Zodiac Seats UK Limited

Benedict Nicholas Samuels

Christopher Hankinson

There is provided an aircraft seat cubicle that has a seat convertible to a bed, a foot rest or ottoman, a table and a light, each movable lengthways of the cubicle. One of the items of furniture is received on a track. The item of furniture can be driven towards or away from the seat via a pulley, a cable, and a drive motor. A tension spring in the run of the cable stretches and releases its tension in order to allow the cable to slip on a capstan at one end of the track for driven movement of the furniture.

Movable seat

An aircraft seat has a chassis (), fixed to a pallet which is fixed to the floor of the aircraft. The chassis has two load bearing sides () and opposite ends (). Fixed along the top edge of the sides () and facing outwards are pins () supporting bearing wheels (). These on each side engage with a rectangular S form interconnection beam () having an inside groove () for receiving these wheels. On the outside, the beam has another groove () receiving similar wheels (), on pins () fixed to the inside of side plates () of a sub-frame (), these side plates being interconnected by front and rear beams (). Thus the sub-frame can move back and forth, with the wheels acting as rolling element bearings. The beams move half the distance of the sub-frame, in analogous manner to the bearing of filing cabinet drawers.

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Tetbury, United Kingdom

Benedict Nicholas Samuels