Arper S.p.a.

Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited

Pengelly Design Ltd

Simon Pengelly

Jean-Marie Massaud

Alberto Lievore

David Ferry

Nikki Lusardi

Edward Alexander Parkinson-Bates

Nathan David Sparshott

Paul Lawrie Edwards

Gareth Godfrey Southall

Edward Parkinson-Bates

A connection system for removably connecting first and second pieces one to another. The connection system comprises: a tapering recess formed in, or connected to, the first piece. The tapering recess has an opening which is shaped and dimensioned to receive a wedge formed in, or connected to, the second piece. The wedge has a dovetail profile which is adapted to engage with walls of the recess. The wedge is shaped and dimensioned to slide in a first direction and thereby wedge into the tapered recess. Each piece has at least one aperture which receives a lock piece. The first and second pieces when connected and which when oriented in a user preferred direction, cause the lock piece to fall from a first aperture into a second aperture, thereby locking the wedge in the tapering recess and preventing movement in an opposite sliding direction.

Connection system

A seating installation for a passenger vehicle, especially an aeroplane, the installation comprising a plurality of seat units, each seat unit having a back, two opposite sides and comprising a seat, which seat has a back-rest and a seat-pan and defines a longitudinal seat axis. The plurality of seat units are arranged in two adjacent files, each file defining a file axis, and the seat units in each file being oriented such that the axis of each seat unit subtends an acute angle with the respective file axis and being offset from one another along their respective seat axes to form at least one bay in each file behind the back of at least one seat unit and to one side of an adjacent seat unit in the same respective file, the seat units in the two respective files being staggered with respect to one another and the two files being disposed relative to one another such that at least one seat unit in each one of the files nests partially within a corresponding bay of the other file such that the seat units in the two respective files are arranged generally back-to-back with one another; and wherein each file comprises a succession of shields that are spaced along the respective file axis, the space between each pair of adjacent shields accommodating a respective seat of the file, the shields forming side screens for the seats, and the shields being configured and arranged such that a portion of at least one shield in each one of the files extends between two adjacent shields in the other file to form a rear screen for a corresponding seat in said other file disposed between the two adjacent shields.

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