Abstract: A seat support for use with a vehicle seat and configured to engage a track on the floor of the vehicle. The track including two inwardly-directed lips on opposed sides of a slot, the lips providing first alternating protrusions, a spacing distance apart, and recesses along the length of the track. The seat support having an elongate main body and including an interface portion having second alternating protrusions and recesses. The second protrusions are spaced apart by the same spacing distance as the first protrusions. The seat support includes first and second bracing members and a locking arrangement. The locking arrangement configured to restrain the longitudinal movement of the seat support when engaged.

Abstract: A seat support for use with a vehicle seat and configured to engage a track on the floor of the vehicle. The track including two inwardly-directed lips on opposed sides of a slot, the lips providing first alternating protrusions, a spacing distance apart, and recesses along the length of the track. The seat support having an elongate main body and including an interface portion having second alternating protrusions and recesses. The second protrusions are spaced apart by the same spacing distance as the first protrusions. The seat support includes first and second bracing members and a locking arrangement. The locking arrangement configured to restrain the longitudinal movement of the seat support when engaged.

Abstract: A seat support for use with a vehicle seat and adapted to engage a track provided on the floor of a vehicle. The track can have two inwardly-directed lips on opposed sides of a slot, the lips providing first alternating protrusions and recesses along the length of the track. The alternating protrusions are spaced apart by a spacing distance and the first and second protrusions define shoulder surfaces on each side thereof. The track defines a bearing surface formed on the inner face of each first protrusion. The seat support also includes an interface portion that has a profile having second alternating protrusions and recesses. The second protrusions are spaced apart by the same spacing distance as the first protrusions. The seat support also has a retaining mechanism that engages with the track and secures the seat support in the desired position. The retaining mechanism can have multiple securing members.

Abstract: A fitting for a vehicle incorporates a backrest and a removable seat squab so that the fitting may be used as a conventional seat, or as a safety fitting to engage a rear of a wheelchair. The backrest is wider at the top than at a lower point, to enable the handles of a relatively narrow wheelchair to pass on either side of the backrest. The backrest is mounted on a supporting frame by a pivotal link mechanisms enabling the backrest to move forwardly so that an electric wheelchair, or other wheelchair that has a rearwardly extending portion towards the back lower part of the wheelchair may be accommodated with the back of the wheelchair in engagement with the backrest of the fitting. The fitting is mounted for lateral movement, the fitting being supported on a base plate which can move laterally on a floor-mounted platform to enable a wheelchair to be manoeuvred easily past the fitting.

Abstract: A retaining arrangement for securing an object to a surface includes a retaining element which is moveable between a stowed position and a retaining position. The retaining element is substantially level with, or below, the level of the surface. The retaining element protrudes from the surface and presents at least one elongate retaining slot above the surface which is substantially parallel with the surface, into which a part of an object to be retained maybe inserted. The retaining slot is at least partially formed by a retaining surface of the retaining element, the retaining surface facing, when the retaining element is in the retaining position, in a direction having at least a component that extends towards the plane of the surface in the vicinity of the retaining element.

Abstract: A seat support for use with a vehicle seat and adapted to engage a floor-mounted track, the track having two inwardly directed lips on opposed sides of a slot. The seat support has a framework to support the seat, and which is provided with a clamping mechanism to engage the lips of the track. The clamping mechanism has two spaced apart plates, with the spaced apart plates having inwardly inclined lower regions. The lower edge of each plate carries an outwardly directed flange. A mechanism is provided to move the lower regions outwardly against an inherent resistance bias provided by the plates from an initial position in which the flanges may be inserted between the lips of the track to an outer clamping position in which the flanges engage the lips of the track. A knife element is mounted between the plates and is adapted to be moved between an upper position and a lower clamping position.

Abstract: A carriage adapted to be slidably mounted on a track comprises a main body having a pair of retaining elements adapted for lateral movement therein. Each turning element is biased inwardly to allow the carriage to be mounted on and removed from a channel formed in the track. A pivotally mounted knife element is adapted to engage each retaining element thereby moving the retaining element outwardly to a position in which they engage the side edges of the channel formed in the track, thereby securing the carriage to the track.