Locking armrest support assembly
CA 2219500 C · Owner: Lewczyk, Ronald S. · Inventors: Taylor, Philip A.; Gass, Paul E.; Lewczyk, Ronald S.
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The apparatus provides a locking mechanism for an armrest of an automobile or similar motor vehicle to a structural pin or post. The mechanism includes a cap with a lateral slit into which a button and spring are assembled. The spring outwardly biases the button which is limited in its outward travel by a detent arrangement which maintains the outer portion of the button flush with the cap. In this arrangement, the spring further engages a circumferential slot on the structural pin or post thereby locking the armrest to the structural pin or post. However in, order to remove the armrest from the structural pin or post the user pushes thebutton inwardly, thereby compressing the spring and …
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- Filed October 28, 1997 and granted October 17, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 28, 2017.
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