Restraint system for a school bus seat
AssigneeIndiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsCharles G. Vits, Christopher W. Foye
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Abstract
A passenger restraining harness and support assembly for use with a bench seat mounted in a vehicle. The bench seat includes a frame having a seat support portion with a front portion and a rear portion, a seatback portion coupled to the seat support portion, and legs or supports anchoring the seat to the vehicle. A harness support assembly includes a tower member with a slotted bottom end pivotally coupled to the rear of the seat support, a connecting member having one end adapted to fit into the slot in the tower member and a second end connected to the front of the seat support portion, a belt guide connected to the top of the tower member, and an anchor wing connected to the connecting member. A belt or harness attaches to the support assembly.
Claims20
A vehicle passenger seat restraint system comprising:
- a passenger seat frame mounted to a vehicle and having a vertically extending portion,
- a seat for supporting a passenger and having a seat bottom fixedly mounted to the seat frame and a seat back moveably mounted to said seat frame adjacent the vertically extending portion,
- a substantially rigid seat belt supporting member rigidly mounted to said seat back,
- said supporting member having a top portion and a rigid bottom portion,
- wherein said rigid bottom portion and said seat frame define a cooperative stop mechanism, and
- wherein said stop mechanism limits movement of said seat back relative to said seat frame in at least one direction.
A seat structure for mounting a passenger restraint seat belt comprising:
- a seat frame for mounting to a vehicle,
- a rear passenger restrainer rigidly mounted on the seat frame to restrain movement of a rear passenger,
- a seat having a bottom and a seat back carried by the seat frame for supporting a person,
- said seat back mounted to said seat frame, and moveable as a unit away from said seat frame and said rear passenger restrainer,
- a seat belt support fixedly mounted to the seat back and moveable relative to the seat frame and rear passenger restrainer upon movement of said seat back relative to the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.