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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1986
Peter F Brautigam, Kewaskum, WI (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A vehicle seat positioned on a vehicle over a battery having a battery housing surrounding the battery with the housing including at least one vertical fore-and-aft extending wall positioned alongside the battery. The seat is mounted on a seat frame that can swing vertically about a transverse axis at one end of the frame. The vertical housing wall has a vertical opening therein with opposed vertical edges and with one of those edges having vertical spaced notches therein. An L-shaped latch rod is positioned on the under side of the seat frame and the rod includes a horizontal portion that is journalled on the underside and a vertical portion that extends alongside the housing wall with a lower inwardly extending end that projects into and is adapted for seating in the notches. The opposite end of the horizontal rod portion has a lever thereon that may be utilized to move the lower inwardly extending end out of the notches. A spring extends from the vehicle to the part of the latch rod positioned alongside the housing wall. The spring biases the lower end of the vertical portion of the latch rod into a selected one of the respective notches.