Vehicle seating rows, particularly airplane passenger seating rows

US5810290A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Keiper Recaro GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Harald Merensky · Hamburg, DE
• Paul Baumlisberger
• Gerhard Klein
• Peter Miehlke · Schwäbisch Hall, DE
• Frank-Heinrich Schonenberg

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 22, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 7, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D11/064
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An improved vehicle seating row, in particular an airplane passenger seating row. The seating row is provided with at least one seat which can be displaced in the direction of the cross struts of a framework relative to the neighboring seat between two positions in which the seat row has a maximum or a minimum width and which can be locked in these positions to the framework by means of a latching mechanism, and with a hand lever mounted at one of the two end seat dividers which can be moved to three different tilted positions for actuating of the latching mechanism as well as a manually releasable locking device for the hand lever. The center position of the hand lever is associated with the released state of the latching mechanism and the two other tilted positions are associated with the effective state of the latching mechanism for the installation of the seating row with minimum or maximum widths, respectively.