Mount for motor-vehicle headrest

US6012777A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GRAMMER AUTOMOTIVE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Lutz Wege · Solingen, DE
• Mathias Patzold · Langenfeld, DE
• Jörg Teichmann · Bad Staffelstein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 8, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 11, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 8, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/897
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A headrest mount has a rod having an upper end adapted to carry a headrest, extending along an axis, and formed with a plurality of axially spaced and radially outwardly open notches and a socket fitting having a tube in which the rod is axially centered and slidable and a head axially traversed by the rod and forming a slide compartment having upper and lower confronting planar surfaces extending generally perpendicular to the axis. A generally rectangular and wholly plastic slide plate in the slide compartment is formed with a central aperture through which the rod passes and has a pair of axially oppositely directed planar faces respectively engaging the surfaces of the compartment. The slide plate is a snug fit between the compartment surfaces. At least one spring engaged in the head between the plate and the fitting urges the plate radially of the axis and presses an edge of the aperture against the rod so that when one of the notches is aligned with the plate the edge engages therein and axially arrests the rod in the fitting.