DCxPatent: Pivoting rear seat for open cab on next truck

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For all those truck owners, check this out. Coming soon.

Steve
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Link: http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=...aimlerchrysler[/size]

Flip seat arrangement having upper seat back pivot


Abstract: A rear seat assembly of a passenger cabin of a pick-up truck includes a rear seat cushion and a rear seat back, each rotatable such that a bottom surface of the rotated rear seat back can rest upon a rear end of the rotated seat cushion to provide a storage space beneath the rotated seat back and between the rotated seat cushion and a rear wall of the passenger cabin. The cargo bed of the truck may be extended into the storage space by providing an access door thereto in a front wall of the cargo bed in communication with a corresponding opening in the rear wall of the passenger cabin.

United States Patent 6,837,531 Mack , et al. January 4, 2005
Site: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html