Abstract: A hinge arm adapted to be attached to a vehicular seat back is pivotally connected to a bracket adapted to be attached to the seat cushion and normally is held in a fixed position by virtue of a pivoted latch on the arm engaging a fixed latch plate on the bracket. The latch and the latch plate are formed with engageable latching faces which cause a heel on the latch to wedge into a pocket in the latch plate and prevent chucking of the seat back. The latching faces are curved on different radii and about different centers in order to maintain tight engagement between the two latching faces and to keep the heel wedged into the pocket as the latching faces wear.

Abstract: The invention provides an actuating linkage assembly tolerance compensating system comprising means for establishing a final linkage pivot location at the end of assembly operations. The incomplete assembly is located with one end of a link in a piercing die press fixture oriented relative to connecting linkage to provide required final operating handle position.