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US 6,267,071 B1Granted
Adjustable helm seat and actuating apparatus of same
OwnerDonald Ray Ellisinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for providing vertical and horizontal adjustment of a helm seat in the cockpit of a boat. The apparatus can be mounted on a wall of the cockpit, without requiring any floor-based support, thereby providing better access to the floor area beneath the seat.
Claims7
Apparatus for the vertical and horizontal adjustment of a helm seat situated in a cockpit of a boat, wherein said boat has a floor and a longitudinal axis and said cockpit has a steering means and at least one cockpit wall, said apparatus comprising:
- a linear helm seat adjustment assembly;
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- a position-control device;
- wherein said helm seat-adjustment assembly is fixedly mountable on said cockpit wall of said boat, without a support that extends between said adjustment assembly and said floor of said boat,
- wherein said linear helm seat adjustment assembly includes a linear vertical-adjustment assembly and a linear horizontal-adjustment assembly and wherein a helm seat mounted on said linear helm seat adjustment assembly is horizontally adjustable along said horizontal seat axis that extends substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of said boat so as to maintain said helm seat aligned with said steering means, and is vertically adjustable, and
- wherein said vertical-adjustment assembly and said horizontal-adjustment assembly are independently adjustable by said position-control device.
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