Passenger seat having yielding band structure

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1990-05-14

1991-10-08

Dorner, Kenneth J.

Chairs and seats

Crash seat

Bottom and back movable as unit in response to force

297452, B60R 2100

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050548450

ABSTRACT:
In a passenger seat for people movers such as trains, buses, ships and airplanes wherein a backrest with a circumferential frame extends upwardly from the seat's seating structure and has a back support mounted thereon, the back support has an opening formed therein just above the seating structure at about knee level for a passenger seated behind and a band structure adapted to yield to a predetermined limit when subjected to a knee impact by a passenger thrown forward onto the backrest ahead extends between the side members of the frame so as to permit forward movement of the knees into the opening in the backrest.

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Page 18 Western Aviation, May 1957.

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