Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Seats with body modifications
Patent
1984-09-04
1986-07-29
Lyddane, William E.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Seats with body modifications
297 14, 297 19, 297457, 5118, B60N 100
Patent
active
046028161
ABSTRACT:
A sling seat is defined by a flexible quadrilateral sheet panel which is defined by longitudinal side rails of substantially inelastic material connected by a crossband structure of elastic material extending between the side rails. One end of the flexible sheet panel is mounted on a vertical wall of the vehicle body compartment, preferably by a reel for winding the flexible sheet panel to a stored position. The other end of the flexible sheet panel carries hooks which engage a receptacle in a vehicle floor so that the sheet material is erected in a taut condition extending angularly between the floor and the vertical wall. The crossband structure is preferably divided into an upper crossband structure and a lower crossband structure with a space therebetween so that the seating of an occupant against the flexible sheet panel causes the upper crossband structure to yield to a more vertical seat back defining position and the lower crossband structure to yield to a more horizontal seat bottom defining position. The sling may be alternatively deployed at a horizontal orientation to define a bed or a cargo concealment panel by connecting the hooks at the end of the flexible sheet material with a receptacle provided in the opposite vertical wall of the occupant compartment.
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Cranmer Laurie K.
General Motors Corporation
Leahy Charles E.
Lyddane William E.
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