Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Seats with body modifications
Patent
1993-04-02
1994-12-13
Mitchell, David M.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Seats with body modifications
2485031, 248430, B60N 210
Patent
active
053723988
ABSTRACT:
An easily removable vehicle seat is provided for use with a vehicle including a floor having an upwardly facing surface. The floor includes front and rear wells extending below the upwardly facing surface and anchor members extending across the wells. The vehicle seat includes a rigid support structure having a downwardly facing surface for engaging the anchor members of the vehicle floor. A cushioned seat structure is provided on the rigid support structure. The vehicle seat also includes hook members mounted on the rigid support structure for movement between (1) an operative position extending below the downwardly facing surface so as to enter the wells and engage in hooked relationship with the anchor members and (2) an inoperative position disposed above the operative position thereof so as to enable the rigid support structure to be moved relatively over the floor. Wheels are mounted on said rigid support structure for movement between (1) an operative position extending below the downwardly facing surface of the rigid support structure and so as to enable the rigid support structure to be rolled over the upwardly facing surface of the vehicle floor and (2) an inoperative position disposed above the operative position thereof. The vehicle seat further includes a mechanism for moving the hook members into the operative position thereof and the wheels into the inoperative position thereof and for moving the hook members into the inoperative position thereof and the wheels into the operative position thereof.
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Aneiros Ricardo Z.
Dukatz Matthew E.
Kresky Fred C.
McCarthy Jay P.
Atoma International Inc.
Chrysler Corporation
Mitchell David M.
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