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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1980
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lyle E York, Peoria, IL (US);
Assignee:
Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ; B60K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
180 78 ; 74493 ; 280775 ;
Abstract
An improved adjustable control console for a vehicle or the like of the type including a base (16) for attachment to a vehicle (12), a head (18), rigid mounting links (30,38) pivotally interconnecting the base and the head in a manner like that of a parallelogram linkage (16,18,28,33,34,38,40,42) to allow fore and aft movement of the console, at least one control element (22) movably mounted on the console, a rigid control link (50) connected to the control element and extending therefrom towards the base and including the improvement wherein the links are selectively simultaneously extensible to allow adjustment of the spacing between the head and the base.