Patent ID: 7434884

Claim:
A forwardly movable vehicle seat with an underframe comprising a longitudinal adjusting device comprising two pairs of rails, two catch devices and one actuation lever for actuating the catch devices, with a seat pan carried by said underframe, with a seat back that is hinged to said underframe and pivots around a seat back axis, a disengagement lever being disposed at the seat back for unlocking a normally locked stop device of said seat back if said disengagement lever is brought in an actuated state in which actuated state said seat back is pivotal from the normal position to a forwardly tilted position and, once said seat back is in the forwardly tilted position, said catch devices are unlocked and the seat is free to be moved from an initial position to a forwardly moved position, and with a memory mechanism being attached to the seat and providing a stop at the initial position and the seat, when being pushed back, cannot be pushed back from the forwardly moved position beyond the initial position, which memory mechanism comprises a lockable rotary drum, a flat spiral spring associated with said rotary drum and pull means, said pull means being fastened at a first end in a front region of a floor rail of a pair of rails and at a second end to said rotary drum, said rotary drum being assigned to a seat rail associated to said floor rail, and said rotary drum being rotatable about an axis extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of said pair of rails, wherein the pull means substantially extends in the longitudinal direction of said pair of rails, that a stretching element is provided around which the pull means is laid in a U-shape and that an elastic stretching device is provided for pulling the stretching element away from the rotary drum and the pull means remains tense even if the seat is being moved forward.