Patent ID: 6457378
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: B62K,B62L,Y10T

Abstract:
A control lever equipment for a bar handle vehicle comprising a support shaft attached to a holder fixed to a handle bar, a control lever pivotally supported by the support shaft, and a grip allowance adjusting mechanism for widening and narrowing a grip allowance to be secured between the control lever and a grip of the handle bar;wherein the control lever is composed essentially of a lever piece and an operating piece which pivot coaxially on the support shaft independent of each other; the grip allowance adjusting mechanism comprising an adjusting pin attached to one of the lever piece and the operating piece pivotally on an axis parallel to an axis of the support shaft; a plurality of cam faces formed contiguously on a periphery of a shaft of the adjusting pin so as to locate the cam faces at different distances from the axis of the adjusting pin, respectively; and a cam abutting face formed on one of the operating piece and the lever piece; the cam abutting face being operative to be selectively urged into abutment with any one of the cam faces by pivoting the adjusting pin; a bearing for journaling the shaft of the adjusting pin, a resilient piece being interposed between the adjusting pin and the bearing, the resilient piece being disposed on one of the lever piece and the operating piece and being operative to engage the adjusting pin to bias the adjusting pin concentrically with respect to the axis thereof with respect to the one of the lever piece and the operating piece.