Patent GB-1471515-A (GB)
Title: Transmission neutraliser
IPC: B60K23/00
Filed: 1975-09-24
Abstract: 1471515 Change speed control CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO 24 Sept 1975 [4 Feb 1975] 39163/75 Heading F2D The transmission control of a dump vehicle is prevented from inadvertently selecting or establishing selected reverse to the vehicle wheels when the power control of the dump body lift is set to move the body, the transmission being instead set to neutral. A hoist valve 137, controlling supply of pressure liquid to one or other side of a body-moving ram 17, has four positions, viz., power raise; hold, by hydraulic lock; float, i.e. release of hold and all pressure to permit the body to fall under gravity; and power down. The hold and float settings have no effect on transmission selection, but the power raise and down close parallelled switches 141, 142 respectively, which energize a relay 149 from a line 37 rendered live by selection of reverse, the relay then opening normally close contacts 150, leading from the line 37, through a line 70, to reverse-selecting contacts R of three decks 28d, 28e, 28f of a six-deck selectorfollower switch 28, and closing contacts 148, leading from the line 37, through diodes 147 and a line 146, to neutral contacts N on the switch decks. Once power operation of the dump body has been selected, the reverse inhibition is not removed by shifting the dump valve control, even to hold or float settings, since the relay contacts 148 provide hold-on energization for the relay winding 149, and reverse inhibition is cleared for normal operation only by movement of a manual selector lever 26 out of reverse setting into neutral which breaks the power supply to the line 37, thereby de-energizing the relay 149, which re-connects the line 37 to the line 70, permitting normal use of the shift lever 26. Ratio selection.-Seven forward ratios, neutral and one reverse are selected at a quadrant 30 by a manual shift lever 26 which, through a gear drive 27, turns a three-deck switch 25, which selectively connects a positive supply terminal 45 to a group 29 of ratio-establishing lines, the deck 25c energizing lines 37, 46, 58 and 59 for reverse R, neutral N, and first and second ratios 1, 2; deck 25b energizing lines 60 ... 63 for ratios three to six; and 25c for ratio seven. Contacts 42, 43 on the deck 25a are bridged by its moving contacts 39 in N to complete an engine-start circuit 40, 41, whilst contacts 67, 68 light a back-up light 35 and energize a warning 36 in reverse. The selector lead group 29 produces ratio shift by selectively pulse-energizing upshift and downshift valve solenoids 23, 24, which deliver incremented volumes of hydraulic liquid to move a shift piston 20 in successive steps corresponding to the ratios, the shift piston 20 also reacting through a feed-back mechanism 31 to turn the six deck selector-follower switch 28 through which the ratio-selector lead group 29, comprising ratio leads 37 ... 64, is connected to the shift solenoids 23, 24, three decks 28a, 28b, 28c having upshift contacts 110, 111, 112 leading to the upshift valve-solenoid 23, whilst the remaining three decks 28d, 28e, 28f have downshift contacts 113, 114, 115, leading to the downshift valve solenoid 24. This feed-back switches off the solenoid valves to prevent further delivery of fluid to the shift piston.