Seat mountings
AssigneeCox of Watford Limited
InventorFrederick William Babbs
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Abstract
This invention is directed to a fore-and-aft adjustable seat mounting for a vehicle comprising a pair of relatively slidable channels which have interlocking flanges capable of deformation to absorb loads, whereby one end of a seat belt can be fixed either to the movable channel or to the seat fastened to that channel and the mounting will be capable of absorbing the substantial loads that may be experienced in an accident.
Claims14
A mounting for a vehicle seat which comprises two relatively slidable elongated members, one of which is attachable to a vehicle seat and the second of which is attachable to a vehicle floor, each of said two elongate members having a cross-section which includes two arcuate portions, said elongate members being positioned relative to one another such that each arcuate portion of one member is positioned in correspondence with an arcuate portion of the other member to thereby form two separate ball tracks;
- roller means positioned in each of said ball tracks to provide frictionless slidable movement between said elongate members;
- each elongate member also including extension flanges extending beyond each of said arcuate portions, said extension flanges of each of said two elongate members cooperating with each other to contact and bend one another in response to loads applied to said elongate member attachable to said vehicle seat;
- and means on said elongate member attachable to said vehicle seat for connection to one end of a seat belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.