Fold down seat utilizing pivotally constructed bracket

A pivoting bracket for supporting a boat seat on the deck of a boat, such bracket permitting the seat normally to remain upright, but also to be pivoted, on occasion, into a low center of gravity position closely adjacent the deck,

• said bracket comprising a pair of interfitting members, one of said members being a clevis-shaped first member having spaced-apart portions, and the second member being interposed between said spaced-apart portions,
• said bracket being rigidly supported above the deck by a relatively short mounting means, such that said bracket is disposed closer to the deck than to the seat,
• a pivot pin extending through said spaced-apart portions of said first member as well as through said second member,
• said pivot pin permitting said members to reside in an aligned relationship when the seat is intended to reside in an upright position, as well as to reside in a n angular attitude when the seat has been moved out of the upright position, and
• locking means enabling said members to be locked in an aligned relationship, such that a user may sit on the seat without the seat possibly moving into an unusable position,
• the support of said bracket relatively close to the deck by said relatively short mounting means, enabling the entire seat to be folded over into a low center of gravity position closely adjacent the deck at such time as said members have been caused to reside in the angular attitude.

A pivoting bracket for supporting a boat seat on the deck of a boat, such bracket permitting the seat normally to remain upright, but also to be pivoted over into a low center of gravity position closely adjacent the deck on occasion,

• said bracket comprising a pair of interfitting members, one of said members being a clevis-shaped first member having spaced-apart portions, and a second member interposed between said spaced-apart portions,
• said bracket being rigidly supported above the deck by a relatively short mounting means, such that said bracket is disposed closer to the deck than to the seat,
• a hole formed through said spaced-apart portions of said first member as well as through said second member, through which hole a pivot pin extends,
• said pivot pin permitting said members to reside in an aligned relationship when the seat is intended to reside in an upright position, as well as to reside in an angular attitude when the seat has been folded over into a position away from the vertical,
• a plurality of spaced apart, arcuately placed holes in said second member, each of said holes being located at a substantially identical radius with respect to the hole through which said pivot pin extends,
• and locking means forming an integral part of said bracket, said locking means enabling said members to be locked in a desired rotational relationship, the particular relationship depending upon which of said arcuately placed holes is selected for entry by said locking means,
• said bracket, by being supported relatively close to the deck by said relatively short mounting means, thus enabling the entire seat to be folded over into a location relatively close to the deck, so as to place the seat in a low center of gravity position.