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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
May. 04, 1999
Trevor Harrison, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Erik C. Wilson, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Navistar International Transportation Corp., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A one-piece mounting bracket (,) for mounting an automatic transmission shift control in the cab of a truck has a top wall (,) and laterally spaced apart side walls (,) depending from the top wall and extending rearward into covering relation to laterally opposite sides of the shift control. A face plate (,) spans the side walls of the bracket in covering relation to the shift control, and a shift lever (,) for operating the shift control to shift the transmission extends from the shift control through an opening (,) at the face plate to provide a grip by which a driver of the vehicle can operate the shift control. The side walls are symmetric about an imaginary medial plane that perpendicularly bisects an imaginary plane occupied by the top wall. The side walls also have symmetric hole patterns (,) providing shift cable attachment features that are symmetric about the imaginary medial plane. The bracket may be used in either a right- or left-hand drive vehicle.