Patent ID: 7234666
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
1. A method of forming an open passenger cabin for an aircraft, comprising: providing an aircraft with a passenger cabin having a single aisle and a plurality of rows of seats on each side of the aisle, and a plurality of overhead storage bins over the plurality of rows of seats on each side of the single aisle, each of the overhead storage bins including fixed upper shrouds and movable lower buckets having curved fronts facing toward the single aisle, each of the movable lower buckets including a latch operating mechanism positioned on a center portion of a curved inner surface of the curved front; operatively connecting operating handles on the center portion of each of the curved fronts with the latch operating mechanisms on the curved inner surface of the curved front; and mounting in each of the movable lower buckets removable substantially flat bottom plates on the curved inner surfaces of the curved fronts to form substantially flat surfaces to support items, the removable substantially flat bottom plates positioned over the center portion to cover the latch operating mechanisms.