Machine element or mechanism – Control lever and linkage systems – Hand operated
Patent
1992-01-14
1992-12-08
Herrimann, Allan D.
Machine element or mechanism
Control lever and linkage systems
Hand operated
74527, 74535, B62D 118, G05G 506
Patent
active
051687682
ABSTRACT:
A tilt steering wheel assembly includes a bracket member which supports an upper part of a steering column for pivotal movement about a pivot axis. A sector member has a set of adjustment teeth on one side and a pair of spaced apart detent recesses on the other side. A manually operable pawl member pivots with the bracket member, is slidable towards and away from the sector member has a teeth which are engageable and disengageable with the sector member teeth to releasably hold the bracket member and steering column upper part in a plurality of fine adjustment positions. A manually operable rod is movable towards and away from the sector member and is engageable and disengageable with the detent recesses to allow the sector member's, pawl, bracket member and steering column upper part to pivot together as a unit to a limit position and back to the particular position they occupied just before they were moved to the limit position.
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Deere & Company
Herrimann Allan D.
Laub David W.
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