Brake, clutch and accelerator hand control for paraplegics

• US 3,192,794 A
• Filed: 06/08/1962
• Issued: 07/06/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pless Counts
• Original Assignee: Pless Counts
• Inventors: PLESS COUNTS
• Application Number:
  US04/201,086
• Time in Patent Office: 1,124 Days
• US Class Current: 74/481
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/12 Brake pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/14 Clutch pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18 Propelling the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/1819 Propulsion control with control means using analogue circuits, relays or mechanical links
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2022 Hand and foot
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20384 Levers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20906 Offset

Claims

1. A CONTROL DEVICE FOR THE BRAKE PEDAL MEANS AND ACCELERATOR PEDAL OF A VEHICLE HAVING A DASHBOARD DISPOSED ABOVE SAID PEDAL AND PEDAL MEANS, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED SHAFT, MEANS JOURNALING SAID SHAFT FROM THE DASHBOARD, AN ACCELERATOR HAND OPERATED CONTROL LEVER JOURNALED ON SAID SHAFT SUBSTANTIALLY IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, MEANS CONNECTING THE LEVER AND ACCELERATOR PEDAL FOR DEPRESSING THE ACCELERATOT PEDAL WHEN THE LEVER IS DEPRESSED, A BRAKE ARM RIGIDLY ATTACHED TO SAID SHAFT AND SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED WITH THE BRAKE PEDAL MEANS, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING THE BRAKE ARM AND THE BRAKE PEDAL MEANS, A BRAKE HAND OPERATED CONTROL LEVER RIGID WITH SAID SHAFT ADJACENT THE ACCELERATOR LEVER WHEREBY THE HAND OPERATED LEVERS MAY BE MANIPULATED IN MANEUVERING THE VEHICLE, SAID SHAFT JOURNALING MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF BRACKETS, BEARING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SHAFT, AND MOUNTING MEANS ADJUSTABLY SUPPORTING THE BEARING MEANS FROM THE BRACKETS FOR ENABLING THE SHAFT TO BE JOURNALED FROM THE BRACKETS WHEN THE BRACKETS ARE MISALIGNED.