LITTER AND STORAGE CONTAINER IN AN AUTOMOBILE SEAT ASSEMBLY

• US 3,625,347 A
• Filed: 12/02/1969
• Issued: 12/07/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Earl M. Trammell Jr
• Original Assignee: Earl M. Trammell Jr
• Inventors: Trammell, Earl M. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Summer, Leonard
• Application Number:
  US04/881,415
• Time in Patent Office: 735 Days
• Field of Search: 206/19.5R 224/29D,42.42A
• US Class Current: 224/275
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/08 of receptacles for refuse, e.g. ash-trays
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/043 mounted on or under a seat
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/928 Trash receptacle

Abstract

A litter and storage container in an automobile seat assembly, having a rear portion that fits under the seat communicating with a front portion that engages the front seat side adjacent the lower edge of the automobile seat, said front and rear portions together having a generally L-shaped configuration. A mounting means connects the casing to the seat, the mounting means including an adjustable clamp means connected to the container and engaging a rearwardly facing seat shoulder to hold the container tightly against the front seat side. In one embodiment, the clamp means includes a threaded fastener that extends through socket, connected to the container by magnets, and a hook threadedly attached to the fastener that engages the seat shoulder to clamp the seat between the hook and casing flange. In another embodiment, the clamp means includes a flat coil spring having one end attached to the container and the opposite end attached to the seat shoulder, the spring loading clamping the seat between a spring end and the container front portion. The container includes telescopically related upper and lower sections, the container sections being adjusted for different underseat heights.

Claims

1. In an automobile seat assembly:

a. an automobile seat having a front side and a bottom side, the bottom side being provided with a rearwardly facing shoulder, b. a litter and storage container fitting at least partially under the seat, the container being substantially L-shaped having a hollow front container portion extending forwardly of and adjacent to the front seat side and above the bottom seat side, and having a hollow near container portion that is angularly related to and in communication with the front container portion to provide a substantially L-shaped chamber, the front container portion having a top opening for insertion of material into both the front and bottom container portions, and c. mounting means connecting the container to the seat, the mounting means including an adjustable clamp means connected to the container and engaging the seat shoulder to hold the front container portion against the front seat side and to hold the bottom container portion under the bottom seat side.

2. a threaded fastener extending through the socket, and

3. In an automobile seat assembly:

a. an automobile seat having a front side and a bottom side, the bottom side being provided with a rearwardly facing shoulder adjacent the lower edge of the front side, b. a litter and storage container fitting at least partially under the seat, the container being substantially L-shaped having a portion extending forwardly of and adjacent to the front seat side and having a top opening in the front container portion, c. mounting means connecting the container to the seat, the mounting means including an adjustable clamp means connected to the container and engaging the seat shoulder to hold the front container portion tightly against the front seat side, and d. the clamp means including a flat coil spring having one end attached to the container and the opposite end attached to the seat shoulder, the spring loading of the coil spring clamping the seat between a spRing end and the front container portion.

4. In an automobile seat assembly:

a. an automobile seat having a front side and a bottom side, b. a litter and storage container including a hollow front container portion and a hollow rear container portion which are angularly related and in communication to provide a substantially L-shaped chamber, the front container portion being provided with an access opening for the substantially L-shaped chamber for insertion of material into both the front and bottom container portions, and c. mounting means connecting the substantially L-shaped container to the seat, the front container portion being located forwardly of and adjacent to the front seat side and above the rear seat side, and the bottom container portion being located under and adjacent to the bottom seat side.

5. An automobile seat assembly as defined in claim 4, in which:

d. the front container portion having the access opening for the substantially L-shaped chamber is fixed relative to the front seat side so that the access opening is maintained at a constant height relative to the seat when the seat is moved back and forth despite irregularities in the floor contour or any change in seat height.

6. An automobile seat assembly as defined in claim 5, in which:

e. the substantially L-shaped container includes telescopically related first and second sections, the second section being carried by the seat, and f. the second container section includes the upper part of the rear container portion and the upper part of the front container portion having the access opening.

7. An automobile seat assembly as defined in claim 6, in which:

g. means associated with the telescopically related first and second sections to adjust the telescopic relation of said sections to the space under the seat as the seat is raised or lowered, the access opening of the front container portion being maintained at the constant height relative to the seat when the seat is raised or lowered as well as when the seat is moved back and forth.