Guard for control member

• US 3,142,227 A
• Filed: 03/15/1963
• Issued: 07/28/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eugene L. Stringer
• Original Assignee: Eugene L. Stringer
• Inventors: Stringer, Eugene L.
• Application Number:
  US04/265,488
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• US Class Current: 89/136
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/07 press-button actuated, e.g. with thumb rest
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2009/066 having switches mounted on a control handle, e.g. gear shift lever

Claims

1. THE COMBINATION OF, A HAND GRIP MOUNTABLE ON THE UPPER END OF AN AIRCRAFT CONTROL LEVER AND SHAPED TO BE GRASPED IN A PREDETERMINED MANNER WITH THE PILOT'"'"''"'"'S THUMB OVERLYING A PORTION OF SAID GRIP, A FIRING BUTTON POSITIONED ON SAID GRIP BESIDE THE NORMAL POSITION OF THE THUMB, SAID BUTTON BEING MOVABLE TOWARD THE GRIP INTO A FIRING POSITION AND AWAY FROM THE GRIP INTO AN INACTIVE POSITION, MEANS URGING SAID BUTTON YIELDABLY TOWARD SAID INACTIVE POSITION, A GUARD INCLUDING A WALL NORMALLY OVERLYING SAID BUTTON IN SAID INACTIVE POSITION TO PREVENT UNINTENTIONAL MOVEMENT THEREOF AND A SKIRT DEPENDING FROM SAID WALL AND PARTIALLY SURROUNDING SAID BUTTON, SAID SKIRT BEING FORMED WITH AN OPENING ON THE SIDE OF THE BUTTON ADJACENT SAID NORMAL THUMB POSITION AND SIZED TO PASS FREELY OVER THE BUTTON, AND A HINGE BETWEEN SAID GUARD AND GRIP SPACED FROM SAID BUTTON AND PIVOTING THE GUARD ON THE GRIP FOR SWINGING LATERALLY AWAY FROM SAID NORMAL THUMB POSITION AND THE BUTTON INTO AN OUT-OF-THE WAY POSITION ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUTTON, BOTH THE NORMAL POSITION OF THE GUARD AND SAID OUT-OF-THE-WAY POSITION BEING WITHIN THE RANGE OF INDEPENDENT MOBILITY OF THE PILOT'"'"''"'"'S THUMB.