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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2016
The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN (US);
Jeremy A. Fohrenkamm, River Falls, WI (US);
Gordon R. Schmidt, Farmington, MN (US);
David A. Plautz, Woodbury, MN (US);
Timothy P. McLeod, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Jamie R. Larson, Farmington, MN (US);
Erik A. Wiebold, Shakopee, MN (US);
The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN (US);
Abstract
A utility vehicle has a frame that is separable at a location passing through an operator compartment of the vehicle into front and rear sections with the seat base and seat assembly of the operator compartment remaining with the rear section and the rest of the operator compartment remaining with the front section. A seat extension kit is provided having a frame extension, a seat module, and a floorboard module that may be inserted between the split front and rear sections with the frame extension being fastened to such sections using pre-existing fastener holes in the vehicle frame and the frame extension. When so inserted, the seat module forms a new front row of seating with the floorboard module extending between the seat module and the original seat base and seat assembly, which now form a rear row of seating. This expands the vehicle seating capacity from two people to four people.