Patent ID: 6116183
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: A47C,B63B

Abstract:
A locking pedestal seat assembly for recreational boats, comprising:a seat mount shaped to support a seat member thereon;a rigid extension having an upper end thereof connected with said seat mount, and a lower end thereof having a laterally extending lock member to prevent longitudinal dislodgment of said extension and contemporaneously lock said seat mount in a predetermined rotational position; anda two-part locking base assembly configured to mount said extension and said seat mount at a variety of different locations in an associated boat, including:a base shaped to be mounted on a surface of the boat in one of a plurality of different rotational positions, and including a first rotational register, and a centrally positioned socket defined by an enclosed sidewall with a lock aperture which extends laterally therethrough and is shaped to receive a portion of said lock member therein; andan insert having a sidewall with an interior surface shaped to closely receive the lower end of said extension therein, and an exterior surface shaped to be closely received in the socket of said base member; said insert including a second rotational register shaped to engage said first rotational register and rotationally lock said base and insert together in one of a plurality of different predetermined positions, and at least two knock-out windows extending through the sidewall thereof in a marginally spaced apart relationship, and shaped to receive a portion of said lock member therein, with associated knock-out plugs enclosing at least major portions of said knock-out windows to prevent engagement with said lock member, whereby said insert is received in said socket in one of said plurality of different predetermined rotational positions, with engagement between said first and second rotational registers aligning the lock aperture in said base with one of the knock-out windows in said insert, such that removal of the knock-out plug associated with said one knock-out window forms an assembled lock aperture in the sidewalls of said insert and said base in which said lock member is received to lock said seat mount in said predetermined rotational position and prevent inadvertent dislodgment of said extension from said base.