Patent ID: 6766706
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
A control lever assembly for a vehicle transmission, the control lever assembly comprising:a guide plate having a slot extending therein and defining a pair of spaced apart slot walls, the guide plate also forming a recess located in a central portion of the slot, the recess having recess walls which are joined to the slot walls; a lever having a shaft and a knob on an end of the shaft, the shaft being rotatable about an axis of the shaft and pivotal about a pivot axis which is transverse to the axis of the shaft, at least a portion of the knob being received by the slot, the knob being engagable with the slot walls to maintain the knob in a first orientation, and the knob being rotatable into a second orientation when the knob is received by the recess, the recess wall being engagable with the knob when the knob is in said second orientation to prevent the knob from being removed from the recess unless the knob is rotated to said first orientation.