Combination transmission gear selector valve for automotive vehicles
AssigneeAmerican Standard Inc.
InventorPaul E. Olson
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Abstract
A transmission gear selector valve for automotive vehicles combining a range valve, normally strapped on the side of a gear shift lever, and a splitter valve, normally mounted on the gear shift lever in place of the knob, into a single valve assembly, which provides a single valve assembly mountable on the gear shift lever in place of the knob.
Claims6
A transmission gear selector valve device for automotive vehicle transmissions having a gear shift lever having a free end by which the lever may be manually operated to a plurality of positions for selecting one of a plurality of forward speed ratios or reverse speed ratios of the transmission of said gear selector valve device comprising:
- (a) a housing including an upper portion and a base portion secured together to form a single housing unit removably carried on said free end to act as a knob for the gear shift lever;
- (b) a valve means reciprocably operable in said housing between a low range position, to adjust the transmission to a low gear ratio disposition, and a high range position, to adjust the transmission to a high gear ratio disposition;
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- (c) a manually operable lever connected to said valve element for effecting selective operation thereof to either its said low range or high range positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.