SEAT-ASSEMBLY MOVEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090019785A1
• Filed: 04/26/2007
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Figueras Seating Europe S L
• Original Assignee: Figueras International Seating, S.A.
• Inventors: Figueras Mitjans, Jose
• Granted Patent: US 7,990,086 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/10
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/12 Theatre, auditorium, or similar chairs seats detachably mounted on stadium benches A47C1/16
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/126 stowable in floor or wall
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/123 Telescopic grandstands

Abstract

Seat-assembly movement system, for collecting up and deploying rows of seats (1) at the installation site, by means of sliding on guides (2) arranged in the floor, the movement of the rows of seats (1) being managed by means of a control system comprising a master PLC or a computer unit, for governing the installation, in combination with respective slave PLCs arranged on the carriages (3) carrying the rows of seats and in connection with devices for controlling the position of said carriages (3) on the mounting guides (2).

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A seat-assembly movement system, comprising:

rows of seats arranged in a sliding assembly by means of carrier carriages on guides housed in the floor of the application site, with the possibility of movement between a collected position in storage sites and a deployed position in distribution over the application site, with actuation by drive means incorporated in the actual carriages carrying the rows of seats or at the ends of the installation, the movement of the rows of seats being managed by means of a control system formed by a master PLC governing the entire installation, in combination with respective slave PLCs which are arranged in each carriage carrying the rows of seats and in connection with devices for controlling the position of the carriages on the guides;

the data transmission and electric transmissions to the carriages being established by busbars incorporated along the actual movement mounting guides, characterized in that plates for covering the guides are articulated in relation to the carriages carrying the rows of seats, said plates being provided at the lower part with a stop intended to establish a sliding contact on a ramp arranged in the area of entrance of the collection sites of the rows of seats, an automatic pivoting of the mentioned plates being established between respective vertical raised and horizontal lowered positions, due to the actual movement of the rows of seats in the collection and deployment movements.

11. A seat-assembly movement system according to claim 10, wherein the lower stop of the plates is provided with a dual stop to be supported in two successive phases on a ramp formed with two areas with a different inclination separated by a free space, allowing the non-abrupt pivoting of the plates, regardless of the speed of the movement.

12. A seat-assembly movement system according to claim 10, wherein the rows of seats can be collected in storage sites under the floor level, with access for introducing and removing the rows of seats by means of floor parts which can be moved in height, which are assembled on an assembly of spindles driven by a single motor with rotating drive transmissions to the different spindles.

13. A seat-assembly movement system according to claim 12, wherein the movement of the floor parts which can be moved in height is established with a deceleration control in a final section of the runs in order to determine the stops with accuracy of opposition between the sections of guides located in the fixed parts and in the mobile parts.