Patent ID: 6923088

Claim:
A device for mounting a pedal lever of a motor vehicle, the device comprising: a housing with a surface; a bearing element; and a separating wedge supported via a separating wedge support surface against a motor vehicle component, said separating wedge bringing about the shearing off of said bearing element upon the action of an external force caused by an accident due to a relative movement between said separating wedge and said bearing element by applying a shearing force, is accommodated between said surface of the said housing and said bearing element, wherein said housing has an abutment for contacting and slidingly movably guiding said separating wedge and said separating wedge is provided with two legs and said bearing element traverses two cheeks of said housing, said two cheeks of said housing being located at spaced locations from one another, the pedal lever being arranged approximately cenrally between said cheeks on said bearing element, and a distance is provided between the pedal lever and the respective associated cheek of said housing on both sides of the pedal lever so said two lees of said separating wedge provided at least in an area of said two cheeks, is in contact with said bearing element and is in contact with said abutment.