Vehicle seat and receptacle
AssigneeBorneman Products, Inc.
InventorPaul N. Wagner
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Abstract
A storage receptacle is disposed under a vehicle seat and is mounted on the seat supports supporting the seat on the floor of the vehicle by drawer runners. Accordingly, the seat can be moved to a loading position past the forward edge of the seat and then moved to a storage position underneath the seat for transport. Since the receptacle is mounted on the seat supports, the receptacle is removed and installed in the vehicle when the seat is removed and installed in the vehicle. Optionally, the runners may be configured to permit movement of the receptacle from beneath the seat to a storage position past the rear end of the seat, so that access is permitted to the receptacle through, for example, open rear van doors when the seat is installed in a van.
Claims12
A vehicle seat and a storage receptacle disposed under said vehicle seat, said seat including a pair of side supports supporting a seating area, securing means releasably securing said side supports to a motor vehicle, a pair of drawer runners mounted on each of said supports and on said receptacle to mount said receptacle for sliding movement between a storage position under said seating area to a loading position displaced from said seating area to permit loading of said receptacle, whereby said receptacle is attached by said drawer runners to said vehicle seat and is installed and removed with said seat when the vehicle seat is installed and removed from the motor vehicle, said receptacle including a pair of side members, each of said side members being disposed adjacent an inner edge of a corresponding side support facing the corresponding side member, each of said drawer runners including a pair of relatively slidable members, one of said members bring secured to said inner edge of a corresponding one of said side supports and another of said members being secured to a side member of the receptacle.
A vehicle seat and a storage receptacle disposed under said vehicle seat, said seat including a pair of side supports supporting a seating area having a forward edge and a back edge, securing means releasably securing said side supports to a motor vehicle, receptacle mounting means mounted on each of said supports and on said receptacle to mount said receptacle for sliding movement from a storage position under said seating area to a first loading position displaced from said seating area across the forward edge of the seating area to permit loading of said receptacle from adjacent the forward edge of the seating area to a second loading position displaced from said seating area across the back edge of the seating area to permit loading of the receptacle from adjacent the rear edge of the seating area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.