Passenger seat support arrangement
AssigneeVogel Industrie GmbH
InventorErnst K. Ehemann
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Abstract
In a passenger seat support arrangement for a people mover comprising a seat portion and a seat portion support structure including a transverse beam on which the seat portion is supported, the transverse beam has, in its top side adjacent the seat portion, at least one recess which extends into the transverse beam and has a sidewardly extending undercut with an inclined top wall having at the base of the undercut a greater distance from the top side of the transverse beam than at its entrance, and the seat portion has at least one projection extending into the recess and having a bent-over end shaped so as to be snugly received in the undercut for firmly holding the seat portion in engagement with the transverse beam.
Claims7
A passenger seat for a people mover, comprising a seat portion and a seat portion support structure, said support structure including a transverse beam on which said seat portion is supported, said transverse beam having, at a first side thereof adjacent said seat portion, at least one recess extending from said first side into said transverse beam and including an undercut with an entrance and a base and having an internal wall portion adjacent said first side of said transverse beam which wall portion is inclined with respect to said first side of said transverse beam such that it is closer to said first side at the entrance to said undercut than it is at the base of the undercut, and said seat portion having at its side adjacent said transverse beam at least one projection extending into said recess and into said undercut and being engaged therein for holding said seat portion on said transverse beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.