Passenger seat meal tray
AssigneeB/E Aerospace, Inc.
InventorJohn Williamson
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Abstract
A passenger seat meal tray latch assembly having a pair of laterally spaced-apart latch plates for being secured to a surface of a seat back of a passenger seat directly above a meal tray stowage position, a cross-member for being positioned laterally across the surface of the seat back and locked to the seat back by releasable connection to the pair of latch plates, a latch mounted on the cross-member and movable between a retracted position for permitting the meal tray to be moved into and out of its stowage position and an extended position for latching the meal tray to the seat back.
Claims17
A passenger seat meal tray latch assembly, comprising:
- (a) a pair of laterally spaced-apart latch plates for being secured to a surface of a seat back of a passenger seat directly above a meal tray stowage position;
- (b) a cross-member for being positioned laterally across the surface of the seat back and locked to the seat back by releasable connection to the pair of latch plates;
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- (c) a latch mounted on said cross-member and movable between a retracted position for permitting the meal tray to be moved into and out of its stowage position and an extended position for latching the meal tray to the seat back.
A passenger seat, comprising:
- (a) a ladder frame assembly including a leg for being attached to a supporting surface;
- (b) a seat bottom assembly carried by the ladder frame assembly;
- (c) a seat back carried by the ladder frame assembly;
- (d) a meal tray carried by the passenger seat for being used by a passenger seated aft of the passenger seat;
- and comprising:
- (i) a pair of laterally spaced-apart latch plates for being secured to a surface of a seat back of a passenger seat directly above a meal tray stowage position;
- (ii) a cross-member for being positioned laterally across the surface of the seat back and locked to the seat back by releasable connection to the pair of latch plates;
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- (iii) a latch mounted on said cross-member and movable between a retracted position for permitting the meal tray to be moved into and out of its stowage position and an extended position for latching the meal tray to the surface of the seat back.
A passenger seat, comprising:
- (a) a ladder frame assembly including a leg for being attached to a supporting surface;
- (b) a seat bottom assembly carried by the ladder frame assembly;
- (c) a seat back carried by the ladder frame assembly, and including a dress cover for covering seat back cushion assembly and seat back frame portions of the seat back;
- (d) a meal tray carried the ladder frame assembly for being used by a passenger seated aft of the passenger seat;
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- (e) a meal tray latch assembly, comprising:
- (i) a pair of laterally spaced-apart latch plates for being secured to a surface of a seat back of a passenger seat directly above a meal tray stowage position;
- (ii) a cross-member for being positioned laterally across the surface of the seat back and locked to the seat back by releasable connection to the pair of latch plates;
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- (iii) a latch mounted on said cross-member and movable between a retracted position for permitting the meal tray to be moved into and out of its stowage position and an extended position for latching the meal tray to the surface of the seat back.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.