Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Seats with body modifications
Patent
1979-04-02
1981-03-24
Mitchell, David M.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Seats with body modifications
410 12, 410 96, B60N 102, B62B 1100
Patent
active
042576440
ABSTRACT:
A wheelchair tie-down apparatus is provided for use on buses, vans, and other vehicles with emphasis in the public transportation area. The tie-down apparatus comprises three elongated coffers arranged to define a wheelchair bay, each of these coffers having hinged lids which open to expose an extendable, length-adjustable, flexible strap which is connected to a structural member of the wheelchair and then all three straps are cinched down through use of the length adjustment mechanism.
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Charmasson Henri J. A.
Mitchell David M.
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