Anti-chuck seat recliner

A pivot mechanism for reducing chucking, comprising:

• a quadrant adapted to be coupled with a seat back, said quadrant being pivotally mounted and having a set of teeth;
• gear means pivotally mounted about a pivot, said gear means having a first and second set of teeth, said first set of teeth rotatably engaged with said quadrant teeth;
• pawl means having a set of teeth engaging said gear means second set of teeth at a pitch point for releasably locking said gear means and quadrant in position, said pawl means pivotally mounted about a pivot and moving from a first position engaging said gear means to a second position disengaging said gear means and enabling movement of said gear means and said quadrant, said pawl means including a cam surface;
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• an engagement means pivotally mounted on a pivot, said engagement means biased in a first position contacting said pawl means cam surface and exerting a locking force on said pawl means when said pawl means is in its first position and in a second position enabling rotation of said pawl means to its second position and when said pawl means is in its first position, said tooth engagement of said pawl means and gear means, when a horizontal divides said gear means into upper and lower halves, occurs only on the lower half of said gear means.