VEHICLE SEAT CONSTRUCTION

• US 3,713,696 A
• Filed: 05/20/1971
• Issued: 01/30/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard Dudley
• Original Assignee: Richard Dudley
• Inventors: Dudley, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/145,160
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 297/445,452,453-456,DIG.1,DIG.2
• US Class Current: 297/452.55
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/64 Back-rests or cushions B60N2/2222 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 297/01 Foam

Abstract

A vehicle seat bottom or back squab comprises a pan having a plurality of separate pads attached thereto. These pads may be spaced apart to leave a channel or channels. Each pad may be located by inter-fitting with a shaped part of the pan. Portions of the pan may be cut away to form resilient cantilever portions, carrying padded material.

Claims

1. A seat squab comprising a pan of substantially rigid sheet material, pads secured side-by-side on said pan so as jointly to form a padded rest surface, and integral formations in said pan and in each pad which formations interfit so as to locate each pad relative to the pan.

2. A seat squab comprising a pan of substantially rigid sheet material, pads of foamed material secured side-by-side on said pan so as jointly to form a padded rest surface, integral formations in said pan and in each pad, which formations are interfitting so as to locate each pad relative to the pan, and a channel separating the rest surface of at least one pad from the rest surface of an adjacent pad.

3. A seat squab according to claim 2, in which said interfitting formations comprise integral depressions in said pan and complementary integral projections respectively in said pads.

4. A seat squab comprising a pan of substantially rigid material, pads of foamed material secured side-by-side on said pan so as jointly to form a padded rest surface, at least some of the pads being spaced apart to provide channels between them, and integral formations in said pan and in each pad, which formations are interfitting so as to locate each pad relative to the pan.

5. A seat squab according to claim 4, in which the material of the pan is removed below the space separating said spaced-apart pads.

6. A seat squab comprising a pan of substantially rigid sheet material, which pan includes resilient spaced-apart cantilever portions, pads of foamed material secured respectively to said cantilever portions, said pads being side-by-side so as jointly to form a padded rest surface, integral formations in each of said cantilever portions and in each of said pads, which formations are interfitting so as to locate each pad relative to the cantilever portion to which it is secured.

7. A seat squab according to claim 6, in which said interfitting formations comprise integral depressions in said pan material and complementary integral projections respectively in said pads.