Abstract: An improved seating system that includes a seat back assembly (10) that is fabricated to include a seat back (12) with a first panel portion (14) that is optionally secured to a second panel portion (16) with one or more fasteners such as welds, adhesives, tack-offs, steel brackets or otherwise. The first panel portion (14), the second panel portion (16) or both preferably are plastic. The seat back assembly (10) may include one or more integrated reinforcement structures (20).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 27, 2004
Date of Patent:
June 26, 2007
Assignee:
Dow Global Technologies Inc
Inventors:
Vikas Gupta, Hein J. Koelman, Steve J. Rogers, Eric Kurtycz, Ravi Ramanathan
Abstract: The present invention is related to a unit utilized in the practice of outdoor sports, specifically, but not solely, for stalking and legally hunting animals. Specifically it refers to an automatically and reversibly transformable trailer-to-raised lookout platform from which the animals may be observed for the purpose of filming them, photographing them or hunting them. It is characterized by consisting of a cube-shaped structure with at least one set of wheels and a hitch for connecting it to a towing vehicle, with a roof made up of a platform and an awning which may be raised and lowered by means of telescoping arms located in each corner and activated by an elevation system which raises the platform above the trailer thus forming the floor of an observation and lookout cabin, as well as the awning which at the same time is raised above the platform making between the awning and the platform means for covering the side opening of the cabin.
Abstract: In a locking arrangement for a hardtop vehicle roof, which is movable between open and closed positions and includes at least front and rear roof parts, which, in the closed position of the vehicle roof, are disposed behind one another, two locking structures with pivotal locking hooks are supported by support plates on the front roof part for engaging locking pins mounted on a windshield frame and, respectively, the rear roof part and are operable by an operating mechanism so as to pivot toward each other for engaging the locking pins and pulling the roof into firm engagement with the windshield frame, and, at the same time, the front and rear roof parts into firm engagement with each other.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 17, 2004
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2005
Assignee:
CTS Fahrzeug - Dachsysteme GmbH
Inventors:
Andreas Hasselgruber, Frank Neubrand, Richard Duseck
Abstract: An electric wire excess length absorbing device has a casing, a reel pivotably provided in the casing for winding an electric wire, and an energizing member to energize the reel in a direction to wind the electric wire, which casing has an opening portion to lead out the electric wire. The casing may be formed long between a portion having the reel and the opening portion. A sliding door-use power feeding apparatus has an electric wire excess length absorbing device installed in a sliding door or on a vehicle body. A moving-side electric wire is arranged on one of the sliding door and the vehicle body, and a fixed-side electric wire 3b is arranged on the other of the sliding door and the vehicle body.