Headrest for use in motor vehicles having pivot members, resilient strip and friction bands
AssigneeR. Schmidt GmbH
InventorReinhard Schmidt
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Abstract
Limited pivotability is imparted to a headrest for an automotive vehicle without having the resistance to pivoting change during the life of the headrest by providing a pair of pivot elements within the headrest which have brake stubs engaged by resilient strips functioning as brake shoes which bear upon these stubs and which are braced against the frame of the headrest to which the body of the headrest is attached. The support rods from the vehicle seat pass through openings in the bottom of the body to engage the pivot members.
Claims17
A headrest for use in an automotive vehicle and adapted to be supported therein upon support rods, said headrest comprising:
- a headrest frame;
- a headrest body on said frame;
- a pair of pivot members received in said body, engaged by said rods and formed with respective brake stubs, said pivot members defining a pivot axis about which the headrest body and frame are limitedly pivotal relative to said rods, said brake stubs being centered on said axis;
- at least one resilient strip held nonrotatably in said frame and forming a brakeshoe braced against each of said brake stubs and shaped to extend over at least a major portion of a periphery thereof for preventing unintentional angular displacement of said body relative to said pivot members, said strip being composed of spring steel or synthetic resin material;
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- a band of friction-increasing material selected from the group which consists of plastic, rubber and rubber substitutes between said strip and the respective periphery of the respective brake stub.
A headrest for use in an automotive vehicle and adapted to be supported therein upon support rods, said headrest comprising:
- a headrest frame;
- a headrest body on said frame;
- a pair of pivot members received in said body, engaged by said rods and formed with respective brake stubs, said pivot members defining a pivot axis about which the headrest body and frame are limitedly pivotal relative to said rods, said brakes stubs being centered on said axis;
- at least one resilient strip held nonrotatably in said frame and forming a brakeshoe braced against each of said brake stubs and shaped to extend over at least a major portion of a periphery thereof for preventing unintentional angular displacement of said body relative to said pivot members, said strip being composed of spring steel or synthetic resin material, said strip being formed with diametrically oppositely disposed pairs of inwardly projecting indexing formations alternatively engageable in detent recesses formed in the periphery of the respective brake stub.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.