| CPC B60R 19/52 (2013.01) [B60N 2/32 (2013.01)] | 6 Claims |
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1. A vehicle mounted chair assembly for facilitating law enforcement officers to seat a perpetrator on a front end of an emergency vehicle during an investigation, said assembly comprising:
a grille guard being mountable to a front end of a vehicle;
a back rest being integrated into said grille guard such that said back rest extends upwardly in front of said series of members of said grille guard; and
a chair being pivotally coupled to said back rest, said chair being positionable in a deployed position having said chair lying on a horizontal plane wherein said chair is configured to have an occupant being seated on said chair, said chair being positionable in a stored position having said chair resting against, said back rest;
wherein said grille guard has a series of members being horizontally oriented and being spaced apart from each other, series of members including a lowermost member; and
wherein said back rest comprises a plurality of first members extending between a pair of second members, each of said first members being horizontally oriented, said pair of second members being vertically oriented, said first members being spaced apart from each other and being distributed along a full length of said pair of second members, said plurality of first members including a bottom member and a top member, said bottom member being integrated into said lowermost member of said series of members of said grille guard;
wherein said chair comprises
a frame having a primary member and a secondary member each extending between a pair of outward members, each of said primary member and said secondary member being aligned with a respective end of said outward members such that said frame defines a rectangle,
a hinge comprising a first portion pivotally engaging a second portion, said first portion being coupled to said primary member, said second portion being coupled to said bottom member associated with said plurality of first members of said back rest such that said frame is hingedly retained on said bottom member, said frame lying on a plane being perpendicularly oriented with said back rest when said chair is in said deployed position, said frame resting against said back rest when said chair is in said stored position, and
a pair of clips, each of said clips comprising a ring extending around said secondary member, each of said clips comprising a curved member being coupled to and extending away from said ring, said curved member having a distal end with respect to said ring, said curved member being curved between said ring and said distal end thereby facilitating said curved member to extend around said top member of said back rest when said chair is positioned in said stored position for retaining said chair in said stored position.
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