Adjustable seat for a boat
AssigneePolaris Industries Inc.
InventorsBlair A. Donat, David A. Yoder
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Abstract
An adjustable seat assembly may have a seat back that is configurable in a fore position or a stern-facing seat, an aft position for a bow-facing seat, and a pillow position which facilitates a user laying down across the stern-facing seat. In addition, the seat back may be placed in a stowed position in which the seat back is absent from both the bow-facing and stern-facing seats, such that the seats cooperate to provide a planar support surface along an aft-to-fore extent of the seat assembly. The seat back may be adjustable by hand without tools, such that a user may easily reconfigure the seat assembly to sit facing the bow, to sit facing the stern, or to lie down.
Claims20
(canceled)
A seat assembly for a watercraft comprising:
- an aft seat;
- a fore seat;
- a seat back having an aft facing surface and a fore facing surface;
- a seat linkage pivotally coupling the seat back with one or more of the aft seat or the fore seat, the seat linkage includes:
- a seat base arm rotationally coupled with one or more of the aft seat or the fore seat;
- a seat back arm rotationally coupled with the seat base arm and coupled with the seat back;
- and
- wherein one of the seat base arm or the seat back arm includes a rotational guide configured to selectively rotationally lock the seat base arm with the seat back arm.
A seat assembly for a watercraft comprising:
- an aft seat;
- a fore seat;
- a seat back having an aft facing surface and a fore facing surface;
- a seat back storage compartment below one or more of the aft seat or the fore seat;
- a seat linkage pivotally coupling the seat back with one or more of the aft seat or the fore seat, the seat linkage includes:
- a seat base arm rotationally coupled with one or more of the aft seat or the fore seat;
- a seat back arm rotationally coupled with the seat base arm and coupled with the seat back;
- and
- wherein the seat back is selectively positioned between a seated orientation, a pillow orientation, and a stowed orientation through articulation of the seat linkage:
- in the seated orientation the seat back is upright;
- in the pillow orientation the seat back is reclined relative to the seated orientation;
- and
- in the stowed orientation the seat back is within the seat back storage compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.