Motor vehicle steering column

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1995-05-30

1996-06-18

Rice, Kenneth R.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

74493, B62D 118

Patent

active

055270689

ABSTRACT:
An adjustable motor vehicle steering column including a mast jacket moveable between a plurality of positions and a position control apparatus including a stationary bracket, a moveable bracket attached to the mast jacket parallel to the stationary bracket, a manually actuated primary clamp on the stationary bracket operative when closed to squeeze together the moveable and stationary brackets for frictional retention of the position of the mast jacket and when open to release the stationary and moveable brackets for adjustment of the position of the mast jacket, and a secondary clamp which automatically increases the clamping force on the stationary and moveable brackets in response to the onset of relative sliding movement between the stationary and moveable brackets in the closed position of the primary clamp. In a preferred embodiment, the secondary clamp includes a pair of wedge-shaped roller chambers in a jaw element of the primary clamp exposed to the moveable bracket and a roller in each of the roller chambers.

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