Ami Industries, Inc.

Aircraft Mechanics, Inc.

William D Reida

Othar P Kennedy

Reclining vehicle seat

A single pivot connection for a legrest of a vehicle seat and the like includes a shaft extending from a bracket attached to the seat and an arm bracket attached to the legrest and pivotally supported upon the shaft. The arm bracket has a cylindrical portion and there is a hub on the end of the cylindrical portion with a circumferentially extending notch therein which receives a key formed in an annular member rotatably positioned upon the hub. A gear mounted on the shaft is engageable with a pawl and there is a braking disc between the end of the cylindrical portion and gear such that the application of a predetermined force on the legrest will pivot the legrest with respect to the seat. The pawl engages the gear as the legrest pivots to a horizontal position and pivoting beyond the horizontal to the vertical up position causes cam surfaces on the annular member to disengage the pawl from the gear so that the legrest is free for pivotal movement.

Single pivot connection for a legrest

This tie down for seat cushions, such as single and multiple mounted type vehicle seat cushions resides in tabs swivelly attached to the opposing sides of the seat cushions and depending downwardly therefrom with the apertures being formed therein adjacent the free ends thereof. Upstanding hooks having bent ears thereon are anchored in the seat frames adjacent the side and center arm rest frames whereby cushions horizontally supported by the seat frames may be detached therefrom and rotated or reversed and reattached to and restrained by the hooks so as to present a clean or unworn seating surface when desired.

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Green Mountain Falls, CO, United States of America

William D Reida