Patent ID: 6631652
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: E02F,G05G,Y10T

Abstract:
A monolever operation apparatus for a working vehicle including a stationary arm rest provided at a top surface of a console placed at least at any one of left and right sides of an operator's seat, and a monolever placed in front of and independent of said arm rest and rotatively operated in a fore-and-aft direction and a left and right direction respectively to perform switching of forward and reverse traveling and a steering operation, respectively, said arm rest and console having an outer side, and an inner side, opposite to and adjacent to the operator's seat respectively, in relation to a longitudinal centerline of said arm rest and console, a front side facing toward the front of the vehicle, and a top surface intermediate said inner side and outer side and facing upwardly,wherein an axis of the first rotary shaft for rotating said monolever in the left and right direction passes through the vicinity of a fulcrum of operation below an operator's elbow placed on said arm rest, wherein the top surface of said arm rest is inclined from the vicinity of the position, at which the operator's elbow is placed, toward the front, and said inclined top surface includes the axis of said first rotary shaft, and wherein when operated in the left and right direction, said monolever is allowed to be operated with a distance from said fulcrum of operation to a grip of said monolever being almost constant.