Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle seat crossmember comprising: a tubular base body and receptacle section arranged on the base body for the torsion-free arrangement of a coupling element. In order to provide a motor vehicle seat cross-section that can be economically produced and that has a low weight and a high strength, it is provided that the receptacle section has a reinforcing tube that is arranged coaxial to the base body and lies on its inner or outer surface, and a cross-section deviating from a circle that is produced by joint deformation, especially cold formation, of the base body and the reinforcing tube.

Abstract: A guide bush for an adjustable length column for chairs, tables or the like is provided, in its inner portion, with a slide bush concentric of a central longitudinal axis for the guidance of a cylindrical housing of a gas spring. The outside wall of the slide bush is provided with spaced ribs for the reception and support, radial to the axis, in an upright tube of the column. The ribs are elastically deformable radially to the central longitudinal axis.