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US 4,364,283 AGranted
Throttle control
OwnerGeorge L. Ricardoinventor
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Abstract
A throttle control for use with a return-biased throttle system in a motorcycle or similar vehicle, which includes a cam lever fitted with a cam body having a slidably mounted, spring-loaded internal plunger, which cam body is mounted in the motorcycle throttle housing with one end of the plunger in close proximity to the throttle cable drum and designed to bias against the cable drum and maintain the cable drum and throttle grip in fixed position upon manipulation of the cam lever.
Claims10
A throttle control for motorcycles and similar vehicles having a cable drum comprising:
- (a) a generally cylindrically-shaped cam lever body, an aperture and a counter-bore extending through the longitudinal center of said cam lever body, and a slot in one end of said cam lever body, said slot defining a pair of oppositely disposed flanges;
- (b) bias means fitted in said counter-bore of said cam lever body and plunger means cooperating with said bias means and extending through said aperture and said counter-bore of said cam lever body, with one end of said plunger means projecting from said aperture through said counter-bore into said slot and the opposite end of said plunger means projecting from said cam lever body into selective contact with the cable drum;
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- (c) a cam lever having a cam lever base, said cam lever base in registration with said slot and pivotally carried by said flanges of said cam lever body for selectively effecting contact between said cam lever base and the end of said plunger means projecting into said slot, and displacing said plunger means in said aperture in said cam lever body and selectively against the cable drum responsive to manipulation of said cam lever from a position substantially transverse to said cam lever body to a position in alignment with said cam lever body.
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