Device for facilitating gear changing in gear boxes

Claim 1

An arrangement for facilitating engaging a reverse gear not having synchronizing means in a gearbox for motor vehicles, said gearbox containing, in addition to said reverse gear, at least one forward gear provided with a synchronizing means, said gears being manually engageable and disengageable by means of a selector actuating means comprising a gear change lever operating at least one selector actuator rod and also comprising at least one selector actuator coacting with said selector actuator rod, whereby a gear changing movement for engaging a gear comprises a selection step and an engagement step, the selection step involving a movement in a first plane for the selector actuating means, and the engagement step involving a movement in a second plane for the selector actuating means, a gripping means connected to the selector actuating means being arranged to obtain force-transmitting connection with a forward gear selector during a part of the selector step for the changing movement into reverse gear, and for giving said forward gear selector a shifting movement so that a synchronizer incorporated in the synchronizing means of the forward gear is engaged, before the engagement step for the reverse gear is actuated characterized in that the force-transmitting connection between the gripping means and said forward gear selector is sprung in the shifting direction of said forward gear selector.