifter assembly for use with a vehicle manual transmission having a gear shifter selectively pivotal to a plurality of positions about longitudinal and transverse axes. The gear shifter assembly base has a pivotally mounted bellcrank lever, including an upstanding first arm and a rearwardly extending dish-shaped second arm, defining an upwardly concave semi-spherical raceway formed with a reverse gear position notch. An end fitting, pivoted on the shifter lower end, is adapted to apply a clockwise pivoting force on the raceway during the shifter's rearward travel which force overrides an interlock cable core counter-clockwise biasing force on the bellcrank lever. During the end fitting's forward travel on the raceway the cable core biases the raceway into counterclockwise sliding contact with the end fitting. Upon the fitting being captured in the reverse gear notch, the bellcrank is at its forward limit position wherein rotation of an ignition lock cylinder to its key-release Lock mode results in the cable core locking the bellcrank lever, whereby the shifter end fitting is held in the reverse gear notch allowing the vehicle to be driven only in reverse gear.
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Boucher Darnell M.
Chrysler Corporation
Pasternak Thomas G.
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