Swinging fire apparatus pump operator panel

Abstract

A control panel for the operator's control station of a fire fighting apparatus of the type including a body defining an outwardly opening side recess is provided. The control panel supports various gauges, switches and other operating controls and has a plurality of openings formed therein through which water inlet and outlet couplings as well as valve controlling operators project. An elongated upstanding support member is disposed adjacent and extends along a generally straight side marginal portion of the recess and is mounted from the body for guided limited lateral outward and inward shifting relative to the body along a path which generally parallels the direction in which the recess opens. The control panel includes a marginal edge portion corresponding to the side marginal portion of the recess and the panel marginal edge portion is hingedly supported from the support member for angular displacement relative thereto about an axis generally paralleling the support member. The limit of outward lateral shifting of the support member from the limit of inward shifting thereof is sufficient to outwardly displace the panel and the openings formed therein outwardly of the couplings and operators to thereby allow subsequent swinging of the panel from the closed position toward the open position thereof independent of interference between the couplings and operators with the portions of the panels defining the corresponding openings.