Gear shift lever handle construction
OwnerDonald Lee Agate SR., Diane Marie Agateinventors
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Abstract
A handle construction (10) for a gear shift lever (100) wherein the handle construction (10) is fabricated as a one piece contoured handle member (20) having a generally ovoidal configuration with certain portions missing from the top surface, the front surface, and the left side of the generally ovoidal configuration; wherein, those missing portions define a plurality of elongated arcuate recesses (21) through (24) that are dimensioned to receive a user's fingers, a first extension recess (30) that is dimensioned to receive a user's thumb and a second extension recess (32) to form a raised lip (37) that forms an abutment surface for the heel of a user's palm.
Claims13
A handle construction for a gear shift lever wherein the handle construction comprises:
- a contoured handle member having a generally ovoidal configuration with selected portions missing wherein the selected portions conform to the bottom surface of a user's hand including the fingers, thumb, and palm and further having means provided on the rear portion of the handle member for abutting against the heel of the user's palm.
A handle construction for a gear shift lever wherein the handle construction comprises
- a one piece contoured handle member having a generally ovoidal configuration with certain portions missing from the top surface, the front surface and the left side of the ovoidal configuration;
- wherein the missing portions define:
- a plurality of arcuate recesses that are dimensioned to receive a user's fingers;
- a first extension recess that is dimensioned to receive a user's thumb;
- and a second extension recess that cooperates with the first extension recess to create a raised lip that forms an abutment surface for the heel of a user's palm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.