Abstract: A polymeric torque control is secured to a vehicle armrest and includes an integrally molded coupling surrounding an aperture for receiving and lockably mounting the torque control to a pivot axle extending from a vehicle support member. The integrated coupling is defined by an arcuate slot extending through the torque member in concentric spaced relationship to a pivot axle aperture. A transverse slot in the torque member communicates with the arcuate slot to define a pair of resilient arms having, in the preferred embodiment, outwardly projecting tabs at their free ends extending in a direction orthogonal to the plane of the torque member. Such construction allows a tool, such as a flat-bladed screwdriver, to be easily inserted between the ends of the arcuate arms for deflecting the arms outwardly from the pivot axle, which they surround, to release the armrest from a captive circumferential recess in the pivot axle for removal of the armrest.

Abstract: A tightening and clamping device including a shaft, first and second abutments supported on the shaft in a spaced relationship to each other, and an actuation member rotatable about an axis of the shaft between a tightening and clamping position and a release position and operatively connected with the second abutment, the actuation member and the second abutment having adjacent surfaces, with an adjacent surface of the actuation member or the second abutment being provided with rolling tracks and with rolling bodies being supported for a free rotation in another of the actuation member and the second abutment and displaceable along the rolling tracks, and detent elements acting in a radial direction for locking the actuation member and the second abutment relative to each other at least in one of the tightening and clamping position and the release position.