Plural direction single lever operating device

• US 3,296,882 A
• Filed: 05/04/1964
• Issued: 01/10/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Claude Durand Roger
• Original Assignee: Claude Durand Roger
• Inventors: CLAUDE DURAND ROGER
• Application Number:
  US04/364,677
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• US Class Current: 74/471.00R
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 2009/04718 with cardan or gimbal type joint
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 2009/04744 Switches
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 2009/04748 Position sensor for rotary movement, e.g. potentiometer
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 2009/04774 with additional switches or sensors on the handle
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 9/04785 the controlling member being the operating part of a switch arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20012 Multiple controlled elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20201 Control moves in two planes

Claims

1. A PLURAL DIRECTION SINGLE LEVER OPERATING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING:

A CORE HAVING TWO PARTS WITH A HOLE THROUGH EACH OF SAID PARTS;

TWO CAP SHAPED SLIDES ENCLOSING SAID CORE AND ARRANGED IN THEIR NEUTRAL POSITION IN SUCH MANNER THAT THEIR LONGITUDINAL PLANES OF SYMMETRY ARE PERPENDICULAR TO EACH OTHER AND EACH OF SAID SLIDES HAVING A SLOT THEREIN;

LATERAL GUIDING RIBS LOCATED ON EACH OF SAID PARTS OF SAID CORE ALONG TWO HALF-CIRCLES PARALLEL TO SAID PLANE OF SYMMETRY OF SAID PART OF SAID CORE SPACED FROM EACH OTHER ON EACH OF SAID PARTS OF SAID CORE AND ADJACENT SAID SLIDES WITH WHICH THEY ARE COMPLEMENTARY AND IN CONTACT;

LATERAL CHAMFERS ON SAID SLIDES LOCATED ADJACENT TO AND SUPPORTING SAID GUIDING RIBS;

A SINGLE OPERATING LEVER PASSING THROUGH THE SLOTS IN EACH OF SAID SLIDES AND THROUGH THE HOLES IN EACH OF SAID PARTS OF SAID CORE WITH THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID LEVER PASSING THROUGH THE GEOMETRIC CENTER OF SAID SLIDES AND CORE;

AND MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING MOVEMENTS OF ROTATION OF EACH OF SAID SLIDES ABOUT ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SYMMETRY BY PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF SAID OPERATING LEVER ABOUT THE GEOMETRIC CENTER OF THE ASSEMBLY.