Protomet Corporation

Brian Pitcher

Stewart Boyd

William Matthew Reid

Alec Stuckey

Lynn Haynes

Jeff S Bohanan

Nathan Mellas

Aaron Pierce

Jeff Bohanan

Matthew Duffield

Tyler Gooden

The present disclosure provides a seat slide-lock system including a seat slide rail having a longitudinal axis and defining at least one detent, and a seat movable along the longitudinal axis of the seat slide rail. The seat includes a seat slide-lock device including a slide handle accessible to a user and movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, a slide pin coupled to the slide handle and movable therewith, and a release switch accessible to the user and movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The slide pin is engageable with the detent in the engaged position, preventing seat movement, and disengaged in the disengaged position, allowing seat movement. The release switch prevents the slide handle and slide pin from moving from the disengaged position toward the engaged position when locked and allows such movement when unlocked.

Seat slide-lock system

Various implementations include a clamping storage device. The device includes a clamping assembly having a proximal stop, a gas spring, and a distal stop. The proximal stop extends along a proximal stop longitudinal axis. The gas spring has a gas spring longitudinal axis, first end, and a second end. The first end of the gas spring is coupled to the proximal stop. The distal stop is coupled to the second end of the gas spring and extends along a distal stop longitudinal axis. The proximal stop longitudinal axis and the distal stop longitudinal axis are both locatable in an assembly plane that incudes the gas spring longitudinal axis. The gas spring is biased toward an extended position and urgable toward a retracted state. The gas spring is movable toward the extended position in an unlocked state and is prevented from being moved toward the extended position in a locked state.

Clamping storage device

Various implementations include a sports board storage device. The device includes a housing, one or more linkages, a foot, and one or more linkage members. The housing has a first prong and a second prong. The one or more linkages are pivotably coupled to the first prong. The foot is pivotably coupled to the one or more linkages. The one or more linkage members are coupled to at least one of the one or more linkages. The one or more linkage members are movable relative to the housing to cause rotation of the one or more linkages and to cause the foot to move between a retracted position and an extended position. The foot is closer to the second prong in the extended position than it is in the retracted position.

Various implementations include a seat having a guide track, a base bracket, a first pivot arm, and a second pivot arm. The guide track includes an elongated track having a longitudinal centerline and one or more notches. The base bracket includes at least one laterally extending guide pin slidingly engaging the elongated track and disposable within the one or more notches. The first pivot arm is configured to support a forward cushion. The first pivot arm is rotatably coupled to the base bracket and movable between an upright position and a forward position. The second pivot arm is configured to support a rearward cushion. The second pivot arm is rotatably coupled to the base bracket and movable between an upright position and a rearward position.

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Oak Ridge, TN, United States of America

Brian Pitcher