US274809A

US274809A - Seat-lock

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Publication number: US274809A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1900-03-27

Description

(ModeL) P. P. MONFORT.

SEAT LOGK.

No. 274,809. Patented Mar.Z7,1883.

INVENTOR BY W W h 7 ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKPaMONFORT, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA.

S EAT- LO C K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,809, dated March 27, 1883.

Application filed November 4, 1882. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK POWERS MON- FORT, of Oskaloosa, in the county of Mahaska and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement. in Fastenings for Vehicle- Seats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of a wagon body and seat to which my improvement has been applied, the improvement being shown in side elevation and with part broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the lower part of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional rear elevation of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide fasteuingsfor vehicle-seatsconstructed in such a manner that they will hold the seat securely. can be readily unfastened, and will fasten themselves automatically when the seat is arranged in place. a

The invention consists in a seat-fastening constructed with two sockets having inclined ends, and provided with a guidearm formed upon one socket to entera guard-socket formed in the other socket, and two hooks hinged in the ends of the upper socket to engage with shoulders on the inner faces of the ends of the lower socket, so that When the said fastening is attached to the seat-riser and the vehiclebody the seat will be held securely in place and can be readily attached and detached, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Arepresentsa wagon-body; B, the seat, and C the seat-riser.

D and E are long and narrow sockets, attached respectively to the inner side of the riser O and the side-board of the wagon-body A. The sockets D E are made with their ends inclining inward and downward, and with flanges D E upon their ends to receive the screwsforfastening themin place. Thesocket E is placed directly beneath the socket D, and is made so much shorter than the said socket D that the upper edge of the said socketE will be a little shorter than the lower edge of the said socket D, as shown in Fig. 1.

In the center of the interior of the socket D is formed a guide-arm, E, which projects below the lower edge of the said socket D, so as to enter a guard-socket, G, formed in the center of the socket E, to hold the seat from sliding upon the wagon-body.

In the upper end parts of the socket D are hinged, by screws, rivets, or other suitable means the upper ends of two hooks, H, the lower parts of the outer edges of which are recessed to receive and fit upon shoulders a, secured to the inner faces of the ends of the socket E, to hold the seat B from rising, the inclination of the ends of the two sockets D E causing ,the hooks H to be held in place by their own weight. With this construction the seat cannot rise while the hooks H are in place, and any jar that would disengage one of the said hooks will hold the other more securely in place.

In removing the seat the lower ends of the hooks H are drawn toward each other by hand, which releases the seat and allows it to be raised.

When the seatis arranged in place upon the vehicle-body the hooks El engage with the ends of the socket E and fasten the seat in place automatically.

I am aware that pivoted hooks or catches engaging with corresponding recesses in a hasp, in connection with a sliding bolt for holding the hooks in engagement with the recesses in the basp have heretofore been employed for securing seats to the bodies of vehicles; and I therefore lay no claim, broadly, to such invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the socket D, secured to the seat-riser and having inclined end flanges D, and socket E, shorter than the socket D, and secured to the body and provided with the inclined end flanges E, of the inclined pivoted hooks H, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the seat-riser 0, body A, socket D, provided with the inclined end flanges D and pivoted hooks H, socket E, provided with inclined end flanges E, having shoulders to, arm F, and socket G, substantially as shown and described.

FRANK POWERS MONFORT.

Witnesses:

J. O. WILLIAMS, A. E. PAINTER.