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Apparatus for turning up an down seats for telescopic seating system

US5228246A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 18, 1991
Grant dateJul 20, 1993
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Expiry dateApr 18, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47C1/126
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An apparatus for turning up and down seats for a telescopic seating system includes as essential components a foot on which a single seat is fixedly mounted, a base frame having a support shaft inserted therethrough in the transverse direction so as to allow the foot to be turned up and down about the support shaft, a center shaft extending through the base frame in parallel with the support shaft and including an extension outside of the housing, a guide arm turnably mounted on the extension of the center shaft, a pair of first coil springs mounted on the support shaft within the interior of the base frame so as to allow the foot to be normally biased in the turning-up direction, a second coil spring mounted on the extension of the center shaft so as to allow the guide arm to be normally turnably biased in the forward direction, and a pair of tongue-shaped projections fixedly mounted on the center shaft within the interior of the base frame, a link plate bridged between a front shaft on the foot and a rear shaft on the tongue-shaped projections. When the telescopic seating system is in use, turning movement of the guide arm induced by forward movement of a movable platform at the …

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