Vehicle seat

A vehicle seat having a seat pan, a seat back which is reclinable from a normal substantially vertical position to a sleeping position in which the seat back forms a substantially continuous surface with the seat pan, and a generally vertical partition located behind the seat and mounted on rails for linear movement between a forward position adjacent to the top of the seat back when in its fully upright position and a rearward position adjacent to the top of the seat back when in its fully reclined position, wherein the rails extend from a position under the seat to a position which is in front of the rear edge of the partition when the partition is in its forward position.

A vehicle seat having a seat pan, a seat back which is reclinable from a normal substantially vertical position to a sleeping position in which the seat back forms a substantially continuous surface with the seat pan, and a generally vertical partition located behind the seat and mounted on rails for linear movement between a forward position adjacent to the top of the seat back when in its fully upright position and a rearward position adjacent to the top of the seat back when in its fully reclined position, wherein the partition has a recess in a rear surface thereof dimensioned to receive a footrest of a second rearwardly located seat when the second seat is in its reclined position.

A vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein a flexible fabric screen is suspended from a cable which, when deployed extends from the upper edge of the partition to a location near the front of an armrest of the seat.