Land vehicles – Wheeled – Extensible
Patent
1986-10-23
1987-07-07
Love, John J.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Extensible
280650, 280 474, 297 59, 297DIG4, B62B 708
Patent
active
046782028
ABSTRACT:
A folding chair assembly for dual use as a wheelchair or a flight attendant's seat onboard a commercial passenger airplane. The folding chair assembly can be manipulated into any of the following modes: (1) fully retracted into a compact assembly that can be stowably secured by a plurality of catches against a vertical wall in the passenger compartment of an aircraft; (2) with the chair assembly still secured to the wall, the seat pan is pulled down against a seat return spring and is usable as a flight attendant's seat; and (3) the folded chair assembly is completely detached from the plurality of retaining catches and fully extended to function as a wheelchair that is usable down the aisles of commercial passenger aircraft.
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Jensen Deborah P.
Jensen Tom M.
Yoshimura Frederick T.
Donahue B. A.
Hartmann H. Gus
Love John J.
Mar Michael
The Boeing Company
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