Auxiliary automobile brake operator for actuation by front seat passenger

• US 3,943,795 A
• Filed: 04/14/1975
• Issued: 03/16/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Collete Love
• Original Assignee: Collete Love
• Inventors: Kenney, Frank T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, Samuel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shoemaker, F. D.
• Application Number:
  US05/567,502
• Time in Patent Office: 337 Days
• Field of Search: 74/562.5, 74/512, 74/560, 74/479, 74/480 R
• US Class Current: 74/562.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/06 Disposition of pedal
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/34 Double foot controls, e.g. for instruction vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20207 Multiple controlling elements for single controlled element
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20888 Pedals
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20906 Offset

Abstract

A floor-mounted bracket at the passenger'"'"'s side of the front seat rotatably supports a rigid linkage rod, which extends laterally over to the driver'"'"'s brake pedal. An auxiliary brake pedal is adjustably attached to this rod for rotating the rod in a direction to apply the vehicle brakes when the auxiliary foot pedal is depressed.

Claims

1. In an auxiliary brake operator for acutation from the passenger'"'"'s side of the front seat of an automotive vehicle which has brakes and a driver'"'"'s brake pedal unit for operating the brakes, said auxiliary operator having:

a bracket for attachment to the floor of the vehicle on the passenger'"'"'s side;

a rigid linkage rod rotatably supported by said bracket and extending from the bracket laterally over in front of the driver'"'"'s brake pedal unit and clamped to the driver'"'"'s brake pedal unit;

and an auxiliary brake pedal unit on the passenger'"'"'s side for rotating the linkage rod in a brake-applying direction when the auxiliary brake pedal is depressed;

the improvement wherein;

said bracket has an upwardly and forwardly inclined base for direct engagement with the inclined floorboard of the vehicle below the dashboard, said base having slots therein which are elongated longitudinally of the base for adjustment of the bracket position with respect to mounting bolts which extend down through said slots and into the inclined floorboard.

2. An auxiliary brake operator according to claim 1, wherein said bracket has an upstanding post which is inclined rearward and upward from said base and carries said rigid rod at its upper end.

3. An auxiliary brake operator according to claim 1, wherein said auxiliary pedal unit has a sleeve at its upper end which is slidable along said linkage rod to adjust the lateral position of the auxiliary pedal unit, and a set screw on said sleeve for selectively locking it to said linkage rod.