Slidable floor console
AssigneeInternational Automotive Components Group North America, Inc.
InventorAlan Sturt
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Abstract
A storage console configured to slide within a track. The storage console suitable for use in any number of environments, such as but not limited to automotive vehicles. The track being suitable to permit movement of the console from one end to the other, such as but not limited to facilitate movement of the console between multiple rows of vehicle seats.
Claims20
A storage console configured to slide within a track, the storage console comprising:
- a lever clamp proximate a bottom side of the console, the lever clamp including a locked and unlocked position, the locked position corresponding with the lever clamp pressing against the track to create a friction brake, the unlocked position corresponding with removal of the friction brake;
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- wherein the friction brake prevents movement of the console within the track only up to a threshold amount of force applied to an end of the console, the console moving within the track if force above the threshold is applied.
A storage console configured to slide within a track, the storage console comprising:
- a lever clamp proximate a bottom side of the console, the lever clamp including a locked and unlocked position, the locked position corresponding with the lever clamp pressing against the track to create a friction brake sufficient to secure positioning of the console with respect to the track, the unlocked position corresponding with removal of the friction brake such that the console is free to slide relative to the track;
- wherein the console rests against the track when the lever clamp is in the locked position and wherein the lever clamp raises the console above the track in the unlocked position.
A storage console configured to slide within a track, the storage console comprising:
- a clamp proximate a bottom side of the console, the clamp including a locked and unlocked position, the locked position corresponding with the clamp pressing against the track to create a friction brake sufficient to secure positioning of the console with respect to the track, the unlocked position corresponding with movement of the clamp below the track to remove the friction brake such that the console is free to slide relative to the track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.