Abstract: A bench seat system for small motor vehicles, such as small vans, includes at least one seat with a seat upper frame to receive seat cushions and a backrest and with seat feet connected with the seat upper frame for anchoring to the body floor of the motor vehicle. To achieve a modular system from which bench seats with different widths and numbers of seats can be assembled in an economical fashion, the upper frame of the seat is assembled from a plurality of L-shaped pillars spaced apart from one another at seat intervals. The pillars are rigidly connected with one another by a plurality of cross tubes. Each seat is then delimited laterally by two pillars. One seat foot is associated with each seat, being fastened in the area between two pillars on two cross tubes, projecting at right angles from the latter, which cross tubes connect the horizontal legs of the L-shaped pillars with one another.

Abstract: In a vehicle seat tiltable out of its position of use into an access position making it easier to board the vehicle and alight from it, the seat-cushion frame is caught on the vehicle floor by catching claws. To change the seat over into its access position, the backrest held pivotably on the seat-cushion frame first has to be swung down from its erected position of use onto the top face of the seat cushion. An actuating mechanism is coupled to the backrest in such a way that this tilting movement gives rise to a swinging-out movement of the catching claws from the floor mounting. The catching claws are changed over into a masked position safe against causing injury and, in the swung-up seat position, remain in this masked position. When the vehicle seat is tilted back, at the end of the return movement of the backrest the catching claws are released via the actuating mechanism and thereupon automatically swing into the floor mounting.

Abstract: A vehicle passenger seat located adjacent to the driver is equipped with a backrest and can be swung past the dashboard of a motor vehicle by first pivoting the backrest forward, a rearward sliding movement being superimposed on the pivoting movement because a bracket receiving the backrest pivotably is provided with a guide device and a displacement of the bracket together with the backrest is produced by means of a supporting lever arrangement.

Abstract: A vehicle passenger seat located adjacent to the driver is equipped with a backrest and can be swung past the dashboard of a motor vehicle by first pivoting the backrest forward, a rearward sliding movement being superimposed on the pivoting movement because a bracket receiving the backrest pivotably is provided with a guide device and a displacement of the bracket together with the backrest is produced by means of a supporting lever arrangement.