Adjusting device for releasably holding a pair of components at a selected position one relative to the other

Abstract

Abstract AN ADJUSTING DEVICE TO BE USED, FOR EXAMPLE, TO RELEASABLY HOLD THE BRACKREST OF AN AUTOMOBILE SEAT AT AN ADJUSTED ANGULAR POSITION WITH RESPECT TO A LOWER SEAT PORTION, THEREOF. THE DEVICE INCLUDES A PAIR OF COMPONENTS ONE OF WHICH IS MOVABLE RELATIVE TO THE OTHER AND IS TO BE FIXED AT AN ADJUSTED POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE OTHER COMPONENT. A PAIR OF LOCK MEANS COACT WITH THESE COMPONENTS FOR RELEASABLY HOLDING THEM IN A SELECTED POSITION ONE WITH RESPECT TO THE OTHER. ONE OF THE LOCK MEANS IS MOVABLE TO AND FROM A LOCKING POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE OTHER LOCK MEANS, AND A MANUALLY OPERABLE MEANS COACTS WITH THIS ONE LOCK MEANS FOR DISPLACING IT BETWEEN LOCKING AND UNLOCKING POSITIONS. HOWEVER, THIS ONE LOCK MEANS IS CAPABLE OF AUTOMATICALLY RETURNING FROM ITS UNLOCKING POSITION TO ITS LOCKING POSITION, INDEPENDENTLY OF THE MANUALLY OPERABLE MEANS, IN RESPONSE TO A SPEED OF MOVEMENT OF ONE OF THE COMPONENTS RELATIVE TO THE OTHER WHICH IS GREATER THAN A PREDETERMINED SPEED. THERE- FORE, IF, WHEN THE ONE LOCK MEANS IS IN ITS UNLOCKING POSITION, ONE OF THE COMPONENTS SHOULD SUDDENLY MOVE AT HIGH SPEED RELATIVE TO THE OTHER, THE ONE LOCK MEANS WILL AUTOMATICALLY REASSUME ITS LOCKING POSITION TO PREVENT THE HIGH-SPEED MOVEMENT OF THE ONE COMPONENT.

Inventors

• 👤 Eberhard Faust

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