Lear Corporation

Ted M Grohs

Ronald M Lovasz

John R Sims

James C Masters

Todd A Mysliwiec

Dave Williams

Eric Spier

Marcus Gorski

Brian Fechner

Paul Bergmanis

Hongliang Chen

Dave Zimmerman

A vehicular seat for use in extracting a driver from a vehicle driver compartment of, for example, a racing vehicle. The seat includes a shell having a seat bottom and seat back. The seat further includes a securing strap for securing the driver to the seat. A plurality of receptacles are attached to the seat and are adapted to receive a lifting member, such as a plurality of straps. To extract the seat from the driver compartment the driver is secured to the seat by the securing strap. The lifting member is then secured to the seat. The lifting member is then raised to simultaneously extract the driver and seat from out of the driver compartment.

Extractable seat

A tubular bushing (26) assembly made of plastic material and disposed in an opening (24) defined by a pair of spaced sheets in a seat back (14) of an automotive vehicle to adjustably support each of the posts (22) of a headrest (20). The bushing (26) comprises an outer sleeve (28) presenting ribs (32, 34) for engaging the edges of the opening (24) in each of the sheets of the bracket of the seat back frame (18) and an inner sleeve (30) for insertion within said outer sleeve (28) for slidably supporting the post (22) and having hoop rings (46, 48) for forcing the outer sleeve (28) radially outwardly to deform the ribs (32, 34) about and into gripping engagement with the edges of the openings (24).

Headrest guide sleeve

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Novi, MI, United States of America

Ted M Grohs